Sacred Witness

In Sacred Witness, Susanne Scholz discusses the wide range of rape texts in biblical literaturesome 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.

Author: Susanne Scholz
Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Publishing
Published: 04/01/2014
Pages: 296
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.88lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.62d
ISBN: 9781451488050

About the Author
Scholz, Susanne: -

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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