Trans Biblical

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)><em>Trans Biblical</em> provides some of the most exciting new scholarly work in trans biblical interpretation to help us better understand our Bibles our bodies and one another in a fraught and fractious world.</strong></p><p></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Trans Biblical: New Approaches to Interpretation and Embodiment in Scripture</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> offers a collection of wide-ranging essays exploring key issues animating trans biblical interpretation from a variety of angles and emphases. Contributors who themselves represent a range of gender identities answer the question what makes a biblical reading trans or a trans reading biblical? in diverse and exciting ways. They also promote new ways of thinking about gender variation in the ancient world while more sensitively and critically addressing ongoing debates about gender and embodiment.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>This collection is a helpful entrée into how biblical readers and interpreters can make new more creative reflexive and accountable connections to influential texts and traditions. It represents a historic effort to situate expand and elaborate on the current trajectories of trans biblical interpretation. Gender variance is as old as stories about creation and biblical texts are more variable than we have been trained to see. They disrupt present-day assumptions of a simple and stable gender binary often deployed against trans nonbinary and gender nonconforming people. Taking us from Genesis through the Gospels and epistles and into rabbinic and early Christian scriptural engagement </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Trans Biblical</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> sharpens our awareness of what is </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>in</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> these texts and builds up our capacities for what can be done </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>with</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> our encounter with biblical texts and traditions. In short the work of the scholars gathered in this one convenient collection meets an important even urgent need by providing a range of entry points and approaches to biblical texts and traditions in a contextually and theoretically nuanced fashion.</span></p><p></p>