Thursday, December 28, 2017

The "Really" File - ("Queering" What?)

Actually there is no confusion about Gender with God....But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female. Mark 10:6

"Swarthmore College is offering a course next year that will survey “queer and trans readings of biblical texts” by using “queer and trans theoretical approaches,” with faculty staying silent on the specifics of the course material.

Queering the Bible” is set to launch next fall and will be instructed by Gwynn Kessler, an associate professor of religion, according to Swarthmore’s course catalog.
The course, which is being offered through Swarthmore’s Religion Department, promises to “[introduce] students to the complexity of constructions of sex, gender, and identity in one of the most influential literary works produced in ancient times.”

From the "Really" File
By reading the Bible with the methods of queer and trans* theoretical approaches,” the catalog advertises, “this class destabilizes long held assumptions about what the bible–and religion–says about gender and sexuality.”
It appears that the Swarthmore Religion Department will offer no other Bible-centric courses next fall apart from this one. Out of around ten listed courses that explicitly involve Bible study at Swarthmore, “Queering the Bible” appears to be the only one taking place in fall of 2018."
Pulpit&Pen
REALLY?