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Gendered Violence in Biblical Narrative

Author : Esther Brownsmith
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040015050
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Gendered Violence in Biblical Narrative written by Esther Brownsmith and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-04-15 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Rape Culture, Gender Violence, and Religion

Author : Caroline Blyth
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319706691
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (197 download)

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Download or read book Rape Culture, Gender Violence, and Religion written by Caroline Blyth and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-02-14 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Bible and Gender-based Violence in Botswana

Author : Mmapula Diana Kebaneilwe
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040022669
Total Pages : 81 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book The Bible and Gender-based Violence in Botswana written by Mmapula Diana Kebaneilwe and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-04-01 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bible and Gender-based Violence in Botswana foregrounds the rampancy of gender-based violence against women and girls in biblical texts and how it resonates with gender-based violence (GBV) in the author’s contemporary context of Botswana. The volume reads selected texts from the Bible alongside newspaper reports of GBV against women and girls in Botswana to show that while the Bible is taken as an authoritative text within the Botswana context, it is riddled with GBV against female persons. It asserts that by acknowledging and naming GBV in biblical texts and not concealing, ignoring, or spiritualizing it, contemporary communities of faith will be able to confront the problem in these contexts. By so doing, the book argues, the Bible will become a resource for positive transformation rather than a tool for supporting gender injustice. The book appeals to everyone willing to see positive change in regard to gender in/equality and is intended for a wide readership including researchers, postgraduates, church and other representatives of religious institutions, and upper-level undergraduates.

Contextual Bible Study Manual on Gender-Based Violence

Author : Fred Nyabera
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780615857572
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (575 download)

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Download or read book Contextual Bible Study Manual on Gender-Based Violence written by Fred Nyabera and published by . This book was released on 2007-02-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book invites you to consider Gender-Based Violence from a biblical perspective as it relates to your life and context.

Sexual Violence and Sacred Texts

Author : Amy Kalmanofsky
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1725288958
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (252 download)

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Download or read book Sexual Violence and Sacred Texts written by Amy Kalmanofsky and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2020-10-21 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Dinah's Lament

Author : Joy A. Schroeder
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0800638433
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Dinah's Lament written by Joy A. Schroeder and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a searching and sensitive exploration of the ways Christians through the centuries read biblical narratives about sexual violence, Joy A. Schroeder opens new Windows into the history of the church's attitudes about rape. Dinah's Lament raises important questions about the ways Christian readers may continue to shield the Bible from criticism and reinforce patterns of subjugation, silencing, and violence against women. Book jacket.

Trafficking Hadassah

Author : Ericka Shawndricka Dunbar
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000530035
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Trafficking Hadassah written by Ericka Shawndricka Dunbar and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-11-11 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The representation of sexual trafficking in the book of Esther has parallels with the cultural memories, histories, and materialized pain of African(a) girls and women across time and space, from the Persian Empire, to subsequent slave trade routes and beyond. Trafficking Hadassah illuminates that Africana female bodies have been and continue to be colonized and sexualized, exploited for profit and pleasure, causing adverse physical, mental, sexual, socio-cultural, and spiritual consequences for the girls and women concerned. It focuses on sexual trafficking both in the biblical book of Esther and during the transatlantic slave trade to demonstrate how gender and racism intersect with other forms of oppression, including legal oppression, which results in the sexual trafficking of African(a) females. It examines both the conditions and mechanisms by which the trafficking of the virgin girls (who are collectively identified) are legitimated and normalized in the book of Esther, alongside contemporary histories of Africana females. This important book examines ideologies and stereotypes that are used to justify the abuse in both contexts, challenges the complicity of biblical readers and interpreters in violence against girls and women, and illustrates how attention to the nameless, faceless African girls in the text is impacted by the #MeToo and #SayHerName social movements. This book will be of particular interest to those studying the Bible, religion, gender, theology, and sex trafficking. It is also an important book for those in the related fields of Africana Studies, Trauma Studies, Post-Colonial Studies, Diaspora Studies, Critical Race Studies, as well as to the general reader.

