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Sacred Witness

Rape in the Hebrew Bible
  • ISBN-13: 9781451488050
  • Publisher: AUGSBURG FORTRESS PUBLISHERS
    Imprint: FORTRESS PRESS
  • By Susanne Scholz
  • Price: AUD $75.99
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  • Local release date: 01/04/2014
  • Format: Paperback (229.00mm X 152.00mm) 296 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Biblical studies & exegesis [HRCG]
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In Sacred Witness, Susanne Scholz discusses the wide range of rape texts in biblical literature - some that long have troubled readers, others that should have but didn't, such as texts of marital rape, for example, or metaphorical speech about God as rapist. Assuming the androcentric nature of these writings, Scholz asks how we may read these texts in order to find some redemptive meaning for women, children, and men who have been injured by sexual violence and by "cultures of rape." Sacred Witness provides illuminating reflection on some of the most troubling texts in the Hebrew Bible.
Susanne Scholz holds a Ph.D. in Old Testament from Union Theological Seminary and teaches Old Testament/Hebrew Bible at Perkins School of Theology/SMU in Dallas. She is the author of Introducing the Women's Hebrew Bible (2007) and Biblical Studies Alternatively an Introductory Reader (2003).
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