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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Gagnon, Robert A. J., 1958-
The Bible and homosexual practice : texts and hermeneutics / Robert A.J. Gagnon.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-687-02279-7 (alk. paper)
1. Homosexuality—Biblical teaching. I. Title.
BS680.H67 G34 2001
241'.66—dc21
00 049341
ISBN 13: 978-0-687-02279-3
Translations of biblical texts are the authors, unless otherwise noted.
Excerpts from Homoeroticism in the Biblical World, by Martti Nissinen, copyright © 1998, reprinted by permission of Augsburg Fortress.
Excerpts from Out of Order: Homosexuality in the Bible and the Ancient Near East, by Donald J. Wold, copyright © 1998, reprinted by permission of Baker Book House Company.
Excerpts from The Moral Vision of the New Testament, copyright © 1996 by Richard B. Hays, reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers, Inc.
Excerpts from Love Between Women: Early Christian Responses to Female Homoeroticism, by Bernadette J. Brooten, copyright © 1996, reprinted by permission of the University of Chicago Press.
Excerpts from Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality: Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Fourteenth Century, by John Boswell, copyright © 1980, reprinted by permission of the University of Chicago Press.
Excerpts from The Construction of Homosexuality, by David F. Greenberg, copyright © 1988, reprinted by permission of the University of Chicago Press.
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