The absence of God in Biblical rape narratives / Leah Rediger Schulte.
Series: Emerging scholars | Emerging scholarsPublication details: Minneapolis, Minnesota : Fortress Press, 2017Description: viii, 165 pages ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781506428130
- 1506428134
- 9781506432571
- 1506432573
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Minimal Level Cataloging Plus. DLC
Revision of author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Claremont Graduate University.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-162) and index.
Defining rape -- The Levite's Pîlegeš -- Tamar -- The four elements of biblical rape -- Dinah -- Bathsheba -- Implications for biblical rape.
In this groundbreaking work to identify and address God's absence in three key rape narratives in the Hebrew Bible, Leah Rediger Schulte finds a pattern that indicates a larger community crisis. With a careful look at Genesis 34, Judges 19, and 2 Samuel 13, this study outlines God's absence, a foreign presence, and a persistent problem that is resolved incorrectly to highlight consequences of the Israelites breaking their covenant with God. Using methodologies from literary criticism and gender studies and situating rape in its historical context, this volume makes distinctions between modern constructs of rape and biblical rape. Commentaries and studies on rape in the Bible often read a modern understanding of the victim and rapist back into the biblical text, missing how it would have been understood in ancient Israel. These biblical rape scenes are intimately connected to and assist in telling the story of Israel's history as a people and their covenantal relationship with their deity.
