The book introduces students and researchers to key methodologies in biblical interpretation.
A new book chapter on queer interpretation, focused on interpreting biblical texts, was recently published by Lynn Huber, professor of religious studies.
The chapter appears in a collection, “What Then Does This Text Mean?: Approaches to Critical Biblical Interpretation,” edited by Steven McKenzie and John Kaltner and published by Westminster/John Knox Press. The book introduces students and researchers to key methodologies in biblical interpretation and offers examples of how they are used. In her chapter, Huber uses queer ideas about history to bring Revelation 11, which describes the death and resurrection of two witnesses, into conversation with the lives, deaths, and afterlives of Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera.
Johnson and Rivera were activists who advocated for the rights of trans people, queers of color and sex workers. Both were associated with the Stonewall Uprising of 1969.