Authorizing marriage? : canon, tradition, and critique in the blessing of same-sex unions /
The opponents of legal recognition for same-sex marriage frequently appeal to a "Judeo-Christian" tradition. But does it make any sense to speak of that tradition as a single teaching on marriage? Are there elements in Jewish and Christian traditions that actually authorize religious and c...
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| Language: | English |
| Published: | Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2006. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Mark D. Jordan
- "Surpassing the love of women": another look at 2 Samuel 1:26 and the relationship of David and Jonathan / Saul M. Olyan
- Familiar idolatry and the Christian case against marriage / Dale B. Martin
- Marriage and friendship in the Christian New Testament: ancient resources for contemporary same-sex unions / Mary Ann Tolbert
- Why is Rabbi Yoḥanan a woman? or, a queer marriage gone bad: "platonic love" in the Talmud / Daniel Boyarin
- Can I really count on you? / Laurence Paul Hemming
- Contemplating a Jewish ritual of same-sex union: an inquiry into the meanings of marriage / Steven Greenberg
- Arguing liturgical genealogies, or, the ghosts of weddings past / Mark D. Jordan
- Hooker and the new Puritans / Kathryn Tanner
- Ad imaginem Dei: is there a moral here? / Susan Frank Parsons
- Trinity, marriage, and homosexuality / Eugene F. Rogers Jr.