Texts after Terror

Rape, Sexual Violence, and the Hebrew Bible

AvRhiannon Graybill

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

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Beskrivning

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 discourse about sexual violence and rape culture. Graybill responds to this disconnect by engaging contemporary conversations about rape culture, sexual violence, and #MeToo, arguing that rape and sexual violence - both in the Bible and in contemporary culture - are frequently fuzzy, messy, and icky, and that we need to take these features seriously. Texts after Terror offers a new framework informed by contemporary conversations about sexual violence, writings by victims and survivors, and feminist, queer, and affect theory. In addition, Graybill offers significant new readings of biblical rape stories, including Dinah (Gen. 34), Tamar (2 Sam. 13), Bathsheba (2 Sam. 11), Hagar (Gen. 16), Daughter Zion (Lam. 1-2), and the unnamed woman known as the Levite's concubine (Judges 19). Texts after Terror urges feminist biblical scholars and readers of all sorts to take seriously sexual violence and rape, while also holding space for new ways of reading these texts that go beyond terror, considering what might come after.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2021-09-07
Mått:163 x 236 x 20 mm
Vikt:544 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:246
Förlag:OUP USA
ISBN:9780190082314
Utmärkelser:Co-Winner, Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion Textual Studies, American Academy of Religion

Utforska kategorier

Biblar inom Filosofi och religion
Religion: allmänt inom Filosofi och religion
Genusvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Rhiannon Graybill is W.J. Millard Professor of Religion and Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Rhodes College in Memphis, TN.

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The volume moves beyond the usual feminist approaches to these stories and, as such, is bound to stimulate further discussion and reflection.

Innehållsförteckning

AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Reading Sexual Violence1. Fuzzy, Messy, Icky: How to Read a Rape Story2. The Edges of Consent: Dinah, Tamar, and Lot's Daughters3. Narrating Harm in the Bathsheba Story: Predation, Peremption, and Silence4. Rape and Other Ways of Reading: Hagar and Sarah in the Company of Women5. A Grittier Daughter Zion: Lamentations and the Archive of Rape Stories6. Sad Stories and Unhappy ReadingConclusion: After TerrorBibliographyIndex