Wood, MaryOmuro, Jonathan2018-09-062018-09-062018-09-06https://hdl.handle.net/1794/23824This project focuses on Horus Gilgamesh’s Awkward Moments of the Children’s Bible, Vol. 1 (2013), an adult picture book that parodies the Bible by illustrating biblical scriptures with child unfriendly images of gore, sex, and God’s sexy ass. Using semiotic, religious, and queer theory, I read this text as not only a satirical one, but one that is life affirming to “childish adults”—those individuals who don’t quite fit into the heteropatriachichal standards normalized by religious right ideologies.en-USAll Rights Reserved.Children's literatureQueer theoryU.S. ChristianityElectronic Thesis or Dissertation