Terror in the Bible : rhetoric, gender, and violence / Monica Jyotsna Melanchthon, Robyn J. Whitaker.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Melanchthon, Monica J., 1962- editor.

Whitaker, Robyn J., 1974- editor.

Series:

International voices in biblical studies; 14

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gender identity in the Bible.

Violence in the Bible.

Rhetoric in the Bible.

Bible--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bible.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 246 pages)

Place of Publication:

Atlanta : SBL Press, 2021.

Contents:

Foreword: Biblical terrors then and now / Phyllis Trible

Introduction: terrorizing and traumatizing texts in context / Monica Jyotsna Melanchthon and Robyn J. Whitaker

Terrorizing indigenous women in the contact zone : placing Cozbi and the Midianites in colonial Australia / Laura Griffin

Numbers 25 : a reading by a queer Australian / Karen Eller

But he would not listen to her : revisiting the story of Tamar in 2 Samuel 13 / Rachelle Gilmour

Clean and unclean : multiple readings of Mark 7:24-30/31 / Dorothy A. Lee

Desolate, devastated, redeemed, restored : feminist visions of daughter Zion in the Australian context / Angela Sawyer

Invoking Jezebel, invoking terror : the threat of sexual violence in the Apocalypse to John / Robyn J. Whitaker

The leadership of women in early Christianity / Adela Yarbro Collins

Reading crucifixion narratives as texts of terror / David Tombs

The fruit of others' labor : how Judges 19 stands with dehumanized migrant workers / Brent Pelton

Interrogating Ahithophel : intersecting gender and class in biblical text and South African context / Gerald O. West

Terror of texts : orality and the reclaiming of daughters' land rights (Numbers 27:1-11 and 36:1-12) / Jione Havea

Gender, violence, and the Dalit psyche : the Jephthah story (Judges 11-12) reconsidered / Monica Jyotsna Melanchthon

Afterword: Scriptures of terror / Jione Havea.

ISBN:

9781628375008