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Rejecting Desire, Erasing Difference
 - Paul exhorts early Christians that gender distinctions no longer matter, and sexual relations are no longer necessary. In subsequent Christian tradition, this became the basis of a long-standing and immensely influential tradition of celibacy, as in the fresco to the right from the apocryphal Acts of Paul and Thecla (Thecla is in the tower listening to Paul preach on virginity).
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- Why did Paul do this, and to what ends? Was he consistent? What implications does this have for gender difference?
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- Queer biblical scholar Dale Martin will be our guide as we examine some of the key biblical texts.
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- Dale Martin, Sex & the Single Savior, 65-90
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- Saying why it matters (They Say/I Say 91-99)
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Dale Martin is Professor Emeritus at the Henry Koerner Center for Emeritus Faculty at Yale University, having taught there and at Rhodes College and Duke University. He has published widely on slavery in early Christianity, gender and sexuality issues, and biblical interpretation more broadly. |
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- Butting, Klara. "Pauline Variations on Genesis 2.24: Speaking of the body of Christ in the Context of the Discussion of Lifestyles," trans. Brian McNeil. Journal for the Study of the New Testament 23:79 (2001) 79-90.
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- Cutler, Caroline Schleier. "New Creation and Inheritance: Inclusion and Full Participation in Paul's Letters to the Galatians and Romans." Priscilla Papers 30:2 (2016) 21-9.
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- Deming, Will. Paul on Marriage and Celibacy: The Hellenistic Background of 1 Corinthians 7, SNTSMS 83. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
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- Gundry-Volf, Judith M. "Affliction for Procreators in the Eschatological Crisis: Paul's Marital Counsel in 1 Corinthians 7.28 and Contraception in Greco-Roman Antiquity." Journal for the Study of the New Testament 39:2 (2016) 141-68.
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- Kahl, Brigitte. "No Longer Male: Masculinity Struggles behind Galatians 3.28?," trans. Brian McNeil. Journal for the Study of the New Testament 23:79 (2001) 37-49.
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- Kartzow, Marianne Bjelland. "'Asking the Other Question': An Intersectional Approach to Galatians 3:28 and the Colossian Household Codes." Biblical Interpretation 18:4-5 (2010) 364-89.
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- Punt, Jeremy. "Power and Liminality, Sex and Gender, and Gal 3:28: A Postcolonial, Queer Reading of an Influential Text." Neotestamentica 44:1 (2010) 140-66.
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- Slater, Jennifer. "'Inclusiveness'–An Authentic Biblical Truth that Negates Distinctions: A Hermeneutic of Gender Incorporation and Ontological Equality in Ancient Christian Thought." Journal of Early Christian History 5:1 (2015) 116-31.
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