Class topics could include \u2018questions of sexuality, gender identity, and queer hermeneutics, queer time, queer affect, and queer pleasure in the Bible.\u2019<\/h5>\n\n\n\nThe class professor is the author of a book alleging that \u2018prophetic masculinity is queer masculinity.\u2019<\/h5>\n\n\n\n![\"Article](\"https:\/\/img.campusreform.org\/eyJidWNrZXQiOiJjYW1wdXMucmVmb3JtIiwia2V5IjoiMjc3MTIvMzc0OWU1ODUtNmVjMi00NjMyLTk2ZjAtMzdhZjNiM2I0ZTgzLmpwZWciLCJlZGl0cyI6eyJncmF5c2NhbGUiOmZhbHNlLCJyZXNpemUiOnsid2lkdGgiOjEwMDB9fX0=\")
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The University of Richmond in Virginia offers a \u201cQueer Bible\u201d religious course. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The class<\/a> \u201cbrings together queer theory, sexuality, and the Bible in order to explore what it means to \u2018queer\u2019 the Bible and biblical interpretations.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n[RELATED: Musical at Harvard portrays Judas as a gay individual who falls in love with Jesus]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\nClass readings \u201cinclude both biblical texts and queer and trans scholarship on the Bible. Topics may include questions of sexuality, gender identity, and queer hermeneutics, queer time, queer affect, and queer pleasure in the Bible.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The class is taught<\/a> by Professor Rhiannon Graybill<\/a>, a Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies Advisory Board Member at the university. <\/p>\n\n\n\nGraybill is also the author of \u201cAre We Not Men?: Unstable Masculinity in the Hebrew Prophets,\u201d a book that \u201cputs the biblical prophets in conversation with contemporary sources such as poetry, film, and gender theory to demonstrate that prophetic masculinity is queer masculinity.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Other colleges have had courses and events with similar themes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The University of Central Florida, for example, is hosting<\/a> a \u201cQueer Christian Fellowship\u201d that will meet until April 24 and that allows students to participate in \u201cdiscussion groups around the topic \u2018Queer Interpretation of Scripture.\u2019\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
By Justin Choi<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The University of Richmond in Virginia offers a \u201cQueer Bible\u201d religious course. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The class<\/a> \u201cbrings together queer theory, sexuality, and the Bible in order to explore what it means to \u2018queer\u2019 the Bible and biblical interpretations.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n [RELATED: Musical at Harvard portrays Judas as a gay individual who falls in love with Jesus]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Class readings \u201cinclude both biblical texts and queer and trans scholarship on the Bible. Topics may include questions of sexuality, gender identity, and queer hermeneutics, queer time, queer affect, and queer pleasure in the Bible.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n The class is taught<\/a> by Professor Rhiannon Graybill<\/a>, a Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies Advisory Board Member at the university. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Graybill is also the author of \u201cAre We Not Men?: Unstable Masculinity in the Hebrew Prophets,\u201d a book that \u201cputs the biblical prophets in conversation with contemporary sources such as poetry, film, and gender theory to demonstrate that prophetic masculinity is queer masculinity.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Other colleges have had courses and events with similar themes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The University of Central Florida, for example, is hosting<\/a> a \u201cQueer Christian Fellowship\u201d that will meet until April 24 and that allows students to participate in \u201cdiscussion groups around the topic \u2018Queer Interpretation of Scripture.\u2019\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n