Homoeroticism in the Biblical World: A Historical Perspective

"I just love this book for its scope and its introduction of lots of interesting ideas, from the relationship of David and Jonathan, and its discussion of that, through to its broad coverage of Mesopotamia, Egypt and what is going on in the background to the Bible’s discussions on same sex desire. It’s very accessible. And if you want a background to some of the stuff you might be reading, or might have heard in church—if you’re part of that community—it’s a really, really fabulous book. It takes a historical perspective to the Bible itself and just gives us this really brilliant overview of all sorts of different societies within which the Bible was set. It’s a really great introduction to that world. If you want to understand more about the New Testament and the background to that, too, it starts, like The Man Jesus Loved , provoking all sorts of questions and overturning ways that we might traditionally have thought about things."