Narrating Rape

Shifting Perspectives in Biblical Literature and Popular Culture

L. Juliana M. Claassens, Rhiannon Graybill, Christl M. Maier (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

288 Seiten

2024
SCM Press (Verlag)
978-0-334-06625-5 (ISBN)

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Narrating Rape presents exciting new scholarship on how to read, wrestle with, and respond to sexual violence and rape in and around biblical texts. The fourteen essays represent global contributors and bring together respected senior scholars along with fresh emerging voices. Contributors take on sexual violence in the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament, as well as the ancient Near Eastern and Roman contexts that informed the production of these texts. There is also a significant focus on using contemporary literature, film, and popular culture (including reality television and music) to read and interpret biblical rape stories.

Contributors include: Alexiana Fry, Meredith Warren, Kirsi Cobb, David Tombs, Jeremy Punt, and Gerald West

L. Juliana M. Claassens is Professor of Old Testament at Stellenbosch University in South Africa. Rhiannon Graybill is the Marcus and Carole Weinstein and Gilbert and Fannie S. Rosenthal Chair of Jewish Studies and Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Richmond in Richmond, VA. Christl M. Maier has been Professor of Old Testament at Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany, since 2007.

Contributors

Introduction: On Narrating Rape
Rhiannon Graybill, L. Juliana Claassens, and Christl M. Maier

Part I: Stories of Rape in Bible and Popular Culture

1.Recovering from Rape? Lacuna (Fiona Snyckers) in Conversation with Daughter Zion in Isaiah 51.17—52.2
L. Juliana Claassens
2.‘Long Since Murdered’: Cozbi, The Kreutzer Sonata, and the Limits of Narrating Sexual Violence
Rhiannon Graybill
3.Consensual Sex or Rape? Bathsheba Encircled by Hegemonic Masculinity
Christl M. Maier
4.Women Talking and Women Not Talking: Speaking for(?) in Fiction and Judges 21
Alexiana Fry
5.Filling in the Gaps: Reading Hosea 1—3 with Francine Rivers’ Redeeming Love
Kirsi Cobb
6.Will You Accept This Rose? The Magic Circle in the Book of Esther
Steed V. Davidson
7.Rape Jokes, Sexual Violence, and Empire in Revelation and This Is The End
Meredith J. C. Warren

Part II: Rape and Sexual Violence in Ancient and Contemporary Contexts

8.Resistance, Rage, and Re-enactment: Trauma Responses in the Sumerian Rape Narratives
Renate Marian van Dijk-Coombes
9.Things Too Indecent to be Recorded: The Soldiers Mocking the Death of Herod Agrippa
David Tombs
10.‘Slaves of Christ’: Rape Culture in the New Testament
Jeremy Punt
11.‘Madoda Sabelani’ and Matthew 2.18: Lamenting Hegemonic Masculinity
Dewald Jacobs
12.The Poetics of Redacted Absence as Presence: Kin Eyes Hearing Tamar (2 Samuel 13) Gerald O. West
13.Under Rug Swept: Creating Space to Engage the Reality of Homophobic Hate Crimes in the South African Faith Landscape
Charlene van der Walt

Erscheinungsdatum	21.09.2024
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
ISBN-10	0-334-06625-5 / 0334066255
ISBN-13	978-0-334-06625-5 / 9780334066255
Zustand	Neuware