A new article I wrote was recently published in The Bible and Critical Theory. It is titled “Rethinking the Gay Centurion: Sexual Exceptionalism, National Exceptionalism in Readings of Matt. 8:5-13//Luke 7:1-10”. You can find it online here: http://novaojs.newcastle.edu.au/ojsbct/index.php/bct/article/view/614
Read the article...As part of my forthcoming, and long gestating, project on homonormative and heteronormative interpretations of the Healing of the Centurion’s Slave, I endeavoured to collect all references to publications referring to possible sexual subtexts to the passage (Matthew 8:5-13//Luke 7:1-10). One obscure, but important, publication I got my hands on was Tom Horner’s annotated bibliography […]
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