This book takes the ground-breaking work of Lee Edelman in queer theory and for the first time demonstrates its importance and relevance to contemporary theology, Biblical studies, and religious studies.

Kent L. Brintnall is an associate professor at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte affiliated with the Department of Religious Studies and the Women's & Gender Studies Program.

Rhiannon Graybill is the Marcus M. and Carole M. Weinstein & Gilbert M. and Fannie S. Rosenthal Chair of Jewish Studies at the University of Richmond.

Linn Marie Tonstad is Associate Professor of Theology, Religion, and Sexuality at Yale Divinity School.

1 Fuck the Survivor: Refusing the Future Promised by the Sanctified Cancer Patient 2 Sexual Violence and the "End" of Subjectivity: Queer Negativity and a Theopolitics of Refusal 3 Conquest's Compulsion: Against the Promise of the Promised Land in the Hebrew Bible 4 Qohelet's Queer Negativity 5 "He Changes Times and Seasons": Daniel, Sinthomosexuality, and Queer Time 6 Flaming Faggotry, Fractured Futurities, and Horizons of Hope in the Acts of Xanthippe, Polyxena and Rebecca 7 Losing Ground: From Anti-Gang Apocalypticism to Social Dis/Repair 8 Queer Negativity and Racial Antagonism: Edelman, Afro-Pessimism, and the Limits of Recognition 9 Revolutionary Grace: Insisting, with Edelman, on Bataille's Deep Subversion 10 Queering the Death of God 11 Cripping Image: Disability, Queer Negativity, and God the Sinthomosexual 12 Saying Nothing