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Transgender & Reading Genesis Backwards
 - We have seen the curious descriptions of God in Genesis 1 as both plural and singular, "his" image as both male and female. On feminist Trible's reading of the next creation story, the earth creature (ha-adam) is not "sexed" until male (ish) and female (ishah) are created from them.
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- How might trans people read these two stories, given the fluid dynamics in the texts themselves?
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- Teresa Hornsby will introduce us to the premise of trans- readings of biblical texts, and Deryn Guest will provide an example of one. She will read Genesis backwards to the original "formlessness and void, the "darkness... over the face of the deep" at the start of the first (Priestly) creation story (Gen 1:2). The six-day creation account is pictured in the modern illumination to the right, with day 1 imaged as a kind of chaos transformed to order and rest by day 7.
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- Teresa J. Hornsby, "Gender Dualism, or The Big Lie," in Transgender, Intersex, and Biblical Interpretation, 13-19 (course textbook)
- Deryn Guest, "Troubling the Waters: תהום, Transgender, and Reading Genesis Backwards," in Transgender, Intersex, and Biblical Interpretation, 21-44
- online class prep
- Writing Focus:
- The art of quoting (They Say/I Say 43-51)
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- Slides for Lecture
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- Today's Authors
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Teresa J. Hornsby is a Professor of Religion at Drury University and an Affiliated Professor of Religious Studies at Chicago Theological Seminary. Along with her book co-authored with Deryn Guest, she is a co-editor (with Ken Stone) of Bible Trouble: Queer Reading at the Boundaries of Biblical Scholarship, and author of Sex Texts from the Bible, as well as numerous essays, chapters, and encyclopedia entries. |
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Deryn Guest is a Senior Lecturer in Hermeneutics at the University of Birmingham in the UK. The focus of her work is lesbian, transgender and queer interpretations of scripture, particularly how masculinity and femininity are not always constructed in the clear binary form people often attribute to the biblical text. |
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- Further Reading
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- Cornwall, Susannah M. Controversies in Queer Theology. London: SCM Press, 2011.
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- --------. Un/Familiar Theology: Reconceiving Sex, Reproduction and Generativity. London, Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2017.
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- Cornwall Susannah M., eds. Intersex, Theology and the Bible: Troubling Bodies in Church, Text and Society. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
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- Hornsby, Teresa J. and Ken Stone, eds. Bible Trouble: Queer Reading at the Boundaries of Biblical Scholarship, Semeia Studies 67. Boston: Brill, 2011.
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- Guest, Deryn. Beyond Feminist Biblical Studies. Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2012.
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- --------. When Deborah Met Jael: Lesbian Biblical Hermeneutics. London: SCM Press, 2005.
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- Stone, Ken. Practicing Safer Texts: Food, Sex and Bible in Queer Perspective. New York: T&T Clark, 2005.
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