Some may have been wondering at the sober tone of my blog of late. Well, the reason is that my mother, who has reprimanded me already, still has access to the internet – until 20 June. But I can’t resist this post, for I have finished the full draft for my next book, Fleshly Readings. The table of contents is:
Part A. Song of Songs
1. The Second Coming: Repetition and Insatiable Desire in the Song of Songs
2. Keeping It Literal? The Economy of the Song of Songs
3. A Fleshly Reading: Masochism and Ecocriticism
Part B. Masculinities
4. The Patriarch’s Nuts
5. Too Many Dicks at the Writing Desk, or, How to Organise a Prophetic Sausage-Fest
6. Of Fine Wine, Incense and Spices: The Unstable Masculine Hegemony of the Books of Chronicles
7. Yahweh as Top: A Lost Targum
7. Skin Gods: Circumcising the Built Male Body
Part C. Paraphilias
9. Hooker Hermeneutics
10. King Solomon Meets Annie Sprinkle
11. Orientalist Camp: On Allen Edwardes
12. Hittites, Horses and Corpses: On Bestiality and Necrophilia in the Hebrew Bible
16 May, 2010 at 9:56 pm
Do you have a publisher yet?
17 May, 2010 at 9:57 am
Routledge perhaps, since they published Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door. But the next task, now that the book is in the form I like it, is to write up a proposal and send it to a publisher or two. I like Prometheus Books.
16 May, 2010 at 10:10 pm
Good to see the inclusion of the old sausage-fest.
17 May, 2010 at 9:57 am
The whole of part b is one big sausage fest.
17 May, 2010 at 10:12 am
Though not being involved in biblical criticism at all, this has certainly piqued my interest…I’m sure with your sharp criticism and rapier wit (sorry about the cliché) it will make a great read! Any suitably controversial cover images in mind yet?
17 May, 2010 at 10:35 am
On this one, I think we’re blessed with an almost embarrassing surfeit of possible covers. Under-stated is probably not a bad way to go. Maybe one of my photos, since they have turned on two of my books. Any suggestions?
17 May, 2010 at 1:28 pm
Will your book explain why Jesus was talking about “cum” in that little girl’s bedroom (Mark 6:41)?
17 May, 2010 at 2:41 pm
I will answer that question only after 20 June
18 May, 2010 at 6:54 am
Referencing fail!
18 May, 2010 at 7:52 am
Mark 5:41, that is.
16 November, 2010 at 12:56 pm
Mind you Jesus saw nothing bad about cum,howbeit he was saying the word damsel in another language.”Talitha, “Cumi”
17 May, 2010 at 4:13 pm
Re your chapter on the second coming, check out the Huffington Post at:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/doug-lansky/9-signs-that-prove-god-ha_b_576596.html
As you know, it is the practice for sectarian Protestant churches in the southern US to have ‘pearls of wisdom’ posted on advertising billboards in front of the church. Many, such as the one reported above by the Huffington Post, are a hoot.
The Huffington Post link also shows other similar misadventures with the American ecclesiastical billboard.
17 May, 2010 at 4:17 pm
The picture I was referring to re your second chapter is #7 in this Huffington Post series.
17 May, 2010 at 8:49 pm
I’m sold – thankyou.
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