Universalism and Particularism at Sodom and Gomorrah

This book reexamines the Sodom and Gomorrah narrative in Genesis 1819 an ethically charged text that has significantly influenced views about homosexuality stereotyping the other the rewards and risks of hospitality and the justice owed to outsiders. Its twelve essays reflecting their authors'' considerable geographical religious methodological and academic diversity explore this troubling text through the lens of universalism and particularism. Biblical Sodom is read as the site of multiple bordersfluid porous and bi-directionalbetween similar and different men and angels men and women fathers and daughters insiders and outsiders hosts and guests residents and aliens chosen and nonchosen and people and God. Readers of these exegetically and theologically attentive essays published in memory of Ron Pirson will experience a rare sense of an ancient text being read in and for the modern world. The contributors are Calum Carmichael Diana Lipton William John Lyons Nathan MacDonald Amira Meir Yitzhak (Itzik) Peleg T. A. Perry Ron Pirson Jonathan D. Safren Megan Warner Harlan J. Wechsler and Ellen J. van Wolde.