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Author Graybill, Rhiannon, 1984- author.

Title Texts after terror : rape, sexual violence, and the Hebrew Bible / Rhiannon Graybill
Published New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2021]
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Description 1 online resource (x, 234 pages)
Summary "It is widely recognized that the Hebrew Bible is filled with rape and sexual violence. However, feminist approaches to the topic remain dominated by Phyllis Trible's 1984 Texts of Terror, which describes feminist criticism as a practice of "telling sad stories." Pushing beyond Trible, Texts after Terror offers a new framework for reading biblical sexual violence, one that draws on recent work in feminist, queer, and affect theory and activism against sexual violence and rape culture. In the Hebrew Bible as in the contemporary world, sexual violence is frequently fuzzy, messy, and icky. Fuzzy names the ambiguity and confusion that often surround experiences of sexual violence. Messy identifies the consequences of rape, while also describing messy sex and bodies. Icky points out the ways that sexual violence fails to fit into neat patterns of evil perpetrators and innocent victims. Building on these concepts, Texts after Terror offers a number of new feminist strategies and approaches to sexual violence: critiquing the framework of consent, offering new models of sexual harm, emphasizing the importance of relationships between women (even in the context of stories of heterosexual rape), reading biblical rape texts with and through contemporary texts written by survivors, advocating for "unhappy reading" that makes unhappiness and open-endedness into key feminist sites of possibility. Texts after Terror also discusses a wide range of biblical rape stories, including Dinah (Gen. 43), Tamar (2 Sam. 13), Lot's daughters (Gen. 19), Bathsheba (2 Sam. 11), Hagar (Gen. 16 and 21), Daughter Zion (Lam. 1 and 2), and the Levite's concubine (Judg. 19)"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 21, 2021)
SUBJECT Bible. Old Testament -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85013769
Bible -- Feminist criticism. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh93004310
Bible fast
Bible. Old Testament fast
Subject Rape in the Bible.
Sex crimes.
Sex Offenses
Feminist criticism
Rape in the Bible
Sex crimes
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2020052465
ISBN 9780190082321
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