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Queering the Ethiopian eunuch : strategies of ambiguity in Acts by Sean D. Burke is a religious work available to read on EtoBox.
What is Queering the Ethiopian eunuch : strategies of ambiguity in Acts about?
<p>Were eunuchs more usually castrated guardians of the harem, as florid Orientalist portraits imagine them, 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? As Sean D. Burke treats questions that have received dramatically different answers over the centuries of Christian interpretation, he shows that eunuchs bore pa
Who reads Queering the Ethiopian eunuch : strategies of ambiguity in Acts?
It is typically read by readers engaging with religious study and devotional practice.
Common subject areas: religion, theology.
- Author
- Sean D. Burke
- Publisher
- Fortress Press
- Published
- 2013
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781451465655
- Category
- religious
- Subjects
- Religion, Christian, Bible
- Updated
- 2026-03-25