Sexual Violence in History: A Bibliography

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BIBLICAL TEXTS

Hebrew Bible / Old Testament: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Judges, Samuel, Esther, Psalms, Song of Songs, Ruth, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Lamentations, Ezekiel, Daniel, Chronicles, Hosea, Zechariah; New Testament: Gospel of Matthew, Gospel of Mark, Gospel of John; Gospel of Luke; Pauline Epistles, Book of Revelation; Apocrypha: Acts of John, Book of Judith


General

I. Author Index

[Info] Aggrawal Anil. »References to the paraphilias and sexual crimes in the Bible.« Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine 16 (2009): 109-114.

[Info] Babb, Jeannie. Making Meaning of Sexual Violence against Women in Ancient Sacred Christian Literature. Master Thesis, University of the South, 2013.

[Info] Blyth, Caroline, et al. »Introduction.« Rape Culture, Gender Violence, and Religion: Biblical Perspectives. Cham 2018: 1-11.

[Info] Blyth, Caroline, et al., eds. Rape Culture, Gender Violence, and Religion: Biblical Perspectives. Cham 2018.

[Info] Brooks Thistlethwaite, Susan. »"You may enjoy the spoil of your enemies". Rape as a biblical metaphor for war.« Semeia 61 (1993): 59-75.

[Info] Brouer, Deirdre. Voices of 'Outrage' against Rape: Textual Evidence and Case Studies in the Hebrew Bible. M.A. Thesis, Denver Seminary, 2012.

[Info] Charam, Isaac. »Rape in psychopathology and the Bible.« Youth, love and ecology. Proceedings of the XI World Congress of Sexology, Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), June 1-5, 1993. Edited by Isaac Charam et al. Bologna 1994: 69-76.

[Info] Colgan, Emily, et al. »Tough Conversations: Teaching Biblical Gender Violence in Aotearoa New Zealand.« Rape Culture, Gender Violence, and Religion: Biblical Perspectives. Edited by Caroline Blyth et al. Cham 2018: 201-207.

[Info] Cooper-White, Pamela. The cry of Tamar. Violence against women and the church’s response. Minneapolis 1995.

[Info] Crisp, Beth R. »Reading scripture from a hermeneutic of rape.« Theology and sexuality No. 14 (2001): 23-42.

[Info] Eichler, Ulrike. »Weil der geopferte Mensch nichts ergibt. Zur christlichen Idealisierung weiblicher Opferexistenz.« Sexuelle Gewalt gegen Mädchen und Frauen als Thema der feministischen Theologie. Edited by Ulrike Eichler. Gütersloh 1999: 124-141.

[Info] Eylon, Dina R. »Bible, Old Testament.« Encyclopedia of rape. Edited by Merril D. Smith. Westport 2004: 23-24.

[Info] Fischer, Irmtraud. »Harcèlement sexuel dans la Bible: #ThemToo.« Études No. 4250 (2018): 77-88.

[Info] Frymer-Kensky, Tikva. »Law and Philosophy: The Case of Sex in the Bible.« Jewish Explorations of Sexuality. Edited by Jonathan Magonet. Providence 1995: 3-16.

[Info] Frymer-Kensky, Tikva. »Law and Philosophy: The Case of Sex in the Bible.« Women in the Hebrew Bible: A Reader. Edited by Alice Bach. New York 1999: 293-304.

[Info] Frymer-Kensky, Tikva. Reading the women of the Bible. A new interpretation of their stories. New York 2004.

[Info] Gordon, Pamela. »Rape as a Military Metaphor in the Hebrew Bible.« A Feminist Companion to Exodus to Deuteronomy. Edited by Athalya Brenner. Sheffield 1995: 308-325.

[Info] Gravett, Sandie. »Reading ‘rape’ in the Hebrew Bible. A consideration of language.« Journal for the study of the Old Testament 28 (2004): 279-299.

