Reading Strategies for Biblical Passages on Same-Sex Relations

Boswell, J. 1980 Christianity, Social Tolerance and Homosexuality: Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Fourteenth Century (Chicago: University of Chicago Press).

Brooten, B. 1996 Love Between Women: Early Christian Responses to Female Homo-eroticism (Chicago: University of Chicago Press).

Countryman, W. 1988 Dirt, Greed, and Sex: Sexual Ethics in the New Testament and Their Implications for Today (Philadelphia: Fortress Press).

Martin, D. 1995 'Heterosexism and the Interpretation of Romans 1.18-32 , Biblical Interpretation, 3: 332-55.

Furnish, V. 1985 The Moral Teaching of Paul (Nashville : Abingdon Press, 2nd edn., 1979).

Gomes, P. 1996 Reading the Bible with Mind and Heart ( New York: William Morrow & Co.).

Hall, B. 1996 'Homosexuality and a New Creation', in Hefling 1996: 142-156.

Hays, R. 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', in Siker 1994: 3-17.

Hefling, C. 1996 Ourselves, Our Souls and Bodies: Sexuality and the Household of God (Cambridge, MA.:Cowley).

McNeill, J.J. 1993 The Church and the Homosexual (Boston : Beacon Press, 4th edn.).

Meeks, W. 1996 'The "Haustafeln" and American Slavery: A Hermeneutical Challenge', in E.H. Lovering and J. Sumney (eds.), Theology and Ethics in Paul and His Interpreters: Essays in Honor of Victor Paul Furnish, ( Nashville: Abingdon Press): 232-253.

Miller, J. 1995 'The Practices of Romans 1.26: Homosexual or Heterosexual ?', Novum Testamentum 37: 1-11.

Miller, P.D. 1996 'What the Scriptures Principally Teach', in Seow 1996: 35-43.

Olyan, S. 1994 "'And with a Male You Shall Not Lie the Lying Down of A Woman": On the Meaning and Significance of Lev. 18.22 and 20.13' , Journal of the History of Sexuality 5: 179-206.

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

Seow, C. -L.(ed.) 1996 Homosexuality and the Christian Community ( Louisville, KY: Westminster/John Knox Press).

Siker, J. (ed.) 1994 Homosexuality in the Church: Both Sides of the Debate ( Louisville, KY: Westminster/John Knox Press).

Spong, J. 1988 Living in Sin: A Bishop Rethinks Sexuality (San Francisco : Harper & Row).

Tise, L.E. 1987 Proslavery: A History of the Defense of Slavery in America 1701-1840 (Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press ).

Wimbush, V. 1993 'African American Traditions and the Bible', in B. Metzger and M. Coogan (eds.), The Oxford Companion to the Bible ( Oxford: Oxford University Press): 12-15.