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A Fuller Bibliography for Homosexuality and the Bible: Two Views

 

Robert A. J. Gagnon, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of New Testament

Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, Pittsburgh, PA 15206

gagnon@pts.edu

 

 

September 2003

 

The “Select Bibliography” in Homosexuality and the Bible: Two Views (co-authored with Dan O. Via) does not contain many of the entries that I submitted to Fortress for inclusion.  Not appearing in this "Fuller Bibliography" are materials cited in Via’s essay or in my online notes that are only tangentially related to the issue of the Bible and homosexual practice.

 

 

Bellis, Alice Ogden, and Terry L. Hufford. 2002. Science, Scripture, and Homosexuality. Cleveland: Pilgrim.

Bigger, Stephen F. 1979. The Family Laws of Leviticus 18 in Their Setting. Journal of Biblical Literature 98:187-203.

Bird, Phyllis A. 1997. The End of the Male Cult Prostitute. Pages 37-80 in Congress Volume Cambridge 1995. Edited by J. A. Emerton. Supplements to Vetus Testamentum 66. Leiden: Brill.

________. 2000. The Bible in Christian Ethical Deliberation Concerning Homosexuality: Old Testament Contributions. Pages 142-76 in Homosexuality, Science, and the “Plain Sense” of Scripture. Edited by D. L. Balch. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans.

Bockmuehl, Markus. 2000. Jewish Law in Gentile Churches: Halakhah and the Beginning of Christian Public Ethics. Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark.

Boswell, John. 1980. Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Boyarin, Daniel. 1995. Are There Any Jews in “The History of Sexuality”? Journal of the History of Sexuality 5:333-55.

Brenner, Athalya. 1997. The Intercourse of Knowledge: On Gendering Desire and ‘Sexuality’ in the Hebrew Bible. Biblical Interpretation Series 26. Leiden: Brill.

Brooten, Bernadette J. 1996. Love Between Women: Early Christian Responses to Female Homoeroticism. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Collins, Raymond F. 2000. Sexual Ethics and the New Testament: Behavior and Belief.  New York: Crossroad.

Countryman, L. William. 1988. Dirt, Greed, and Sex: Sexual Ethics in the New Testament. Philadelphia: Fortress.

Davies, Margaret. 1995. New Testament Ethics and Ours: Homosexuality and Sexuality in Romans 1:26-27. Biblical Interpretation 3:315-31.

De Young, James B. 2000. Homosexuality: Contemporary Claims Examined in Light of the Bible. Grand Rapids: Kregel.

Douglas, Mary. 1979. Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo. London: Routledge.

Dover, Kenneth J. 1978. Greek Homosexuality. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

Duff, Nancy J. 2000. Christian Vocation, Freedom of God, and Homosexuality. Pages 261-77 in Homosexuality, Science, and the “Plain Sense” of Scripture. Edited by D. L. Balch. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans. For critique, see: Gagnon 2000, 216-27.

Edwards, George R. 1984. Gay/Lesbian Liberation: A Biblical Perspective. New York: Pilgrim.

Fowl, Stephen E. 1998. Pages 119-26 in Engaging Scripture. Oxford: Blackwell.

Fredrickson, David E. 2000. Natural and Unnatural Use in Romans 1:24-27: Paul and the Philosophic Critique of Eros. Pages 197-241 in Homosexuality, Science, and the “Plain Sense” of Scripture. Edited by D. L. Balch. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans.

Fretheim, Terence E. 2001. The Old Testament and Homosexuality: What Is God Doing? Pages 54-55 in The Lutheran (May): A fuller 8000-word version is available online at: http://www.thelutheran.org/0105/page55.html.

Furnish, Victor Paul. 1985. The Moral Teaching of Paul: Texts and Hermeneutics. 2d ed. Nashville: Abingdon.

________. 1994. The Bible and Homosexuality: Reading the Texts in Context. Pages 18-35 in Homosexuality in the Church: Both Sides of the Debate. Edited by J. Siker. Louisville: Westminster John Knox.

