Ken Stone is an author, Professor of Bible, Culture and Hermeneutics at Chicago Theological Seminary

Chicago Theological Seminary

The Chicago Theological Seminary is a seminary of the United Church of Christ. It prepares women and men for leadership in the church and society through Master of Divinity , Master of Arts in Religious Studies , Master of Sacred Theology , Doctor of Ministry , and Doctor of Philosophy programs...

 and a member of the United Church of Christ

United Church of Christ

The United Church of Christ is a mainline Protestant Christian denomination primarily in the Reformed tradition but also historically influenced by Lutheranism. The Evangelical and Reformed Church and the Congregational Christian Churches united in 1957 to form the UCC...

. He chairs the Reading, Theory and the Bible Section of the Society of Biblical Literature

Society of Biblical Literature

The Society of Biblical Literature, founded 1880, is a constituent society of the American Council of Learned Societies , with the stated mission to "Foster Biblical Scholarship"...

. The winner of a Lambda Literary Award

Lambda Literary Award

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, Stone focuses much of his research and writing on the relationship between biblical hermeneutics

Biblical hermeneutics

Biblical hermeneutics is the study of the principles of interpretation concerning the books of the Bible. It is part of the broader field of hermeneutics which involves the study of principles for the text and includes all forms of communication: verbal and nonverbal.While Jewish and Christian...

 and matters of gender and sexuality (see queer theology). His other research and teaching interests include the relationship between critical theory and biblical interpretation and matters of gender, sexuality, animals, and ecology.

Education

• B.A., Lee College, 1984
• M. Div., Church of God School of Theology, 1987
• Th.M., Harvard Divinity School, 1989
• M.A., Ph.D., Vanderbilt University, 1992, 1995

Publications

• Practicing Safer Texts: Food, Sex and Bible in Queer Perspective (T. & T. Clark, 2005)
• Queer Commentary and the Hebrew Bible, ed. (Sheffield Academic Press/Pilgrim Press, 2001)
• Sex, Honor and Power in the Deuteronomistic History (Sheffield Academic Press, 1996).