Sacred Witness: Rape in the Hebrew Bible - Hardcover

Scholz, Susanne

 
9780800638610: Sacred Witness: Rape in the Hebrew Bible

Synopsis

In this work, the author discusses the wide range of rape texts in biblical literature - some that long have but didn't, such as texts of marital rape, for example, or metaphorical speech about God as rapist.

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About the Author

Susanne Scholz is Professor of Old Testament at the Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University. A prolific author and editor, she has pioneered alternative approaches to biblical interpretation in such works as Sacred Witness: Rape in the Hebrew Bible (2010), The Bible as Political Artifact: On the Feminist Study of the Hebrew Bible (2017), and The New Diaspora and the Global Prophetic (coeditor, 2021), all from Fortress Press.

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