[PDF] Gendered Violence In Biblical Narrative eBook

Author : Esther Brownsmith
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 19,14 MB
Release : 2024-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1040015050

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This book uses three examples of violent biblical stories about women, explored through the lens of conceptual metaphor theory in relation to culinary language used within these texts, to examine wider issues of gender and sexual violence in the Hebrew Bible. Utilising the tools of conceptual metaphor theory, feminist criticism, and classic textual analysis, Brownsmith interrogates some of the most troubling biblical passages for women—neither by redeeming them nor by condemning them, but by showing how they are intrinsically shaped by the enduring metaphor of woman as food in the Hebrew Bible, ancient Near East, and beyond. The volume explores three main case studies: the Levite’s “concubine” (Judges 19); Tamar and Amnon (2 Sam 13); and the life and death of Jezebel (primarily 1 Kings 21 and 2 Kings 9). All depict violence toward a woman as perpetrated by a man, interwoven with culinary language that cues their metaphorical implications. In these sensitive but critical readings of violent tales, Brownsmith also draws on a broad range of interdisciplinary connections from Ricoeur to ancient Ugaritic epics to modern comic books. Through this approach, readers gain new insights into how the Bible shapes its narratives through conceptual metaphors, and specifically how it makes meaning out of women’s brutalized bodies. Gendered Violence in Biblical Narrative: The Devouring Metaphor is suitable for students and scholars working on gender and sexual violence in the Hebrew Bible and the ancient Near East more broadly, as well as those working on conceptual metaphor theory and feminist criticism.

Author : Caroline Blyth
Publisher : Springer
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 38,31 MB
Release : 2018-02-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 3319706691

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This book explores the Bible’s ongoing relevance in contemporary discussions around rape culture and gender violence. Each chapter considers the ways that biblical texts and themes engage with various forms of gender violence, including the subjective, physical violence of rape, the symbolic violence of misogynistic and heteronormative discourses, and the structural violence of patriarchal power systems. The authors within this volume attempt to name (and shame) the multiple forms of gender violence present within the biblical traditions, contesting the erasure of this violence within both the biblical texts themselves and their interpretive traditions. They also consider the complex connections between biblical gender violence and the perpetuation and validation of rape culture in contemporary popular culture. This volume invites new and ongoing conversations about the Bible’s complicity in rape-supportive cultures and practices, challenging readers to read these texts in light of the global crisis of gender violence.

Author : Lynn Japinga
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Page : pages
File Size : 50,87 MB
Release : 2020-08-25
Category :
ISBN : 9780664265694

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For too long the women of the Bible have been depicted in one-dimensional terms. On one side are saints, such as Mary, while on the other are "bad girls," such as Eve and Jezebel. Just as often, the female characters of the Bible are simply ignored. However, the women of the Bible are complex, multidimensional individuals whose lives are inspiring, funny, and tragic in ways too many of us never hear. In this first of two volumes, Lynn Japinga acquaints us with the women of the Old Testament. From flawed heroes like Ruth and Rahab to fierce fighters like Deborah and Jael to tragic characters like Jephthah's daughter and the unnamed concubine of the book of Judges, readers will encounter a wealth of foremothers in the faith in all their messy, yet redeemable, humanity. This Bible study introduces and retells every female character who contributes to one or more Old Testament stories, diving deeply into what each woman's story means for us today with questions for reflection and discussion.

Author : Alice Bach
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 16,36 MB
Release : 1997-08-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780521475600

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This accessible, readable book looks at the cultural study of the Bible, challenging the traditional mode of reading the women in the Bible. Alice Bach applies literary theory, cultural representations of biblical figures, films, and paintings to a close reading of a group of biblical texts revolving around the 'wicked' literary figures in the Bible. She compares the biblical character of the wife of Potiphar with the Second Temple Period narratives and rabbinic midrashim that expand her story. She then reads Bathsheba against a Yiddish novel by David Pinski, and finally looks at the Biblical Salome against a very different Salome created by Oscar Wilde, and the selection of Salomes created by Hollywood. Bach argues that biblical characters have a life in the mind of the reader independent of the stories in which they were created, thus making the reader the site at which the texts and the cultures that produced them come together.

