Queering the Prophet

L. Juliana M. Claassens is Associate Professor of Old Testament at Stellenbosch University in South Africa.Steed Vernyl Davidson is Professor of Hebrew Bible, Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the Faculty at McCormick Theological Seminary, Chicago IL and Extraordinary Visiting Professor, Department of Old and New Testament, Faculty of Theology, Stellenbosch University, South AfricaCharlene van der Walt is the head of the Gender and Religion at the School of Religion, Philosophy, and Classics at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa and also serves as the Deputy Director of the Ujamaa Center for Biblical and Theological Community Development and Research.Ashwin Thyssen is a junior lecturer in the Department of Systematic Theology and Ecclesiology, Stellenbosch University. He teaches church polity, church history, and religion and law.

• Contributors Introduction Part 1: Queering the Prophet Jonah 1 These Are the Days of Raw Despondence: Finding a Queer Kindred in the Book of Jonah Charlene van der Walt 2 Prophecy and Consent: The Case of Jonah Rhiannon Graybill 3 Under a Desert Plant: Queer Heterotopias in Jonah Steed Davidson 4 ‘When the World No Longer Appears the Right Way Up:’ Queering Time, Space, and the Prophetic Body in Jonah 2 L Juliana Claassens 5 Queering Memories of Nineveh as ‘Great City’ in the Book of Jonah: Challenging Presuppositions of Power in Post-exilic Yehud 6 Queering the Straight Jonah – A Reception-Exegetical Exploration Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer 7 Would Vishnu Save Jonah’s Poor Fishie?: A Transtextual Query Jione Havea Part 2: Becoming Queer Prophets 8 Queering the Prophetic Process: From Jonah to the Ujamma Centre’s CBS on Galatians Gerald West and Tracey Sibisi 9 On the Public Intellectual as Queer Prophet: Considering the Activism of Zethu Matebeni and Charlene van der Walt Ashwin Afrikanus Thyssen, 10 Becoming a Queer Prophet: Desmond Tutu, Embodiment and Speaking Out for LGBTIQ+ Equality Jacob Meiring 11 What Makes a Queer Prophet? Charisma, Authority and Counter-Knowledges in the Ministry of a Kenyan Intersex Apostle Stephen Kapinde and Adriaan van Klinken 12 Queering the Publics: Reflections on Truth by Prophetic Practitioners Nokuthula Mjwara, Hanzline R. Davids, Louis van der Riet, and Ashwin Thyssen 13 Womanist Biblical Interpretation’s Prophetic Potential Sheurl Davis, Madré Arendse and Ashwin Thyssen

"Queering the Prophet is a genuinely intersectional, international, interdisciplinary and interreligious book. The prophetic figure of Jonah is shown to be queer in multitudinous ways, and is portrayed here as guiding star for other prophets negotiating their social, cultural, political and religious worlds in queer times. The voices of established and emerging scholars highlight the prophetic nature of much activist work in Africa, Europe, North America and Oceania."