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Queering the Ethiopian Eunuch

Strategies of Ambiguity in Acts

by Sean D. Burke

  • Paperback
  • 192 pages
  • Publisher: Fortress Press,U.S.
  • 15.5 x 22.9 x 1.2 cm

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Were eunuchs more usually castrated guardians of the harem, as florid Orientalist portraits imagine them, or were they trusted court officials who may never have been castrated? Was the Ethiopian eunuch a Jew or a Gentile, a slave or a free man? Why does Luke call him a "man" while contemporaries referred to eunuchs as "unmanned" beings? As Sean D. Burke treats questions that have received dramatically different answers over the centuries of Christian interpretation, he shows that eunuchs bore particular stereotyped associations regarding gender and sexual status as well as of race, ethnicity, and class. Not only has Luke failed to resolve these ambiguities; he has positioned this destabilized figure at a key place in the narrative - as the gospel has expanded beyond Judea, but before Gentiles are explicitly named - in such a way as to blur a number of social role boundaries. In this sense, Burke argues, Luke intended to "queer" his reader's expectations and so to present the boundary-transgressing potentiality of a new community.
Queering the Ethiopian Eunuch and The Letters to the Seven Churches of Asia in Their Local Setting
The Letters to the Seven Churches of Asia in Their Local SettingQueering the Ethiopian Eunuch

  • Author

    Sean D. Burke

  • Book Format

    Paperback / softback

  • Publisher

    Fortress Press,U.S.

  • Published

    August 2013

  • Weight

    296g

  • Page Count

    192

  • Dimensions

    15.5 x 22.9 x 1.2 cm

  • ISBN

    9781451465655

  • ISBN-10

    1451465653

  • Eden Code

    4247238

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