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Sex, Violence, and Early Christian Texts

Sex, Violence, and Early Christian Texts

Cobb, Christy
Cobb, Christy
Vanden Eykel, Eric

Hardcover

Bible StudiesGeneral ChristianityGeneral Gender Studies

ISBN10: 1793637849
ISBN13: 9781793637840
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: Oct 3 2022
Pages: 298
Weight: 1.34
Height: 0.81 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Examples of sexual violence and mentions of it appear with a disturbing level of frequency in the literature of early Christianity. This collection of essays explores these occurrences in canonical and noncanonical Christian texts from the first until the fifth centuries CE. Drawing from a range of interpretive lenses, scholars of early Christianity approach these writings with the goal of identifying how their authors employ the language of sexual assault, rape, and violence in order to formulate and support various rhetorical and theological claims. Individual chapters also address how and why these episodes of sexual violence have been ignored or, sometimes, read in a way that would make them less problematic. As a collection, Sex, Violence, and Early Christian Texts examines these texts carefully, ethically, and with an eye toward shining a light on the scourge of sexual violence that is so often manifest in both ancient and contemporary Christian communities.

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