Ken Stone (biblical scholar)

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Ken Stone is an author, Professor of Bible, Culture and Hermeneutics at Chicago Theological Seminary and a member of the United Church of Christ. He chairs the Reading, Theory and the Bible Section of the Society of Biblical Literature. The winner of a Lambda Literary Award, Stone focuses much of his research and writing on the relationship between biblical interpretation and matters of gender and sexuality. His other research and teaching interests include interdisciplinary approaches to biblical interpretation; neglected areas of the Canon; and possibilities for rethinking biblical theology in the contemporary, “postmodern” world.^[1]

[edit] Education

B.A., Lee College, 1984
M. Div., Church of God School of Theology, 1987
Th.M., Harvard Divinity School, 1989
M.A., Ph.D., Vanderbilt University, 1992, 1995

[edit] Publications

Practicing Safer Texts: Food, Sex and Bible in Queer Perspective (T. & T. Clark, 2005)
Queer Commentary and the Hebrew Bible, ed. (Sheffield Academic Press/Pilgrim Press, 2001)
Sex, Honor and Power in the Deuteronomistic History (Sheffield Academic Press, 1996).