ABSTRACT
'The private parts of Jesus Christ': difficult to think about without engaging with the question of what we might call, in the wake of a kind of deconstructive anachrony, the telepathic. There are numerous occasions in the Bible when Jesus appears telepathic, apparently seeing in secret, knowing the thoughts of others. Leo Steinberg's monumental tome on the sexuality of Christ offers only brief discussion of Jesus and circumcision, in a section entitled 'Resisting the physical evidence of circumcision'. The latter observes: 'From the start Christianity was, essentially and fundamentally, the embodiment of disgust and antipathy for life, merely disguised, concealed, got up as the belief in an "other" or a "better" life. Specters of Marx has rightly attracted considerable attention among Marxists and others concerned with the future of world politics. The Sexuality of Christ in Renaissance Art and Modern Oblivion begins by noting that The first necessity is to admit a long-suppressed matter of fact.
