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‘Knock, Knock, Knockin’ on Sodom’s Door’: The Function of [ILLEGIBLE]/[ILLEGIBLE] in Genesis 18-19

Faculteit Godgeleerdheid, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

The history of research into chs. 18-19 of the book of Genesis has tended to be a history of entrenchment and the provision of support for a ground-text which can be employed for the biblical condemnation of same-gender, genitally expressed sexuality. A close reading of the narrative reveals, however, that the story has been peppered with a number of clues consciously designed to lead the reader to a more or less comprehensive interpretation of an otherwise ambiguous text. This article contends that the ‘sexual’ reading of the Mamre-Sodom narrative is thus by no means the most comprehensive and that its author’s use, among other things, of the key words [ILLEGIBLE] and [ILLEGIBLE] further support an alternative reading in which sex and sexuality have no significant role to play.

Journal for the Study of the Old Testament, Vol. 28, No. 4, 431-448 (2004)
DOI: 10.1177/030908920402800403


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