Engaging the Bible in a Gendered World

Author : Linda Day
Publisher : Presbyterian Publishing Corp
ISBN 13 : 0664229107
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (642 download)

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Download or read book Engaging the Bible in a Gendered World written by Linda Day and published by Presbyterian Publishing Corp. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Uncovering Violence

Author : Amy Cottrill
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN 13 : 1646982185
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (469 download)

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Download or read book Uncovering Violence written by Amy Cottrill and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 2021-10-26 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is no surprise that the Bible is filled with stories of violence, having come into being through the crucible of trauma, cultural conflict, and warfare. But the more obvious acts of physical or sexual violence in the Hebrew Bible often overshadow its subtler forms throughout Scripture and belie the variety of perspectives on violence embedded in biblical narratives. This hinders readers' ability to recognize the full spectrum of human engagement with violence, both in texts and in their lived experiences. Uncovering Violence: Reading Biblical Narratives as an Ethical Project seeks to provide a theoretical vocabulary for the various forms that violence can take—including textual violence, interpretive violence, moral injury, and slow violence—and to offer a fresh ethical reading of violence in the biblical text. Focusing on four narratives from the Hebrew Bible, Cottrill uses the approach of narrative ethics to lay out the many ways that stories can make moral claims on readers, not by delivering a discrete "lesson" or takeaway but by making transformative contact with readers and involving them in a more embodied dialogue with the text. Exploring the narratives of Jael’s killing of Sisera, the toxic masculinity of Samson, environmental devastation and failures of legal systems in Ruth, and Abigail’s mediation with King David, Uncovering Violence presents strategies for reading that allow for this close encounter. In doing so, it helps prepare readers to better recognize, interpret, and even respond to violence and its many effects within and beyond the text.

Justice Not Silence

Author : Ezra Chitando
Publisher : AFRICAN SUN MeDIA
ISBN 13 : 1920689001
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book Justice Not Silence written by Ezra Chitando and published by AFRICAN SUN MeDIA. This book was released on 2013-09-01 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The editors of this volume highlight the fact that although the Church often stands up for other public issues such as human rights, democratic political rights, economic justice, etc., sexual and gender-based violence do not receive the attention they deserve. There are no theological or cultural arguments that can justify such a position. Sexual and gender-based violence are a scourge that defies our Christian understanding of human dignity ? and challenges the Church in all its formations to respond. ÿAlthough most of the case studies are from Zimbabwe, they challenge us regardless of which country we are living in ? or the tradition of our specific denomination.ÿ In the context of Southern Africa, where the HIV and AIDS burden is among the highest in the world, sexual and gender-based violence are a major contributor to the spread of the disease. This will only change if the Church challenges this practice as part of its educational and public work ? in theological institutions, in congregations, but also in its pastoral work within families.ÿ

Texts of Terror

Author : Phyllis Trible
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788304890602
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book Texts of Terror written by Phyllis Trible and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Professor Trible focuses on four variations upon the theme of terror in the Bible. By combining the discipline of literary criticism with the hermeneutics of feminism, she reinterprets the tragic stories of four women in ancient Israel: Hagar, Tamar, an unnamed concubine, and the daughter of Jephthah. In highlighting the silence, absence, and oppostition of God, as well as human cruelty, Trible shows how these neglected stories-interpreted in memoriam-challenge both the misogyny of Scripture and its use in church, synagogue, and academy."--Back cover.

Fragmented Women

Author : J. Cheryl Exum
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 0567198073
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (671 download)

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Download or read book Fragmented Women written by J. Cheryl Exum and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the biblical narratives, women are usually minor characters in the stories of men. Fragments of women's stories must be gleaned from the more cohesive stories of their fathers, husbands and sons. Fragmented Women begins with the premise that, to recover shards of women's stories from androcentric texts like the Bible, it is necessary to step outside the ideology of the text, subverting the patriarchal perspective that has focused attention on the male characters. In this important new work, the author draws on contemporary feminist literary theory to critique the dominant male voice of the biblical narrative and to construct (sub)versions of women's stories from the submerged strains of their voices in men's stories.

