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100	1		_aBurke, Sean D.
245	1	0	_aQueering the Ethiopian eunuch : _bstrategies of ambiguity in Acts / _cSean D. Burke.
260			_aminneapolis _bfortress press _c2013
300			_av, 195 pages ; _c23 cm.
490	1		_aEmerging scholars
500			_aRevision of author's dissertation from the Graduate Theological Union.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 153-183) and indexes.
520	8		_a"Were eunuchs castrated guardians of the harem, 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? Examining a volatile figure in a key place in the narrative of Luke-Acts, Sean D. Burke pulls at questions that have received dramatically different answers over the centuries of Christian interpretation, showing that eunuchs bore particular stereotyped associations regarding gender and sexual status as well as of race, ethnicity, and class. In this innovative book, Burke argues that Luke intended to "queer" his readers expectations to present the boundary-transgressing potentiality of a new community."--Page 4 of cover.
630	0	0	_aBible. _xCriticism, interpretation, etc.
650		0	_aEunuchs _xReligious aspects.
650		0	_aAmbiguity in the Bible.
830		0	_aEmerging scholars.
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