Gagnon, Robert A. J. 2000. A Comprehensive and Critical Review Essay of Homosexuality, Science, and the ‘Plain Sense’ of Scripture, Part 1.” Horizons in Biblical Theology 22: 174-243. [Part 2 forthcoming in the Dec. 2003 issue.]

________. 2001a. The Bible and Homosexual Practice: Texts and Hermeneutics (Nashville: Abingdon, 2001). For reviews of this book, and Gagnon’s reviews of the some of the reviewers, see http://www.robgagnon.net/Reviews.htm

________. 2001b. The Bible and Homosexual Practice: Theology, Analogies, and Genes. Theology Matters 7, no. 6 (Nov/Dec 2001): 1-13. Online: http://www.theologymatters.com/TMIssues/NovDec01.PDF.

________. 2002a. Are There Universally Valid Sex Precepts? A Critique of Walter Wink’s Views on the Bible and Homosexuality. Horizons in Biblical Theology 24: 72-125.

________. 2002b. Gays and the Bible: A Response to Walter Wink. Christian Century 119, no. 17 (Aug. 14-27): 40-43. [A response to Wink 2000a.] Online: http://www.robgagnon.net/Reviews/homoWinkExchanges.pdf.

________. 2002c. A Response to Walter Wink’s Christian Century Review of The Bible and Homosexual Practice. [Original, fuller version of Gagnon 2002b.] 15 pages. Online: http://www.robgagnon.net/articles/gagnon3.pdf.

________. 2002d. A Rejoinder to Walter Wink’s Views on the Bible and Homosexual Practice. [A response to Wink’s reply to my response (Wink 2000b).] 34 pages. Online: http://www.robgagnon.net/articles/gagnon5.pdf.

________. 2002e. Robert Gagnon on Prof. Beth Johnson’s Review: A Witness Without Commandments? 7 pages. Online: pdf version: http://robgagnon.net/Reviews/homoBethJohnsonResponse.pdf; html version: http://robgagnon.net/RevJohnson.htm.

________. 2003a. Does the Bible Regard Same-Sex Intercourse as Intrinsically Sinful? Pages 100-150 in Christian Sexuality. Edited by R. E. Salzman. Minneapolis: Kirk House.

________. 2003b. Does the Bible Regard Same-Sex Intercourse as Intrinsically Sinful? An Evaluation of Mark Powell’s Essay in Faithful Conversation (Sections I-III). 30 pages. Online: http://www.robgagnon.net/articles/homoPowellRespSec1-3.pdf.

________. 2003c. Review of Faithful Conversation: Christian Perspectives on Homosexuality (ed. James M. Childs Jr.). Online: pdf version: http://www.robgagnon.net/articles/homoFaithConvReviewRBL.pdf; html version: http://www.robgagnon.net/RevFaithfulConv.htm

________. 2003d. Robert Gagnon on Prof. William Countryman’s Review: On Careful Scholarship. 18 pages. Online: pdf version: http://www.robgagnon.net/Reviews/homoCountrymanResp.pdf; html version: http://www.robgagnon.net/RevCountryman.htm.

________. 2003e. The Apostle Paul on Sexuality: A Response to Neil Elliott. Online: pdf version: http://www.robgagnon.net/articles/homoNeilElliottResponse.pdf; html version: http://www.robgagnon.net/RespNeilElliott.htm.

________. 2003f. Four Myths of Pro-Homosex Propaganda: A Response to Tex Sample’s “What Do Bible, Tradition Say About Gay Marriage?” Online: pdf version: http://www.robgagnon.net/articles/homoTexSampleResponse.pdf; html version: http://www.robgagnon.net/TexSampleResponse.htm.

________. 2003g. An Open Letter to the Presiding Bishop Frank Griswold. Online: pdf version: http://www.robgagnon.net/articles/homoGriswoldLetter.pdf; html version: http://www.robgagnon.net/GriswoldLetter.htm.

