FUCK YEAH! THEOLOGY

So I just processed this book. Admittedly, from what I skimmed I was not very fond of it. The author does a whole spiel on how David and Jonathan’s relationship def was not a homosexual one, which is great and all I suppose. But he used an extremely historical-critical method of interpretation and I just feel like we can’t limit ourselves to this one kind of interpretation in light of all the new liberation/feminist/queer hermeneutics (methods of interpretation) which are prominent today. Why can’t people queer the story of David and Jonathan? Just because all the perfectly constructed and evaluated historical detail doesn’t add up to what we view today as a homosexual relationship doesn’t mean that people today won’t read it like that or that the story isn’t most useful and liberating to modern people when representing a queer couple. Scholars need to make more use of hermeneutics like reimagination and suspicion.

I like my David and Jonathan gay, kthxbai.