This collection brings queer theory into dialogue with biblical scholarship, showing the complexity of queer biblical studies in all its dimensions of not only sexuality, but of gender, race, class, nationality, and ethnicity.

Teresa J. Hornsby is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Drury University. She is the author of "Sex Texts from the Bible" (Skylight Paths, 2007). Ken Stone is Academic Dean and Professor of Bible, Culture and Hermeneutics at Chicago Theological Seminary. He is the author of "Sex, Honor and Power in the Deuteronomistic History" (Sheffield Academic Press, 1996) and "Practicing Safer Texts: Food, Sex and Bible in Queer Perspective" (T&T Clark, 2005) and editor of "Queer Commentary and the Hebrew Bible" (Sheffield/Pilgrim, 2001).