Author : Amy Kalmanofsky
Publisher : Dog Ear Publishing
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 37,14 MB
Release : 2017-09-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1457551098

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At the heart of many religions are sacred texts that depict or even incite sexual violence. Most of this violence is directed against women and girls. Sexual Violence and Sacred Texts opens up an informed, passionate, interfaith dialogue for scholars and activists seeking to transform social problems that impact women and girls globally. Situated within struggles toward gender equity and widespread spiritual flourishing, these essays empower religious leaders, academics, and laypersons to confront and to creatively engage with sacred texts that re-inscribe sexual violence. Readers will find in this book suggestions of how to make sense in the face of violent religious texts and to craft for themselves ways of bringing healing to themselves, and to the victimized so they can have a voice. Mercy Amba Oduyoye, Women in Religion and Culture Institute, Trinity Theological Seminary, Legon, Accra, Ghana This highly readable and insightful collection accomplishes several things at once: it lift s up the reality of gender-based violence in Jewish, Christi an, and Muslim Scriptures in ways that illuminate the roots of violence in our own time; it offers numerous concrete strategies for using painful texts as tools for healing and liberation; and it offers a variety of terrific models for thinking through how to deal with the hard places in Scripture. Judith Plaskow, Professor Emerita of Religious Studies at Manhattan College Sexual Violence and Sacred Texts takes an unflinching look at violence in religious texts from the perspective of women who are scholars of and participants in the traditions in which the texts are venerated. What emerges is a series of deep, faithful, brutally honest engagements with the scriptures of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Wil Gafney, Episcopal priest and Associate Professor of Hebrew Bible, Brite Divinity School

Author : Rena MacLeod
Publisher :
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 46,34 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Violence in the Bible
ISBN :

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This dissertation is concerned with girls' and women's experience of men's violence as a particular phenomenon apparent within the Bible, and one that is 'hidden in plain sight' in the contemporary world. This study is especially concerned with the problem of biblical narratives that depict men's extreme victimisation of women, for, as feminist scholarship has found, these texts are dangerous and difficult to redeem in light of their capacity to proliferate and normalise men's enactment of violence against women. The following investigation offers an important response to these issues. It devises and implements an interpretive model that illuminates how biblical narratives of persecuted women may be redeemed for inherent positive value and relevance to the contemporary issue of gendered violence. Specifically, this investigation shows how the biblical witness to women's victimhood may be perceived as demystifying and subsequently undermining enduring patterns and processes of gendered violence. The interpretive model put forward in this dissertation is constructed from concepts drawn from René Girard's mimetic theory, and feminist theory of sexual difference as informed by scholars such as Luce Irigaray, Hélène Cixous, and Julia Kristeva. These two theoretical frameworks are shown to provide analytical tools that 1) combine to enable detailed examination of the biblical representation of gendered violence; and 2) determine how the representation of women's victimhood exposes and disrupts patterns and processes of violence that are characteristic of androcentric contexts. This interpretive model is applied to two biblical narratives depicting men's extreme victimisation of women: Jephthah's daughter of Judges 11 and the unnamed woman of Judges 19. Analysis establishes that these texts, contrary to other comparable contemporaneous mythology, are salient in their witness to men's enactment of violence against women. In particular, the two victims within these narratives become perceptible as distinctive, potent female scapegoats with liberatory value as they demystify and disrupt clandestine patterns of gendered victimisation so human experience might work free from them. This study importantly contributes to biblical scholarship as it brings forward new ways of reading dangerous texts that counteract their capacity to proliferate violence against women. Significantly, this dissertation provisions women and men with an alternate interpretive model that enables them to encounter violent biblical content as redeemable and relevant to women's experience, and to ameliorating the contemporary global issue of pervasive male-performed violence against girls and women.

Author : Linda Day
Publisher : Presbyterian Publishing Corp
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 36,80 MB
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0664229107

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In highly accessible essays, the book covers the history, achievements, and cutting-edge questions in the area of gender and biblical scholarship, including violence and the Bible, female biblical God imagery, and sexuality."--Jacket.

Author : Fred Nyabera
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 42,7 MB
Release : 2007-02-01
Category :
ISBN : 9780615857572

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This book invites you to consider Gender-Based Violence from a biblical perspective as it relates to your life and context.