Violence to Eternity

Author : Grace M. Jantzen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134437196
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (344 download)

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Download or read book Violence to Eternity written by Grace M. Jantzen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-11-14 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grace Jantzen continues her groundbreaking analysis of death and beauty in Western thought by examining the religious roots of death and violence in the Jewish and Christian traditions which underlie contemporary values.

Transgression and Transformation

Author : L. Juliana Claassens
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0567696286
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (676 download)

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Download or read book Transgression and Transformation written by L. Juliana Claassens and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-07-15 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume on feminist, postcolonial and queer biblical interpretation gathers perspectives from a global body of researchers; in offering innovative interpretations of key texts from the Hebrew Bible, both established and emerging biblical scholars consider the question of how commonplace interpretative practices may be considered to be transgressive in nature. Utilizing innovative strategies, they read against the grain of the text and in support of the marginalized, the subordinated or subaltern others both in the text and in our world today. Important questions regarding power and privilege are constantly raised: whose voices are being heard, and whose interests are being served? Knowing all too well the harm that stereotypical constructions of the Other can do in terms of feeding racism, sexism, homophobia and imperialism in their respective interpretative communities, the essays in this volume interrogate constructions of ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, and class, both in the text as well as in their respective contexts. By means of these thought-provoking interpretations, the contributors show their commitment not merely the sake of scholarship but to a scholarly ethos, which in some shape or form contributes to the cultivation of more just, equitable societies.

Violence Against Women and Children

Author : Carol J. Adams
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 0826408303
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (264 download)

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Download or read book Violence Against Women and Children written by Carol J. Adams and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1995-11-01 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Violence against women and children has reached epidemic proportions. It cuts across all economic strata and is found in our urban centers and the farthest corners of the nation. This is the only sourcebook on domestic violence for clergy and counselors.

The Bible as Political Artifact

Author : Susanne Sholza
Publisher : Fortress Press
ISBN 13 : 1506420486
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book The Bible as Political Artifact written by Susanne Sholza and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2017-10-15 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biblical studies and the teaching of biblical studies are clearly changing, though it is less clear what the changes mean and how we should evaluate them. Susanne Scholz casts a feminist eye on the politics of pedagogy, higher education, and wider society, decrypting important developments in "the architecture of educational power." She also examines how the increasingly intercultural, interreligious, and diasporic dynamics in society inform the hermeneutical and methodological possibilities for biblical exegesis. Taken as a whole, the fourteen chapters demonstrate that the foregrounding of gender, placed into its intersectional contexts, offers intriguing and valuable alternative ways of seeing the world and the Bible‘s place in it.

The Bible and Sexual Violence Against Men

Author : Chris Greenough
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000200108
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book The Bible and Sexual Violence Against Men written by Chris Greenough and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-10-22 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At least 1 in 6 men have experienced some form of sexual violence. The Bible and Sexual Violence Against Men argues that the shame and stigma around male sexual abuse are interwoven with contemporary social and cultural concepts of masculinity, and are also found in the ancient world and biblical texts themselves. This book is interdisciplinary and has three main areas of exploration: #MenToo? Exploring the myths around sexual violence against men Sexual violence against men in the Hebrew Bible Reading Jesus’ enforced nudity at the crucifixion as sexual violence. Given the enduring importance of the Bible in contemporary society, this book explores the biblical texts that depict sexual violence against men. It examines critical approaches from theology, biblical, and religious studies perspectives, while also exploring insights from the fields of sociology, psychology, and criminology as well as referring to legal cases and legislation, charity work, and media-focussed articles. In seeking to serve a number of interested readers, including those who are not familiar with the Bible, short summaries of the biblical texts under discussion are given in each case.