Author: Karen Witker
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 36

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Author: Leah Rediger Schulte
Publisher: Fortress Press
ISBN: 1506432581
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 173

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In this groundbreaking work to identify and address God’s absence in three key rape narratives in the Hebrew Bible, Leah Rediger Schulte finds a pattern that indicates a larger community crisis. With a careful look at Genesis 34, Judges 19, and 2 Samuel 13, this study outlines God’s absence, a foreign presence, and a persistent problem that is resolved incorrectly to highlight consequences of the Israelites breaking their covenant with God. Using methodologies from literary criticism and gender studies and situating rape in its historical context, this volume makes distinctions between modern constructs of rape and biblical rape. Commentaries and studies on rape in the Bible often read a modern understanding of the victim and rapist back into the biblical text, missing how it would have been understood in ancient Israel. These biblical rape scenes are intimately connected to and assist in telling the story of Israel’s history as a people and their covenantal relationship with their deity.

Author: Frank M. Yamada
Publisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 9781433101670
Category : Bibles
Languages : en
Pages : 186

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In Configurations of Rape in the Hebrew Bible, Frank M. Yamada explores the compelling similarity among three rape narratives found in the Hebrew Scriptures. These three stories the rape of Dinah (Genesis 34), the rape of an unnamed concubine (Judges 19), and the rape of Tamar, daughter of David (2 Samuel 13) move through the same plot progression: an initial sexual violation of a woman leads to escalating violence among men, resulting in some form of social fragmentation. In this intriguing study, Yamada draws from the disciplines of literary and narrative criticism, feminist biblical interpretation, and cultural anthropology to argue for a family resemblance among these three stories about rape."

Author: Mary Anna Bader
Publisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 9780820478739
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 222

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Mary Anna Bader considers the implications of these narratives in the current context, citing patterns of student reactions to these texts and teaching opportunities.

Author: Lydia Einenkel
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
ISBN: 3656499020
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 12

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Essay from the year 2010 in the subject Theology - Biblical Theology, grade: 1,7, University of Edinburgh (School of Divinity), course: Old Testament 2, language: English, abstract: Die vorliegende Arbeit thematisiert die Vergewaltigung Tamars durch ihren Halbbruder, wie sie in der Hebräischen Bibel 2 Sam 13:1-22 geschildert wird. Der Fokus der Analyse liegt auf der Rekonstruktion der Hauptaussage des Textes. Dabei wird deutlich, dass es sich nicht nur um die Gewaltszene handelt, die vordergründig stattfindet. Viele Wissenschaftler vertreten die These, dass die Vergewaltigung Tamars ein literarisches Mittel ist, um den Plot voran zu treiben und eine logische Begründung für nachfolgende Ereignisse zu geben. Es gehe eigentlich nicht um Tamar, sondern um Absalom. Die Autorin dieser Arbeit legt den Fokus wieder auf Tamar und beleuchtet mit einer postmodernen Herangehensweise die hintergründigen Ungleichheiten der Gesellschaft vor allem in Bezug auf das Geschlechterverhältnis. Die Vergewaltigung Tamars wird so zu einem Sinnbild von einer patriarchalen Kultur und dem Zusammenspiel von Macht und Gewalt.

Author: Gavi S. Ruit
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1978702051
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 195

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The Story of Dinah examines the intersection of rape culture and Jewish tradition by tracing over two thousand years of Jewish commentary on Genesis 34. Using a definition of rape derived from the Hebrew Bible, Ruit scrutinizes the commentaries on the text for reflections of what would be deemed “rape myths” today. This book journeys through time and tradition as it uncovers the evolution of Jewish thought regarding women, rape, and women who have been violated. Every period examined, from the biblical account and the intertestamental writings all the way through to present day, reveals surprising and powerful insights about Jewish tradition and its attitudes towards women and sexual violation.

Author: Esther Fuchs
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 0567042871
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 245

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This book is for anyone interested in religious studies and women's studies, as well as for biblical scholars. It offers a feminist oppositional reading of the biblical text. The main argument is that the Bible constructs a fictional universe in which women are shown to be intent on promoting male interests, and, for the most part, appear as secondary characters whose voice and point of view are often suppressed. In their limited roles as mothers, wives, daughters and sisters, women are constructed as male-dependent pawns intent on securing the status of their male counterparts. The Biblical narrative highlights the contribution of women as reproductive agents and protectors of sons. In this challenging collection of essays, Fuchs focuses on type-scenes as a way of demonstrating the mechanisms by which the texts validates male power and superiority. She also deconstructs the Biblical sexual politics by asking whose interest is being served by the 'good' women of the Bible.Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement series, Volume 310.

Author: Ingolf U. Dalferth
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
ISBN: 9783161502057
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 252

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Safeguarding the distinction between God and world has always been a basic interest of negative theology. But sometimes it has overemphasized divine transcendence in a way that made it difficult to account for the sense of God's present activity and experienced actuality. Criticisms of the Western metaphysics of presence have made this even more difficult to conceive. On the other hand, there has been a widespread attempt in recent years to base all theology on (religious) experience; the Christian church celebrates God's presence in its central sacraments of baptism and Eucharist; process thought has re-conceptualized God's presence in panentheistic terms; and some have argued that God might be poly-present, not omnipresent. But what does it mean to say that God is present or absent? For Jews, Christians, and Moslems alike God is not an inference, an absentee entity of which we can detect only faint traces in our world. On the contrary, God is present reality, indeed the most present of all realities. However, belief in God's presence cannot ignore the widespread experience of God's absence. Moreover, there is little sense in speaking of God's absence if it cannot be distinguished from God's non-presence or non-existence. So how are we to understand the sense of divine presence and absence in religious and everyday life? This is what the essays in this volume explore in the biblical traditions, in Jewish and Christian theology and philosophy, and in contemporary philosophy of religion.

Author: Janice P. De-Whyte
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 900436630X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 332

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In this book Janice Ewurama De-Whyte offers a reading of the Hebrew Bible barrenness narratives. Barrenness was the threat to female honour and the lineage’s continuity. Therefore, the word “wom(b)an” visually underscores the centrality of the productive womb to female identity.

Author: Susanne Scholz
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0567577082
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 154

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This book introduces readers to the diverse field of feminist studies on the Hebrew Bible. Not organized as a traditional introduction to the "Old Testament," the manuscript does not follow a biblical book-by-book structure, but provides an introductory survey of the history and issues as they relate to feminist readings and readers of the Hebrew Bible. Accordingly, feminist scholars of the Bible, their career struggles, and biblical texts, characters, and themes stand in the forefront of this introduction. The volume is biased toward "Western" feminist scholarship because of the historical developments of feminist scholarship in general and biblical studies in particular. Yet, the chapters also include African, Asian, and Latin American perspectives on feminist studies of the Hebrew Bible. In short, the book offers an overview on the historical, social, and academic developments of reading the Hebrew Bible as the "Women's Hebrew Bible."