Sex and the Single Savior: Gender and Sexuality in Biblical Interpretation
Dale B. Martin
Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2006.
Sex and the Single Savior: Gender and Sexuality in Biblical Interpretation, is a collection of 11 scholarly but passionate and sometimes iconoclastic essays by a gay Episcopalian professor of religious studies at Yale University. Martin exposes “the myth of textual agency” and the impossibility of a “pure” or unfiltered (that is, uninterpreted) reading of any biblical text. In one chapter, he deals at length with what has been the problematic first chapter of Paul’s letter to the Romans.
