Narrating Rape

L. Juliana M. Claassens is Professor of Old Testament at Stellenbosch University in South Africa. Rhiannon Graybill is the Marcus and Carole Weinstein and Gilbert and Fannie S. Rosenthal Chair of Jewish Studies and Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Richmond in Richmond, VA. Christl M. Maier has been Professor of Old Testament at Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany, since 2007.

Contributors

Introduction: On Narrating Rape
Rhiannon Graybill, L. Juliana Claassens, and Christl M. Maier

Part I: Stories of Rape in Bible and Popular Culture

1.Recovering from Rape? Lacuna (Fiona Snyckers) in Conversation with Daughter Zion in Isaiah 51.17—52.2
L. Juliana Claassens
2.‘Long Since Murdered’: Cozbi, The Kreutzer Sonata, and the Limits of Narrating Sexual Violence
Rhiannon Graybill
3.Consensual Sex or Rape? Bathsheba Encircled by Hegemonic Masculinity
Christl M. Maier
4.Women Talking and Women Not Talking: Speaking for(?) in Fiction and Judges 21
Alexiana Fry
5.Filling in the Gaps: Reading Hosea 1—3 with Francine Rivers’ Redeeming Love
Kirsi Cobb
6.Will You Accept This Rose? The Magic Circle in the Book of Esther
Steed V. Davidson
7.Rape Jokes, Sexual Violence, and Empire in Revelation and This Is The End
Meredith J. C. Warren

Part II: Rape and Sexual Violence in Ancient and Contemporary Contexts

8.Resistance, Rage, and Re-enactment: Trauma Responses in the Sumerian Rape Narratives
Renate Marian van Dijk-Coombes
9.Things Too Indecent to be Recorded: The Soldiers Mocking the Death of Herod Agrippa
David Tombs
10.‘Slaves of Christ’: Rape Culture in the New Testament
Jeremy Punt
11.‘Madoda Sabelani’ and Matthew 2.18: Lamenting Hegemonic Masculinity
Dewald Jacobs
12.The Poetics of Redacted Absence as Presence: Kin Eyes Hearing Tamar (2 Samuel 13) Gerald O. West
13.Under Rug Swept: Creating Space to Engage the Reality of Homophobic Hate Crimes in the South African Faith Landscape
Charlene van der Walt