Greenberg, David F. 1988. The Construction of Homosexuality. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Greene-McCreight, Kathryn. 2000. The Logic of the Interpretation of Scripture and the Church’s Debate over Sexual Ethics. Pages 242-60 in Homosexuality, Science, and the “Plain Sense” of Scripture. Edited by D. L. Balch. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans. For critique, see: Gagnon 2000, 228-43.

Grenz, Stanley J. 1998. Welcoming But Not Affirming: An Evangelical Response to Homosexuality. Louisville: Westminster John Knox.

Gudorf, Christine E. 2000. The Bible and Science on Sexuality. Pages 121-41 in Homosexuality, Science, and the “Plain Sense” of Scripture. Edited by D. L. Balch. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans. For critique, see: Gagnon 2000, 196-216.

Haas, Günther. 1997. Exegetical Issues in the Use of the Bible to Justify the Acceptance of Homosexual Practice. Christian Scholar’s Review 26:386-412.

Hays, Richard B. 1986. Relations Natural and Unnatural: A Response to John Boswell’s Exegesis of Romans 1. Journal of Religious Ethics 14:184-215.

________. 1994. Awaiting the Redemption of Our Bodies: The Witness of Scripture Concerning Homosexuality. Pages 3-17 in Homosexuality in the Church: Both Sides of the Debate. Edited by J. S. Siker. Louisville: Westminster / John Knox.

________. 1996. The Moral Vision of the New Testament: Community, Cross, New Creation: A Contemporary Introduction to New Testament Ethics. San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco.

Hultgren, Arland J. 1994. Being Faithful to the Scriptures: Romans 1:26-27 as a Case in Point. Word and World 14:315-25.

Jennings, Theodore W., Jr. 2003. The Man Jesus Loved: Homoerotic Narratives from the New Testament. Cleveland: Pilgrim.

Jewett, Robert. 2000. The Social Context and Implications of Homoerotic References in Romans 1:24-27. Pages 223-41 in Homosexuality, Science, and the “Plain Sense” of Scripture. Edited by D. Balch. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans.

Johnson, Elizabeth. 2001. Review of R. Gagnon, The Bible and Homosexual Practice. Online: http://www.covenantnetwork.org/johnsonb.html. See response in Gagnon 2002e.

Jones, Stanton L., and Mark A. Yarhouse. 2000a. The Use, Misuse, and Abuse of Science in the Ecclesiastical Homosexuality Debates. Pages 73-120 in Homosexuality, Science, and the “Plain Sense” of Scripture. Edited by D. L. Balch. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans. For appreciative critique, see: Gagnon 2000, 183-95.

________. 2000b. Homosexuality: The Use of Scientific Research in the Church’s Moral Debate. Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press.

Klawans, Jonathan. 2000. Impurity and Sin in Ancient Judaism.  Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Koester, Craig R. 1993. The Bible and Sexual Boundaries. Lutheran Quarterly 7:375-90.

Martin, Dale. 1995. Heterosexism and the Interpretation of Romans 1:18-32. Biblical Interpretation 3:332-55.

________. 1996. Arsenokoitęs and Malakos: Meanings and Consequences. Pages 117-36 in Biblical Ethics and Homosexuality: Listening to Scripture. Edited by R. L. Brawley. Louisville: Westminster John Knox.

Mauser, Ulrich W. 1994. The Bible and Homosexuality. 5 pages. Online: http://christianity.about.com/library/weekly/blmauser.htm; http://www.christianadvice.net/homosexuality_and_the_bible_Mauser.htm; http://www.emu.asn.au/assembly2003/mauser_homosexuality.htm; and http://www.emu.asn.au/downloads/mauser_homosexuality.pdf.

________. 1996a. Creation and Human Sexuality in the New Testament. Pages 3-15 in Biblical Ethics and Homosexuality: Listening to Scripture. Edited by R. L. Brawley. Louisville: Westminster John Knox.

