Queerer Meals: Paul and Communal Anti-Norms in Corinth

This article employs two strategies to understand Paul’s dissatisfaction with the meal practice of the Corinthian assembly in 1 Corinthians 11:17-31. First, it uses a form of queer reading to interrogate the text for its assumptions about normativity and deviance. Second, it puts the Corinthian meal...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Eric C. Smith
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Sheffield 2021-01-01
Series:Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies
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Online Access:https://hcommons.org/deposits/view/hc:34444/CONTENT/6-smith-queerer-meals-jibs-2.2-2021-118-137.pdf/