Texts after Terror

Rape, Sexual Violence, and the Hebrew Bible

AvRhiannon Graybill

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

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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:2023-12-19
Mått:236 x 158 x 8 mm
Vikt:363 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:248
Förlag:OUP USA
ISBN:9780197764114
Utmärkelser:Co-Winner, Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion Textual Studies, American Academy of Religion

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Religion: allmänt inom Filosofi och religion
Kristendom inom Filosofi och religion

Mer om författaren

Rhiannon Graybill is Marcus M. and Carole M. Weinstein and Gilbert M. and Fannie S. Rosenthal Chair of Jewish Studies and professor of Religious Studies at the University of Richmond. She is the author of Texts after Terror: Rape, Sexual Violence, and the Hebrew Bible (Oxford, 2021) and Are We Not Men?: Unstable Masculinity in the Hebrew Prophets (Oxford, 2016). She is the co-author (with John Kaltner and Steven L. McKenzie) of Jonah: A New Translation with Notes and Commentary (Yale Anchor Bible, 2023).

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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