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Holy Cross Professor:  Jesus Was A ‘Drag King’

Holy Cross Professor:  Jesus Was A ‘Drag King’

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Jesus of Nazareth appears as a "drag king" in the Gospels, healed the male slave-lover of a Roman soldier, and may not have been a biological male, a Holy Cross professor argues. Tat-siong Benny Liew, a professor of New Testament Studies at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester since 2013, shows "an unconventional approach to gender, sexuality, and race in the biblical texts," according to an article by Elinor Reilly, a senior at Holy Cross, in the March issue of The Fenwick

Jesus of Nazareth appears as a "drag king" in the Gospels, healed the male slave-lover of a Roman soldier, and may not have been a biological male, a Holy Cross professor argues. Tat-siong Benny Liew, a professor of New Testament Studies at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester since 2013, shows "an unconventional approach to gender, sexuality, and race in the biblical texts," according to an article by Elinor Reilly, a senior at Holy Cross, in the March issue of The Fenwick Review.…