Sacred witness : rape in the Hebrew Bible /
"In Sacred Witness, Susanne Scholz discusses the wide range of rape texts in biblical literature-some that long have troubled readers, others that should have but didn't, such as texts of marital rape, for example, or metaphorical speech about God as rapist. Assuming the androcentric natur...
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Minneapolis, Minnesota :
Fortress Press,
2010.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : a promise for a blessing
- Breaking the silence : the legacy of acquaintance rape
- Subjugated by gender and class : the rape of enslaved women
- Controlling wives : marital rape fantasies
- Regulating rape : the case of biblical and ancient Near Eastern laws
- Gang raping : on the culture of misogyny during peace and war
- Losing power : the rape of men as male fear and reality
- Resisting the theology of a rapist : against the poetics of rape in prophetic literature
- Conclusion : the blessing of a sacred witness.