Description: Conventional interpretations of biblical texts tend to overlook how the text and its interpretation is gendered as a white male enterprise. This book exposes centrist readings that underwrite expressions of masculinity that are singular and instead offers a playful reading tha...
Review Quotes: "Rob Stegmann employs gender-critical, postcolonial-inclined and contextual-aware lenses as he deftly works toward plotting out a polysemous yet bodily expressed Pauline masculinity in 1 Thessalonians in its socio-historical setting, deliberately encountering also the academy-church interface in South Africa and beyond...besides enriching, words like academically and personally engaging, committed and also honest and inviting, probably best describe this book!" --Jeremy Punt, University of Stellenbosch