[Info] Graybill, Rhiannon, et al., eds. Rape Culture and Religious Studies: Critical and Pedagogical Engagements. Lanham 2019.

[Info] Graybill, Rhiannon. Texts After Terror: Rape, Sexual Violence, & the Hebrew Bible. Oxford 2021.

[Info] Grohmann, Marianne, et al. »Literarische Transformationen sexueller Gewalt in der Hebräischen Bibel.« Interdisciplinary Journal for Religion and Transformation in Contemporary Society 3 (2017): 157-184.

[Info] Hardmeier, Ursula. »Gewalt gegen Frauen – ein Thema in Theologie und Kirche.« Frauen und Gewalt: Interdisziplinäre Untersuchungen zu geschlechtsgebundener Gewalt in Theorie und Praxis. Edited by Antje Hilbig et al. Würzburg 2003: 47-60.

[Info] Jones, Jake J. Pre-Biblical and Old Testament Rape Law Parallels: Recurring Androcentric Themes in Historic Biblical Text. M.A. Thesis, Rutgers-The States University of New Jersey, 2013.

[Info] Kelso, Julie. »Andrea Dworkin on the Biblical Foundations of Violence Against Women.« Rape Culture, Gender Violence, and Religion: Biblical Perspectives. Edited by Caroline Blyth et al. Cham 2018: 83-101.

[Info] Kruger, Paul A. »Women and War Brutalities in the Minor Prophets: The Case of Rape.« Old Testament Essays 27 (2014): 147-176.

[Info] Loader, William. The Pseudepigrapha on Sexuality: Attitudes towards Sexuality in Apocalypses, Testaments, Legends, Wisdom, and Related Literature. Grand Rapids 2011.

[Info] Mena Lopez, Maricel. »Crimen de honor, guerra y religión. Memoria de mujeres violadas en la Biblia Hebraica y en la actualidad.« Colección Teología y Sociedad No. 10 (2012): 47-69.

[Info] Meyers, Carol. »Rape or remedy? Sex and violence in prophetic marriage metaphors.« Prophetie in Israel. Beiträge des Symposiums "Das Alte Testament und die Kultur der Moderne" anlässlich des 100. Geburtstags Gerhard von Rads (1901-1971), Heidelberg, 18.-21. Oktober 2001. Edited by Irmtraud Fischer et al. Münster 2003: 185-198.

[Info] Miles, Johnny. »Re-reading the Power of Satire: Isaiah's 'Daughters of Zion', Pope's 'Belinda', and the Rhetoric of Rape.« Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 31 (2006): 193-219.

[Info] Müllner, Ilse. »Sexuelle Gewalt im Alten Testament.« Sexuelle Gewalt gegen Mädchen und Frauen als Thema der feministischen Theologie. Edited by Ulrike Eichler et al. Gütersloh 1999: 40-75.

[Info] Müllner, Ilse. »Die Gewalt benennen. Sexuelle Gewalt in biblischen Texten.« Welt und Umwelt der Bibel No. 21 (2001): 59-64.

[Info] Müllner, Ilse. »Gegen den Willen. Sexuelle Gewalt im Alten Testament.« Essener Unikate No. 21 (2003): 8-21.

[Info] Reisenberger, Aliza T. »Biblical women – the non-existent entity. A study in rape cases.« Journal of constructive theology 6 (2000): 55-66.

[Info] Sauer, Gert. »Über Gewalt und Vergewaltigung in biblischen Texten.« Vergewaltigung: Militär und sexuelle Gewalt. Ursachen und Folgen in Kriegs- und Friedenszeiten. Beiträge einer Tagung der Evangelischen Akademie Baden, 10.-12. September 1993, Bad Herrenalb. Edited by Ulrich Lochmann. Karlsruhe 1994: 59-65.

[Info] Scholz, Susanne. »Gender, class, and androcentric compliance in the rapes of enslaved women in the Hebrew Bible.« Lectio difficilior 1/2004.

