Abraham-Ibrahim-‘-DOORSTEP-WORKLRICOEURIAN-HERMENEUTICS-QUEER-HERMENEUTICS-AND-SCRIPTURE
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‘ON THE DOORSTEP OF THE WORK’
RICOEURIAN HERMENEUTICS, QUEER HERMENEUTICS, AND SCRIPTURE
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This article explores Ricoeur’s rhetorical question, ‘if I make believers scribes, will it be long before I make
them literary critics?’ by analysing Ricoeur’s three-stage biblical hermeneutics through the perspective of
queer theory and queer criticism of the Bible and the Qur’an . The article offers an overview of the state of
queer theory in the context of scriptural criticism and an analysis of Ricoeur’s hermeneutic system, before
engaging with queer readings of scripture from scriptural scholars and theologians. Acknowledging the
tension between queer theorists in the academy, activists and individuals, this article also draws on thescriptural hermeneutics of the queer activist organisations, QUIT, Queer Jihad and the Rainbow Sash
movement, suggesting that their creative scriptural appropriations can enliven Ricoeurian hermeneutics.
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Cite this article as: Abraham, Ibrahim. 2007. ‘“On the doorstep of the work”: Ricoeurian hermeneutics,queer hermeneutics, and scripture’. The Bible and Critical Theory 3 (1). pp. 4.1–4.12. DOI: 10.2104/bc070004.
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