Overview

This book explores the Bible’s ongoing relevance in contemporary discussions around rape culture and gender violence. Each chapter considers the ways that biblical texts and themes engage with various forms of gender violence, including the subjective, physical violence of rape, the symbolic violence of misogynistic and heteronormative discourses, and the structural violence of patriarchal power systems. The authors within this volume attempt to name (and shame) the multiple forms of gender violence present within the biblical traditions, contesting the erasure of this violence within both the biblical texts themselves and their interpretive traditions. They also consider the complex connections between biblical gender violence and the perpetuation and validation of rape culture in contemporary popular culture. This volume invites new and ongoing conversations about the Bible’s complicity in rape-supportive cultures and practices, challenging readers to read these texts in light of theglobal crisis of gender violence.

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Author:   Caroline Blyth ,  Emily Colgan ,  Katie B. Edwards
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint:   Springer International Publishing AG
Edition:   Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9783319889771

ISBN 10:   331988977
Pages:   220
Publication Date:   04 June 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

1: Introduction.- 2: For Precious Girls Everywhere: Lamentations, HIV, and Precious.- 3: Brother, Sister, Rape: The Hebrew Bible and Popular Culture.- 4: Queering the Virgin/Whore Binary: The Virgin Mary, the Whore of Babylon, and Sexual Violence .- 5: Rape Culture Discourse and Female Impurity: Genesis 34 as a Case Study.- 6: Andrea Dworkin on the Biblical Foundations of Violence against Women.- 7: Twelve Steps to the Tent of Zimri: An Imaginarium.- 8: Abandonment, Rape, and Second Abandonment: Hannah Baker in 13 Reasons Why and the Royal Concubines in 2 Samuel 15-20 .- 9: “To Ransom a Man’s Soul”: Male Rape and Gender Identity in Outlander and “The Suffering Man” of Lamentations 3.- 10: Homophobia and Rape Culture in the Narratives of Early Israel.- 11: Marriage, Love, or Consensual Sex? Feminist Engagements with Biblical Rape Texts in Light of Title IX .- 12: Tough Conversations: Teaching Biblical Gender Violence inAotearoa New Zealand.

Reviews

The book will be used for its individual essays rather than as a textbook on 'rape culture and the Bible'. Each of the essays warrants careful reading and intentional sharing, particularly in a world reshaped by the Covid-19 pandemic in ways that have made rape cultures and their consequences even more evident. (Gerald O. West, Journal of Theology for Southern Africa, Issue 167, July, 2020)

“The book will be used for its individual essays rather than as a textbook on ‘rape culture and the Bible’. Each of the essays warrants careful reading and intentional sharing, particularly in a world reshaped by the Covid-19 pandemic in ways that have made rape cultures and their consequences even more evident.” (Gerald O. West, Journal of Theology for Southern  Africa, Issue 167, July, 2020)

Author Information

Caroline Blyth is Senior Lecturer in Religious Studies at the University of Auckland. Recent publications include Reimagining Delilah’s Afterlives as Femme Fatale (2017). She is co-editor of the Bible and Critical Theory journal, and founding member of the Shiloh Project, an interdisciplinary research group studying gender violence and religion. Emily Colgan is Lecturer in Theology at Trinity Methodist Theological College, Auckland, and contributor to the Shiloh Project. Katie B. Edwards is Director of the Sheffield Institute for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies and Senior Lecturer in the School of English, University of Sheffield. She is current co-editor of the Biblical Reception journal, and founding member of the Shiloh Project.

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