Author : A. S. Van Klinken
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 22,32 MB
Release : 2021
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1847012833

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An invaluable insight into the narrative politics and theologies of LGBTQ+ life-storytelling, a key text for those in African Humanities, Queer Studies, Religious Studies, and Refugee Studies.Presenting the deeply moving personal life stories of Ugandan LGBTQ+ refugees in Nairobi, Kenya alongside an analysis of the process in which they creatively engaged with two Bible stories - Daniel in the Lions' Den (Old Testament) and Jesus and the Woman Caught in Adultery (New Testament) - Sacred Queer Stories explores how readings of biblical stories can reveal their experiences of struggle, their hopes for the future, and their faith in God and humanity. Arguing that the telling of life-stories of marginalised people, such as of Ugandan LGBTQ+ refugees, affirms embodied existence and agency, is socially and politically empowering, and enables human solidarity, the authors also show how the Bible as an authoritative religious text and popular cultural archive in Africa is often used against LGBTQ+ people but can also be reclaimed as a site of meaning, healing, and empowerment. The result of a collaborative project between UK-based academics and a Nairobi-based organisation of Ugandan LGBTQ+ refugees, the book provides a valuable insight into the narrative politics and theologies of LGBTQ+ life-storytelling. A key text for those in African Humanities, Queer Studies, Religious Studies, and Refugee Studies, among others, the book expresses an innovative methodology of inter-reading queer life-stories and biblical stories.be reclaimed as a site of meaning, healing, and empowerment. The result of a collaborative project between UK-based academics and a Nairobi-based organisation of Ugandan LGBTQ+ refugees, the book provides a valuable insight into the narrative politics and theologies of LGBTQ+ life-storytelling. A key text for those in African Humanities, Queer Studies, Religious Studies, and Refugee Studies, among others, the book expresses an innovative methodology of inter-reading queer life-stories and biblical stories.be reclaimed as a site of meaning, healing, and empowerment. The result of a collaborative project between UK-based academics and a Nairobi-based organisation of Ugandan LGBTQ+ refugees, the book provides a valuable insight into the narrative politics and theologies of LGBTQ+ life-storytelling. A key text for those in African Humanities, Queer Studies, Religious Studies, and Refugee Studies, among others, the book expresses an innovative methodology of inter-reading queer life-stories and biblical stories.be reclaimed as a site of meaning, healing, and empowerment. The result of a collaborative project between UK-based academics and a Nairobi-based organisation of Ugandan LGBTQ+ refugees, the book provides a valuable insight into the narrative politics and theologies of LGBTQ+ life-storytelling. A key text for those in African Humanities, Queer Studies, Religious Studies, and Refugee Studies, among others, the book expresses an innovative methodology of inter-reading queer life-stories and biblical stories.

Author : Rhiannon Graybill
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 38,45 MB
Release : 2021
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0190082313

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"It is widely recognized that the Hebrew Bible is filled with rape and sexual violence. However, feminist approaches to the topic remain dominated by Phyllis Trible's 1984 Texts of Terror, which describes feminist criticism as a practice of "telling sad stories." Pushing beyond Trible, Texts after Terror offers a new framework for reading biblical sexual violence, one that draws on recent work in feminist, queer, and affect theory and activism against sexual violence and rape culture. In the Hebrew Bible as in the contemporary world, sexual violence is frequently fuzzy, messy, and icky. Fuzzy names the ambiguity and confusion that often surround experiences of sexual violence. Messy identifies the consequences of rape, while also describing messy sex and bodies. Icky points out the ways that sexual violence fails to fit into neat patterns of evil perpetrators and innocent victims. Building on these concepts, Texts after Terror offers a number of new feminist strategies and approaches to sexual violence: critiquing the framework of consent, offering new models of sexual harm, emphasizing the importance of relationships between women (even in the context of stories of heterosexual rape), reading biblical rape texts with and through contemporary texts written by survivors, advocating for "unhappy reading" that makes unhappiness and open-endedness into key feminist sites of possibility. Texts after Terror also discusses a wide range of biblical rape stories, including Dinah (Gen. 43), Tamar (2 Sam. 13), Lot's daughters (Gen. 19), Bathsheba (2 Sam. 11), Hagar (Gen. 16 and 21), Daughter Zion (Lam. 1 and 2), and the Levite's concubine (Judg. 19)"--