[Info] Scholz, Susanne. Introducing the women’s Hebrew Bible. London 2007.

[Info] Scholz, Susanne. »On the “Ordinary” Inclusion of Rape in the Teaching of the Hebrew Bible.« Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion 33 (2017): 164-166.

[Info] Scholz, Susanne. »Marriage, Love, or Consensual Sex? Feminist Engagements with Biblical Rape Texts in Light of Title IX.« Rape Culture, Gender Violence, and Religion: Biblical Perspectives. Edited by Caroline Blyth et al. Cham 2018: 179-199.

[Info] Southard, Susanna W. »Rape.« The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Love, Courtship, and Sexuality Through History. Vol. 1. Edited by James W. Howell. Westport 2008: 131-133.

[Info] Southwood, Katherine E. Marriage by Capture in the Book of Judges: An Anthropological Approach. Cambridge 2017.

[Info] Stiebert, Johanna. Fathers & Daughters in the Hebrew Bible. Oxford 2013.

[Info] Stiebert, Johanna. »Brother, Sister, Rape: The Hebrew Bible and Popular Culture.« Rape Culture, Gender Violence, and Religion: Biblical Perspectives. Edited by Caroline Blyth et al. Cham 2018: 31-50.

[Info] Teguh Wijaya Mulya. »Queering the Virgin/Whore Binary: The Virgin Mary, the Whore of Babylon, and Sexual Violence.« Rape Culture, Gender Violence, and Religion: Biblical Perspectives. Edited by Caroline Blyth et al. Cham 2018: 51-65.

[Info] Vikman, Elisabeth. »Ancient Origins: Sexual Violence in Warfare, Part I.« Anthropology & Medicine 12 (2005): 21-31.

[Info] Washington, Harold C. »Violence and the construction of gender in the Hebrew Bible. A new historicist approach.« Biblical interpretation 5 (1997): 324-363.

[Info] Weems, Renita J. Sexual violence as an image for divine retribution in the prophetic writings. Dissertation, Princeton Theological Seminary, 1989.

[Info] Weems, Renita J. Battered love. Marriage, sex, and violence in the Hebrew Prophets. Minneapolis 1995.

[Info] Zlotnick, Helena. Dinah's Daughters: Gender and Judaism from the Hebrew Bible to Late Antiquity. Philadelphia 2002.

II. Speaker Index

[Info] Bader, Mary. »Teaching Biblical Narratives Involving Sexual Violation.« Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature. Washington, D.C. 2006.

[Info] Gaca, Kathy L. »Girls, Women, and the Sexual Laws of War in the Old Testament.« Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature. Philadelphia 2005.

[Info] Gaca, Kathy L. »The Old Testament Prophets on the Other Half of Ancient Warfare.« Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature. Washington, D.C. 2006.

[Info] Greenough, Christopher. »The Bible and Sexual Violence Against Men.« Ancient Rape Cultures: Greek, Roman, Jewish, Christian: International Conference Rome 2022.

[Info] Jones, Christopher, et al. »Texts of Terror? Exploring Religious Trauma(s) with Tools in the Classroom.« Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature. San Antonio 2023.

[Info] Kalmanofsky, Amy, et al. »Reviewing Rhiannon Graybill's 'Texts After Terror: Rape, Sexual Violence, and the Hebrew Bible'.« Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature. Denver 2022.

[Info] Morse, Holly. »Seeing Hidden Crimes: Visual Art as Witness to Violence against Biblical Women.« Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature. San Antonio 2023.

[Info] Olojede, Funlola. »Absence of Child Rape in Old Testament Narratives: A Contextual Hermeneutical Reflection.« Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature. San Antonio 2023.

[Info] Scholz, Susanne. »Exploring Interpretations of Biblical Rape Texts with the Inter(con)text of the Public Discourse on the Coronavirus Pandemic.« Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature. Virtual 2020.