Study of the reception of Genesis 19 with Judges 19-21 in both Christian and Jewish traditions from antiquity to the Reformation period.

1. Introducing Sodom/olog/y: A Homosexual Reading Hetero-Textuality; 2. Reading Sodom and Gibeah; 3. A Shared Heritage - Sodom and Gibeah in Temple Times; 4. But the Men of Sodom Were Worse than the Men of Gibeah for the Men of Gibeah Only Wanted Sex: Sodom the Cruel, Gibeah and Rabbinic Judaism; 5. Towards Sodomy: Sodom and Gibeah in the Christian Ecumen; 6. The Sin that Arrogantly Proclaims Itself - Inventing Sodomy in Medieval Christendom; 7. Conclusion: Detoxifying Sodom and Gomorrah

Michael Carden teaches Biblical Studies and Comparative Religion at the University of Queensland, Australia.