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Authorizing Marriage?
Canon, Tradition, and Critique in the Blessing of Same-Sex Unions
Edited by Mark D. Jordan
With Meghan T. Sweeney and David M. Mellott

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TABLE OF CONTENTS:

LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS vii

MARK D. JORDAN
Introduction 1

SAUL M. OLYAN
"Surpassing the Love of Women": Another Look at 2 Samuel 1:26 and the Relationship of David and Jonathan 7

DALE B. MARTIN
Familiar Idolatry and the Christian Case against Marriage 17

MARY ANN TOLBERT
Marriage and Friendship in the Christian New Testament: Ancient Resources for Contemporary Same-Sex Unions 41

DANIEL BOYARIN
Why Is Rabbi Yohanan a Woman? or, A Queer Marriage Gone Bad: "Platonic Love" in the Talmud 52

LAURENCE PAUL HEMMING
Can I Really Count on You? 68

STEVEN GREENBERG
Contemplating a Jewish Ritual of Same-Sex Union: An Inquiry into the Meanings of Marriage 81

MARK D. JORDAN
Arguing Liturgical Genealogies, or, The Ghosts of Weddings Past 102

KATHRYN TANNER
Hooker and the New Puritans 121

SUSAN FRANK PARSONS
Ad Imaginem Dei: Is There a Moral Here? 139

EUGENE F. ROGERS JR.
Trinity, Marriage, and Homosexuality 151

NOTES 165
INDEX 197

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