• ISBN13: 9780190213398
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: N/A
• Publisher: Oxford Univ PR
• Publisher Imprint: Oxford Univ PR
• Publication Date: November 7, 2019
• Pages: 736
• Original Price: USD 205.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 1407 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): General

Over several decades, scholarship in New Testament and early Christianity has drawn attention both to the ways in which ancient Mediterranean conceptions of embodiment, sexual difference, and desire were fundamentally different from modern ones and also to important lines of genealogical connection between the past and the present. The result is that the study of "gender" and "sexuality" in early Christianity has become an increasingly complex undertaking. This is a complexity produced not only by the intricacies of conflicting historical data, but also by historicizing approaches that query the very terms of analysis whereby we inquire into these questions in the first place. Yet at the same time, recent work on these topics has produced a rich and nuanced body of scholarly literature that has contributed substantially to our understanding of early Christian history and also proved relevant to ongoing theological and social debates. The Oxford Handbook of Gender and Sexuality in the New Testament provides a roadmap to this lively scholarly landscape, introducing both students and other scholars to the relevant problems, debates, and issues. Leading scholars in the field offer original contributions by way of synthesis, critical interrogation, and proposals for future questions, hypotheses, and research trajectories.

Benjamin H. Dunning earned a PhD in the Study of Religion from Harvard University and then joined the Fordham faculty in 2006.He teaches primarily in the areas of Christianity in Antiquity, critical theory, and gender and sexuality studies. He currently chairs the Board of Directors for Fordham University Press and serves an Associate Editor for the Journal of Early Christian Studies.