A Thousand Tiny Sexes, a Trillion Tiny Jesuses, and the Queer Gospel of Mark

Queer theory’s standard origin story centers on Michel Foucault, Judith Butler, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, and Teresa de Lauretis. This article proceeds down a less-traveled road, one yet to be explored in biblical studies. Like standard queer theory, this trajectory’s roots are also in French thought—n...

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Autor principal:	Stephen D. Moore
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Publicado:	University of Sheffield 2021
Materias:	queer theory queer hermeneutics gospel of mark gilles deleuze félix guattari The Bible BS1-2970
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:9b64651015204d2eab9af5aa09cdbbbe2021-11-18T14:47:02ZA Thousand Tiny Sexes, a Trillion Tiny Jesuses, and the Queer Gospel of Mark2633-069510.17613/rdyr-xh46https://doaj.org/article/9b64651015204d2eab9af5aa09cdbbbe2021-01-01T00:00:00Zhttps://hcommons.org/deposits/view/hc:34446/CONTENT/7-s-d-moore-a-thousand-tiny-sexes-jibs-2.2-2021-138-168.pdf/https://doaj.org/toc/2633-0695Queer theory’s standard origin story centers on Michel Foucault, Judith Butler, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, and Teresa de Lauretis. This article proceeds down a less-traveled road, one yet to be explored in biblical studies. Like standard queer theory, this trajectory’s roots are also in French thought—not that of Foucault or Jacques Lacan, however, but of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari. The difference this makes is considerable, yielding, among other things, a concept of the gendered body that is neither discursive (à la Foucault) nor performative (à la Butler) but virtual; a concept of sexuality that exceeds the human/nonhuman binary no less than the heterosexual/homosexual binary; and an alternative version of the antisocial thesis in queer theory that precedes Lee Edelman’s influential Lacanian version by more than thirty years, namely, Guy Hocquenghem’s Deleuzoguattarian version. How might all or any of this translate into queer biblical reading? Addressing this question through an extended analysis of the Gospel of Mark is the principal project of this article.Stephen D. MooreUniversity of Sheffieldarticlequeer theoryqueer hermeneuticsgospel of markgilles deleuzefélix guattariThe BibleBS1-2970ENJournal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies, Vol 2, Iss 2, Pp 138-168 (2021)
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description	Queer theory’s standard origin story centers on Michel Foucault, Judith Butler, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, and Teresa de Lauretis. This article proceeds down a less-traveled road, one yet to be explored in biblical studies. Like standard queer theory, this trajectory’s roots are also in French thought—not that of Foucault or Jacques Lacan, however, but of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari. The difference this makes is considerable, yielding, among other things, a concept of the gendered body that is neither discursive (à la Foucault) nor performative (à la Butler) but virtual; a concept of sexuality that exceeds the human/nonhuman binary no less than the heterosexual/homosexual binary; and an alternative version of the antisocial thesis in queer theory that precedes Lee Edelman’s influential Lacanian version by more than thirty years, namely, Guy Hocquenghem’s Deleuzoguattarian version. How might all or any of this translate into queer biblical reading? Addressing this question through an extended analysis of the Gospel of Mark is the principal project of this article.
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A Thousand Tiny Sexes, a Trillion Tiny Jesuses, and the Queer Gospel of Mark

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