Texts after terror : rape, sexual violence, and the Hebrew Bible /

Texts after Terror offers an important new theory of rape and sexual violence in the Hebrew Bible. While the Bible is filled with stories of rape, scholarly approaches to sexual violence in the scriptures remain exhausted, dated, and in some cases even un-feminist, lagging far behind contemporary di...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Graybill, Rhiannon, 1984- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2021]
Subjects:	Bible. > Old Testament > Criticism, interpretation, etc. Bible > Feminist criticism. Bible > Critique féministe. Bible. Bible. > Old Testament. Bible > Criticism, interpretation, etc. Rape in the Bible. Sex crimes. Sex Offenses Viol dans la Bible. Crimes sexuels. Feminist criticism. Sex crimes > Biblical teaching. Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Reading sexual violence
Fuzzy, messy, icky: how to read a rape story
The edges of consent: Dinah, Tamar, and Lot's daughters
Narrating harm in the Bathsheba story: predation, peremption, and silence
Rape and other ways of reading: Hagar and Sarah in the company of women
A grittier daughter Zion: lamentations and the archive of rape stories
Sad stories and unhappy reading
Conclusion: After terror.