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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910586700803321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Atlanta : , : SBL Press, , 2021
• ISBN: 9781628375008; 9781628374216; 9781628375015
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xiv, 246 pages)
• Collana: International voices in biblical studies; ; 14
• Soggetti: Gender identity in the Bible; Violence in the Bible; Rhetoric in the Bible
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: 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.