________. 1996b. Creation, Sexuality, and Homosexuality in the New Testament. Pages 39-49 in Homosexuality and Christian Community. Edited by C.-L. Seow. Louisville: Westminster John Knox.

Melcher, Sarah J. 1996. The Holiness Code and Human Sexuality. Pages 87-102 in Biblical Ethics and Homosexuality: Listening to Scripture. Edited by R. L. Brawley. Louisville: Westminster John Knox.

Milgrom, Jacob. 2000. Pages 1565-70, 1749, 1785-90 in Leviticus 17-22. Anchor Bible 3A. New York: Doubleday.

Miller, James E. 1995. The Practices of Romans 1:26: Homosexual or Heterosexual? Novum Testamentum 37:1-11.

Moore, Stephen D. 2001. Sex and the Single Apostle. Pages 133-72 in God’s Beauty Parlor and Other Queer Spaces In and Around the Bible. Stanford: Stanford University Press.

Nissinen, Martti. 1998. Homoeroticism in the Biblical World: A Historical Perspective. Minneapolis: Fortress.

Nolland, John. 2000. Romans 1:26-27 and the Homosexuality Debate. Horizons in Biblical Theology 22:32-57.

Olyan, Saul M. 1994. “And with a Male You Shall Not Lie the Lying Down of a Woman”: On the Meaning and Significance of Leviticus 18:22 and 20:13. Journal of the History of Sexuality 5:179-206.

Powell, Mark Allan. 2003. The Bible and Homosexuality. Pages 19-40 in Faithful Conversation: Christian Perspectives on Homosexuality. Edited by J. M. Childs. Minneapolis: Fortress.

Satinover, Jeffrey. 1996. Homosexuality and the Politics of Truth. Grand Rapids: Baker Books.

Schmidt, Thomas E. 1995. Straight and Narrow? Compassion and Clarity in the Homosexuality Debate. Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press.

________. 1996. Act and Orientation in Romans 1:26-27. Journal of Psychology and Christianity 15:293-300.

Schoedel, William R. 2000. Same-Sex Eros: Paul and the Greco-Roman Tradition. Pages 43-72 in Homosexuality, Science, and the “Plain Sense” of Scripture. Edited by D. L. Balch. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans.

Scroggs, Robin. 1983. The New Testament and Homosexuality: Contextual Background for Contemporary Debate. Philadelphia: Fortress Press.

Sears, Alan Sears and Craig Osten. 2003. The Homosexual Agenda: Exposing the Principal Threat to Religious Freedom Today. Nashville: Broadman & Holman.

Seitz, Christopher. 2000. Sexuality and Scripture’s Plain Sense: The Christian Community and the Law of God. Pages 177-96 in Homosexuality, Science, and the “Plain Sense” of Scripture. Edited by D. Balch. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans.

Siker, Jeffrey S. 1994. Homosexual Christians, the Bible, and Gentile Inclusion. Pages 178-94 in Homosexuality in the Church: Both Sides of the Debate. Edited by J. Siker. Louisville: Westminster John Knox.

________. 1996. Gentile Wheat and Homosexual Christians: New Testament Directions for the Heterosexual Church. Pages 137-51 in Biblical Ethics and Homosexuality: Listening to Scripture. Edited by R. L. Brawley. Louisville: Westminster John Knox.

Smith, Mark D. 1996. Ancient Bisexuality and the Interpretation of Romans 1:26-27. Journal of the American Academy of Religion 64:223-56. [Responses by Daniel Helminiak and James E. Miller, with Smith’s rejoinder in JAAR 65 [1997]: 855-70.]

Soards, Marion L. 1995. Scripture and Homosexuality: Biblical Authority and the Church Today. Louisville: Westminster John Knox.

Springett, Ronald M. 1988. Homosexuality in History and the Scriptures. Washington, D.C.: Biblical Research Institute.

