Year: 2017
Type: article
Abstract: This article examines texts of the Hebrew Bible about sexual violence as examples of literary transformation.It studies their potential for transformation regarding gender relations in its historical context as well as in contemporaryr eception.Prescriptive, narrative and poetic textsbring up the issue of sexual violence in different ways and offer starting points for their transformation.Thearticle demonstrates the tight bond between gender and violence in the texts,aswell as powerand language.Italso showsthe potential for approaching and interpreting the texts in alternative ways.
Authors: Marianne Grohmann, Agnethe Siquans
Language: English
Subfield: Religious studies
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W2758115111