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Telling Terror in Judges 19: Rape and Reparation for the Levite's Wife

Telling Terror in Judges 19: Rape and Reparation for the Levite's Wife

Paynter, Helen

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Series: Rape Culture, Religion and the Bible

Bible StudiesWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 1032337060
ISBN13: 9781032337067
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jun 13 2022
Pages: 100
Weight: 0.25
Height: 0.30 Width: 5.20 Depth: 8.40
Language: English

Telling Terror in Judges 19 explores the value of performing a 'reparative reading' of the terror-filled story of the Levite's pilegesh (commonly referred to as the Levite's concubine) in Judges 19, and how such a reparative reading can be brought to bear upon elements of modern rape culture. Historically, the story has been used as a morality tale to warn young women about what constitutes appropriate behaviour. More recently, (mainly male) commentators have tended to write the woman out of the story, by making claims about its purpose and theme which bear no relation to her suffering. In response to this, feminist critics have attempted to write the woman back into the story, generally using the hermeneutics of suspicion. This book begins by surveying some of the traditional commentators, and the three great feminist commentators of the text (Bal, Exum and Trible). It then offers a reparative reading by attending to the pilegesh's surprising prominence, her moral and marital agency, and her speaking voice. In the final chapter, there is a detailed comparison of the story with elements of modern rape culture.

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