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Cover 1 Half Title 2 Title Page 4 Copyright Page 5 Dedication 6 Table of Contents 8 Acknowledgements 10 Abbreviations 12 Chapter 1 INTRODUCING SODOM/OLOG/Y: A HOMOSEXUAL READING HETERO-TEXTUALITY 18 1. Motivation: Suicide, Biblical Studies and Social Control 18 2. Reception, Intertextuality, Readers and Politics 19 3. Introducing Sodom and Gibeah 22 4. Assumptions and Objectives 26 5. In Closing 29 Chapter 2 READING SODOM AND GIBEAH 31 1. Disaster, Civil War and Rape 31 2. A Tale of Two Cities 32 3. Further Exploring Rape, Homophobia and the Sin of Sodom 46 4. Conclusion 56 Chapter 3 A SHARED HERITAGE – SODOM AND GIBEAH IN TEMPLE TIMES 59 1. A Prior World of Temples and Texts 59 2. Scriptural Reflections on Sodom and Gibeah 60 3. Philosophy, History and Commentary 78 4. Conclusion 93 Chapter 4 BUT THE MEN OF SODOM WERE WORSE THAN THE MEN OF GIBEAH FOR THE MEN OF GIBEAH ONLY WANTED SEX: SODOM THE CRUEL, GIBEAH AND RABBINIC JUDAISM 96 1. Of Deltas and Backwaters 96 2. In Those Days When There Was No King in Israel 98 3. The Men of Sodom Have No Portion in the World to Come 103 4. Conclusion 130 Chapter 5 TOWARDS SODOMY: SODOM AND GIBEAH IN THE CHRISTIAN ECUMEN 133 1. Rehearsing Sodom

Author

MICHAEL CARDEN

Published

2012

Language

EN