Narrating Rape
Shifting Perspectives in Biblical Literature and Popular Culture
Published on 30. September 2024
Book
Paperback/Softback
288 pages
978-0-334-06625-5 (ISBN)
Description
Narrating Rape presents exciting new scholarship on how to read, wrestle with, and respond to sexual violence and rape in and around biblical texts. The fourteen essays represent global contributors and bring together respected senior scholars along with fresh emerging voices. Contributors take on sexual violence in the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament, as well as the ancient Near Eastern and Roman contexts that informed the production of these texts. There is also a significant focus on using contemporary literature, film, and popular culture (including reality television and music) to read and interpret biblical rape stories.
Contributors include: Alexiana Fry, Meredith Warren, Kirsi Cobb, David Tombs, Jeremy Punt, and Gerald West
Contributors include: Alexiana Fry, Meredith Warren, Kirsi Cobb, David Tombs, Jeremy Punt, and Gerald West
Reviews / Votes
"...unflinching, informative, disruptive, and essential content and counsel in pushing back against rape and rape culture". -- Elna K. Solvang "Narrating Rape is a haunting volume, the creation of an international collaboration focused on the diverse ways sexual violence permeates realms of time and place. It serves up a tour-de-force of feminist criticism and inter-reading that confronts and interrogates sexual violence past, present and persistent." -- Johanna Stiebert "From Sumerian rape narratives to Revelation, Narrating Rape demonstrates the pervasiveness of sexual violence in the Bible through its broad range of texts and diverse approaches to the material. This compelling collection of essays interlaces literary threads from biblical narrative with insights from novels, films, poetry, and even dating shows. The authors delve into issues of trauma, agency, violence, and power, offering nuanced analyses of often overlooked biblical passages. Narrating Rape is both relevant and riveting-a crucial addition to any scholar's library." -- Christy Cobb "So much has changed over the last decades in the way we think about sexual assault. This is a much-needed volume in helping readers re-think what they thought they knew about how the Bible narrates assault, and about how we talk about it. Much to surprise and inform readers who care about the wholeness and flourishing of human beings everywhere." -- Jacqueline E. LapsleyMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
471 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-334-06625-5 (9780334066255)
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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-Universitaet Marburg, Germany, since 2007.
Christl M. Maier has been Professor of Old Testament at Philipps-Universitaet Marburg, Germany, since 2007.
Content
Contributors
Introduction: On Narrating Rape
Rhiannon Graybill, L. Juliana Claassens, and Christl M. Maier
Part I: Stories of Rape in Bible and Popular Culture
1. Recovering from Rape? Lacuna (Fiona Snyckers) in Conversation with Daughter Zion in Isaiah 51.17-52.2
L. Juliana Claassens
2. 'Long Since Murdered': Cozbi, The Kreutzer Sonata, and the Limits of Narrating Sexual Violence
Rhiannon Graybill
3. Consensual Sex or Rape? Bathsheba Encircled by Hegemonic Masculinity
Christl M. Maier
4. Women Talking and Women Not Talking: Speaking for(?) in Fiction and Judges 21
Alexiana Fry
5. Filling in the Gaps: Reading Hosea 1-3 with Francine Rivers' Redeeming Love
Kirsi Cobb
6. Will You Accept This Rose? The Magic Circle in the Book of Esther
Steed V. Davidson
7. Rape Jokes, Sexual Violence, and Empire in Revelation and This Is The End
Meredith J. C. Warren
Part II: Rape and Sexual Violence in Ancient and Contemporary Contexts
8. Resistance, Rage, and Re-enactment: Trauma Responses in the Sumerian Rape Narratives
Renate Marian van Dijk-Coombes
9. Things Too Indecent to be Recorded: The Soldiers Mocking the Death of Herod Agrippa
David Tombs
10. 'Slaves of Christ': Rape Culture in the New Testament
Jeremy Punt
11. 'Madoda Sabelani' and Matthew 2.18: Lamenting Hegemonic Masculinity
Dewald Jacobs
12. The Poetics of Redacted Absence as Presence: Kin Eyes Hearing Tamar (2 Samuel 13) Gerald O. West
13. Under Rug Swept: Creating Space to Engage the Reality of Homophobic Hate Crimes in the South African Faith Landscape
Charlene van der Walt
Introduction: On Narrating Rape
Rhiannon Graybill, L. Juliana Claassens, and Christl M. Maier
Part I: Stories of Rape in Bible and Popular Culture
1. Recovering from Rape? Lacuna (Fiona Snyckers) in Conversation with Daughter Zion in Isaiah 51.17-52.2
L. Juliana Claassens
2. 'Long Since Murdered': Cozbi, The Kreutzer Sonata, and the Limits of Narrating Sexual Violence
Rhiannon Graybill
3. Consensual Sex or Rape? Bathsheba Encircled by Hegemonic Masculinity
Christl M. Maier
4. Women Talking and Women Not Talking: Speaking for(?) in Fiction and Judges 21
Alexiana Fry
5. Filling in the Gaps: Reading Hosea 1-3 with Francine Rivers' Redeeming Love
Kirsi Cobb
6. Will You Accept This Rose? The Magic Circle in the Book of Esther
Steed V. Davidson
7. Rape Jokes, Sexual Violence, and Empire in Revelation and This Is The End
Meredith J. C. Warren
Part II: Rape and Sexual Violence in Ancient and Contemporary Contexts
8. Resistance, Rage, and Re-enactment: Trauma Responses in the Sumerian Rape Narratives
Renate Marian van Dijk-Coombes
9. Things Too Indecent to be Recorded: The Soldiers Mocking the Death of Herod Agrippa
David Tombs
10. 'Slaves of Christ': Rape Culture in the New Testament
Jeremy Punt
11. 'Madoda Sabelani' and Matthew 2.18: Lamenting Hegemonic Masculinity
Dewald Jacobs
12. The Poetics of Redacted Absence as Presence: Kin Eyes Hearing Tamar (2 Samuel 13) Gerald O. West
13. Under Rug Swept: Creating Space to Engage the Reality of Homophobic Hate Crimes in the South African Faith Landscape
Charlene van der Walt