SEXUAL VIOLATION IN THE HEBREW BIBLE: A MULTI-METHODOLOGICAL STUDY OF GENESIS 34 AND 2 SAMUEL 13 by Mary Anna Bader

2007 ◽  
Vol 88 (1013) ◽  
pp. 117-120
Author(s):  
CATHERINE BROWN TKACZ
Keyword(s):  
Hebrew Bible ◽  
Methodological Study ◽  
Sexual Violation ◽  
2 Samuel

Heroic Bodies in Ancient Israel

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian R. Doak
Keyword(s):  
Hebrew Bible ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Left Handed ◽  
National Body ◽  
Ancient Israel ◽  
The Family ◽  
2 Samuel

The bodies of a people encode and continually retell the story of their families, cities, and nations. In the Hebrew Bible, the bodies of notable heroic figures—warriors, kings, and cultural founders—not only communicate values on an individual level but they also bear meaning for the fate of the nation. The patriarch Jacob, who takes on the name of the nation, “Israel,” engages in an intense bodily drama by way of securing the family blessing and passing on his identity to the Tribes of Israel. Judges is a deeply bodily book: left-handed, mutilating and mutilated, long haired, and fractured like the nation itself, its warriors revel in bodies and violence. The David and Saul drama, throughout 1–2 Samuel, repeatedly juxtaposes the bodies of the two kings and sets them on a collision course. Saul’s body continues to act in strange and powerful ways beyond his death, and in the final episodes of Saul’s bone movement and reburial, the last heroic body goes underground. Thus, Israel’s heroic national body rises and falls on the bodies of its heroes, and the Hebrew Bible takes up a profound place in the ancient literary landscape in its treatment of heroic and body themes.

scholarly journals The Fate and Power of Heroic Bones and the Politics of Bone Transfer in Ancient Israel and Greece

2013 ◽  
Vol 106 (2) ◽  
pp. 201-216
Author(s):  
Brian R. Doak
Keyword(s):  
Hebrew Bible ◽  
Ancient Israel ◽  
1 Samuel ◽  
2 Samuel

Tucked away in the Hebrew Bible at the end of 1 Samuel and then resumed near the end of 2 Samuel is a provocative tale recounting the final fate of Saul, Israel's first king. At the beginning of this two-part narrative (1 Sam 31:1), we find Saul atop Mount Gilboa, badly wounded by Philistine archers and nearly dead. Fearing the Philistine armies will rush upon him and continue the humiliation—perhaps by stabbing him repeatedly while still alive, as Saul suggests in 31:4, or something worse—Saul commits suicide. As the rest of the chapter recounts, upon finding his corpse, the enemy army abuses him in a different but perhaps not less dreadful manner, i.e., by beheading the king and hanging the remainder of his body on the wall of Beth Shan (along with the bodies of his sons, who died with their father in the battle). The residents of Jabesh Gilead, however, hear of these events and abscond with the bodies, burying the bones in their own territory and thus ending this particular episode of conflict between Israel and Philistia.

»Rape« in the Syntax of 2 Samuel 11:4

2017 ◽  
Vol 129 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Andruska
Keyword(s):  
Unique Contribution ◽  
Innocent Victim ◽  
Sexual Violation ◽  
2 Samuel

AbstractScholars continue to debate whether Bathsheba was an innocent victim of David’s lust, a willing participant in an affair or a calculating seductress manipulating him into it. Many arguments have been put forward in support of her innocence, yet the meaning of various events surrounding her story continues to be debated. This article makes a unique contribution to the discussion by arguing that the syntax of 2 Sam 11,4 actually signals that this was a non-consensual sexual violation, what we call »Rape«.

The Oxford Handbook of the Historical Books of the Hebrew Bible

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Political Theory ◽  
State Formation ◽  
Hebrew Bible ◽  
Trauma Theory ◽  
Topic Area ◽  
Samuel 1 ◽  
Near Eastern ◽  
Critical Issues ◽  
Textual Traditions ◽  
2 Samuel

The Oxford Handbook of the Historical Books of the Hebrew Bible offers thirty-six essays on the so-called “Historical Books”: Joshua, Judges, 1–2 Samuel, 1–2 Kings, Ezra-Nehemiah, and 1–2 Chronicles. The essays are organized around four nodes: contexts, content, approaches, and reception. Each essay takes up two questions: (1) what does the topic/area/issue have to do with the Historical Books? and (2) how does this topic/area/issue help readers better interpret the Historical Books? The essays engage traditional theories and newer updates to the same, and also engage the textual traditions themselves which are what give rise to compositional analyses. Many essays model approaches that move in entirely different ways altogether, however, whether those are by attending to synchronic, literary, theoretical, or reception aspects of the texts at hand. The contributions range from text-critical issues to ancient historiography, state formation and development, ancient Near Eastern contexts, society and economy, political theory, violence studies, orality, feminism, postcolonialism, and trauma theory—among others. Taken together, these essays well represent the variety of options available when it comes to gathering, assessing, and interpreting these particular biblical books.

When Children Die

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shawn W. Flynn
Keyword(s):  
Hebrew Bible ◽  
Kings 2 ◽  
Violence Against Children ◽  
Societal Response ◽  
Genesis 22 ◽  
High Regard ◽  
Childhood Violence ◽  
Domestic Cult ◽  
2 Samuel

This chapter examines texts in which children experience violence. By examining childhood violence in war contexts, we see how brutal treatment is used in promotional texts for its rhetorical effect. Likewise, violence against children through curses is met with an equally robust societal response. Further, child sacrifice is rarely practiced but had broad narrative impact. In childhood burials, we see a high regard for children reflecting the child’s value in the domestic cult. These contexts frame how we read childhood violence in the Hebrew Bible. Psalm 137 and 2 Kings 8:11–12 offer a poetic and narrative example of how violence against children assumes a child’s value in order to be effective texts. This is demonstrated through 2 Samuel 12 and the boys and the bears in 2 Kings 2 as well as in Genesis 22. To be rhetorically effective, violence used against children assumes their broadly held value.

Women's Reactions to Partner Abuse Research: A Mixed Methodological Study

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katie M. Edwards ◽  
Kateryna M. Sylaska ◽  
Arianna K. Schaaff ◽  
Megan J. Murphy ◽  
Christine A. Gidycz
Keyword(s):  
Partner Abuse ◽  
Methodological Study
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