Stein, Edward. 1999. The Mismeasure of Desire: The Science, Theory, and Ethics of Sexual Orientation. Oxford. Oxford University Press.

Stone, Ken. 1995. Gender and Homosexuality in Judges 19: Subject-Honor, Object-Shame? Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 67:87-107.

Stowasser, Martin. 1997. Homosexualität und Bibel. New Testament Studies 43:503-26.

Strommen, Merton P. The Church and Homosexuality: Searching for a Middle Ground. Minneapolis: Kirk House.

Swartley, Willard M. 2003. Homosexuality: Biblical Interpretation and Moral Discernment. Scottdale, Penn.: Herald Press.

Taylor, Walter F. 2001. The New Testament and Homosexuality: Denying God’s Purpose. Pages 56-57 in The Lutheran (May): A fuller 8400-word version is available online at: http://www.thelutheran.org/0105/page56.html.

Toulouse, Mark G. 2000. Muddling Through: The Church and Sexuality/Homosexuality. Pages 6-42 in Homosexuality, Science, and the “Plain Sense” of Scripture. Edited by D. L. Balch. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans. For critique, see: Gagnon 2000, 176-82.

Vasey, Michael. 1995. Strangers and Friends: A New Exploration of Homosexuality and the Bible. London: Hodder & Stoughton.

Waetjen, Herman C. 1996. Same-Sex Sexual Relations in Antiquity and Sexuality and Sexual Identity in Contemporary American Society. Pages 103-16 in Biblical Ethics and Homosexuality: Listening to Scripture. Edited by R. L. Brawley. Louisville: Westminster John Knox.

Walsh, Jerome T. 2001. Leviticus 18:22 and 20:13: Who Is Doing What to Whom? Journal of Biblical Literature 120: 201-209.

Ward, Roy Bowen. 1997. Why Unnatural? The Tradition behind Romans 1:26-27. Harvard Theological Review 90:263-84.

Webb, William J. 2001. Slaves, Women, and Homosexuals: Exploring the Hermeneutics of Cultural Analysis. Downers Grove. InterVarsity Press.

Whitaker, Richard E. 1996. Creation and Human Sexuality. Pages 3-13 in Homosexuality and Christian Community. Edited by C.-L. Seow. Louisville: Westminster John Knox.

White, Leland J. 1995. Does the Bible Speak about Gays or Same-Sex Orientation? A Test Case in Biblical Ethics. Biblical Theology Bulletin 25:14-23.

Williams, Craig A. 1999. Roman Homosexuality: Ideologies of Masculinity in Classical Antiquity. New York: Oxford University Press.

Wink, Walter. 1999. Homosexuality and the Bible. Pages 33-49 in Homosexuality and Christian Faith: Questions of Conscience for the Churches. Edited by Walter Wink. Minneapolis: Fortress. For critique, see Gagnon 2002a.

________. 2002a. To Hell With Gays? [A Review of Robert Gagnon’s The Bible and Homosexual Practice]. Christian Century 119, no. 13 (June 5-12): 32-34. Online: http://www.robgagnon.net/Reviews/homoWinkExchanges.pdf.

________. 2002b. A Reply By Walter Wink. Christian Century 119, no. 17 (Aug. 14-27): 43-44. Online: http://www.robgagnon.net/Reviews/homoWinkExchanges.pdf.

Wold, Donald J. 1998. Out of Order: Homosexuality in the Bible and the Ancient Near East. Grand Rapids: Baker Books.

Wolfe, Christopher, ed. 1999. Homosexuality and American Public Life. Dallas: Spence Publishing Company.

Wright, David F. 1984. Homosexuals or Prostitutes? The Meaning of [Arsenokoitai] (1 Cor. 6:9, 1 Tim. 1:10). Vigiliae Christianae 38:125-53.

________. 1997. The Christian Faith and Homosexuality. Rev. ed. Edinburgh: Rutherford House.

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