Ken Stone (biblical scholar)


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 hermeneutics and matters of gender and sexuality. His other research and teaching interests include the relationship between critical theory and biblical interpretation and matters of gender, sexuality, animals, and ecology.

Education

He received a Master of Divinity degree from the Church of God School of Theology in 1987, a Master of Theology degree from Harvard Divinity School in 1989, and a Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University in 1995.

Publications

BooksReading the Hebrew Bible with Animal Studies Practicing Safer Texts: Food, Sex and Bible in Queer Perspective Queer Commentary and the Hebrew Bible, ed. Sex, Honor and Power in the Deuteronomistic History.
Articles