T&t Clark Handbook of Sexualities in the Bible and Its Reception

This volume explores the range and richness of sexualities evoked in the biblical texts and their reception history. Contributors utilise theoretical and hermeneutical approaches to engage with different aspects of sexualities in/and the Bible, including the beliefs, behaviours, and bodies that haunt both the texts and their interpretive traditions.
The contributors cover themes that have previously been subject to much debate in biblical scholarship, such as LGBTQI+ identities, heterosexuality, marriage, sexual violence, and circumcision, but it also engages with issues that tend to receive less scholarly attention, including asexuality, homoeroticism, voyeurism, sex work, masturbation, menstruation, pornography, disability, mental health, and reproductive justice. Written from a diversity of disciplinary perspectives, including biblical studies, sexuality studies, theology, religious studies, gender studies, cultural studies, disability studies, psychology and philosophy, each chapter offers fresh, and at times surprising, insights about sexualities in/and the Bible and its reception history.

Chris Greenough is a Professor of Social Sciences at Edge Hill University. His research interests are sexuality, Christian theology and the Bible. He has published the following monographs: Undoing Theology (2018), Queer Theologies: The Basics (2019), The Bible and Sexual Violence Against Men (2020) and a special edition of the Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies (Bible and Queer Theory, 2021).
Caroline Blyth is a writer, editor, and researcher based in New Zealand. She has a passion for researching gender-based violence, sexuality and crime in the Bible and its cultural afterlives. Her monographs include The Narrative of Rape in Genesis 34 (2010), Reimagining Delilah's Afterlives as Femme Fatale (2017), and Rape Culture, Purity Culture, and Coercive Control in Teen Girl Bibles (2021). She has also co-edited a number of volumes that focus on the Bible, gender, and sexuality.