Narrating Rape

L. Juliana M. Claassens is Professor of Old Testament at Stellenbosch University in South Africa. Rhiannon Graybill is the Marcus and Carole Weinstein and Gilbert and Fannie S. Rosenthal Chair of Jewish Studies and Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Richmond in Richmond, VA. Christl M. Maier has been Professor of Old Testament at Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany, since 2007.

"...unflinching, informative, disruptive, and essential content and counsel in pushing back against rape and rape culture".

• ContributorsIntroduction: On Narrating RapeRhiannon Graybill, L. Juliana Claassens, and Christl M. MaierPart I: Stories of Rape in Bible and Popular Culture1.Recovering from Rape? Lacuna (Fiona Snyckers) in Conversation with Daughter Zion in Isaiah 51.17—52.2L. Juliana Claassens2.‘Long Since Murdered’: Cozbi, The Kreutzer Sonata, and the Limits of Narrating Sexual ViolenceRhiannon Graybill3.Consensual Sex or Rape? Bathsheba Encircled by Hegemonic MasculinityChristl M. Maier4.Women Talking and Women Not Talking: Speaking for(?) in Fiction and Judges 21 Alexiana Fry5.Filling in the Gaps: Reading Hosea 1—3 with Francine Rivers’ Redeeming Love Kirsi Cobb6.Will You Accept This Rose? The Magic Circle in the Book of EstherSteed V. Davidson7.Rape Jokes, Sexual Violence, and Empire in Revelation and This Is The EndMeredith J. C. WarrenPart II: Rape and Sexual Violence in Ancient and Contemporary Contexts8.Resistance, Rage, and Re-enactment: Trauma Responses in the Sumerian Rape NarrativesRenate Marian van Dijk-Coombes9.Things Too Indecent to be Recorded: The Soldiers Mocking the Death of Herod Agrippa David Tombs10.‘Slaves of Christ’: Rape Culture in the New Testament Jeremy Punt11.‘Madoda Sabelani’ and Matthew 2.18: Lamenting Hegemonic Masculinity Dewald Jacobs12.The Poetics of Redacted Absence as Presence: Kin Eyes Hearing Tamar (2 Samuel 13) Gerald O. West13.Under Rug Swept: Creating Space to Engage the Reality of Homophobic Hate Crimes in the South African Faith LandscapeCharlene van der Walt