When Heroes Love: The Ambiguity of Eros in the Stories of Gilgamesh and David

Susan Ackerman

July, 2005
Cloth, 336 pages, 58 color illus.
ISBN: 978-0-231-13260-2
$51.00 / £30.00

Abbreviations

Prologue

1. Of Greeting Cards and Methods: Understanding Ancient Near Eastern Sex

The Mesopotamian Epic of Gilgamesh

2. Introducing Gilgamesh

3. Gilgamesh and Enkidu

4. The Liminal Hero, Part 1

5. The Liminal Hero, Part 2

The Biblical Story of David and Jonathan

6. Introducing David

7. David and Jonathan

8. Liminality and Beyond

Epilogue

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Related Subjects

• Gay and Lesbian Studies
• Middle Eastern literature
• Religion

Series

• Gender, Theory, and Religion

About the Author

Susan Ackerman is professor of religion and women’s and gender studies at Dartmouth College and chair of the Department of Religion. She is the author of Warrior, Dancer, Seductress, Queen: Women in Judges and Biblical Israel and Under Every Green Tree: Popular Religion in Sixth-Century Judah.

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