Queer themes in the Book of Jonah and its contemporary analogues

BS The Bible

Ross, Samuel J. ; Nicholson, Sarah

University:University of Glasgow

Department:School of Critical Studies

关键词: Jonah, Biblical Studies, Queer, Queer reading, Bible and literature, Bible and culture, Hebrew Bible.;   

Others  :  http://theses.gla.ac.uk/41220/7/2019rossmth.pdf

来源: University of Glasgow

【 摘 要 】

This thesis aims to produce a queer reading of the book of Jonah, focusing on themes of loneliness, abuse, and oppression. This is achieved through the construction of an interdisciplinary methodology which combines literary biblical interpretation, queer theory, and sociological research on the experiences of LGBT+ people.The thesis also brings the biblical text into conversation with artefacts of queer culture dating from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries in order to form a reflexive dialogue which illuminates both queer experience and the biblical narrative itself.In doing so, this thesis is intended to demonstrate that queer ways of being can be seen represented in biblical texts, even when the texts do not explicitly depict queer characters.