Students ‘queer’ the Bible for credit

Students ‘queer’ the Bible for credit

• Pomona College students can earn one credit by taking "Queer Theory and the Bible."
• “This process of queering will allow and require us to approach the biblical text in new ways," the course description states.

Pomona College in California is offering a class to students on "queering" the Bible.
“Queer Theory and the Bible” will teach students how to read the Bible “through queer theory,” by examining excerpts that are “central to prohibitions on homosexuality,” as well as “discourses of heteronormativity” through which “homophobic readings of the Bible” are born..."
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