Violence against Women and Children in the Hebrew Bible

Kristine Henriksen Garroway is Visiting Professor of Hebrew Bible at Hebrew Union College, Israel. Hyun Chul Paul Kim is Professor of Hebrew Bible at Methodist Theological School in Ohio, USA. John W. Martens is Professor of Theology at the University of St. Thomas, USA.

Introduction: The Place of Women, Children, and Violence in the Hebrew Bible
Kristine Henriksen Garroway (Hebrew Union College, Israel), Hyun Chul Paul Kim (Methodist Theological School in Ohio, USA), John W. Martens (University of St. Thomas, USA)
PART 1
Violence against (Resilient) Children
1. A Resilient Reading of the Young Miriam in Exodus 2
Paba Nidhani De Andrado
2. The Perils of Prophetic Proximity: Violence against Children in the Elisha Narratives
M. L. Case
PART 2
Women and Children in the Context of War
3. A Whole Burnt Offering to the LORD? Contextualizing Ritual Violence against Women and Children in the Deuteronomistic History and the Punishment of Achan
Anthony P. SooHoo
4. Scorched Birth Tactics: The Eighth-Century Prophets and Rhetoric of Violence against Children in War
Jason Anthony Riley
5. Sons (and a Daughter) as Scary Semantic Signs: Naming Children in Isaiah 7–8 and Hosea 1 as Acts of Violence
Julie Faith Parker
6.The Wife and Mother: Mercy for the Womb in the Divine Marriage Metaphor
Laurel Koepf
PART 3
Texts of Violence and Contemporary Readership
7. The Lost and Found Children of Daughter Zion in Deutero-Isaiah
Angela Sawyer
8. “Wife of Promiscuity and Children of Promiscuity”: The Legitimation of Sexual Violence and Illegitimacy Disability through Hosea’s Marriage Metaphor
Alice Yafeh-Deigh
9. Performing Grief for the “Ungrievable”: A Re-reading of Ezekiel 16 with The Statue of Peace
Jina Kang
Bibliography
Index