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Queering the Ethiopian Eunuch

Strategies of Ambiguity in Acts

by Sean D. Burke
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013

Were eunuchs more usually castrated guardians of the harem, as florid Orientalist portraits imagine them, or were they trusted court officials who may never have been castrated? Was the Ethiopian eunuch a Jew or a Gentile, a slave or a free man? Why does Luke call him a “man” while contemporaries...
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