SexViolHist Bib: Representations: Religious Texts: Book of Judges

»The Book of Judges (Hebrew: ספר שופטים, romanized: Sefer Shoftim; Greek: Κριτές; Latin: Liber Iudicum) is the seventh book of the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Old Testament. In the narrative of the Hebrew Bible, it covers the time between the conquest described in the Book of Joshua and the establishment of a kingdom in the Books of Samuel, during which Biblical judges served as temporary leaders.« -- More information: Wikipedia

Judges 5

I n f o r m a t i o n

»Judges 5 is the fifth chapter of the Book of Judges in the Old Testament or the Hebrew Bible. According to Jewish tradition the book was attributed to the prophet Samuel, but modern scholars view it as part of the Deuteronomistic History, which spans the books of Deuteronomy through Kings, attributed to nationalistic and devotedly Yahwistic writers during the time of the reformer Judean king Josiah in the 7th century BCE. This chapter records the activities of judge Deborah, belonging to a section comprising Judges 3:1 to 5:31.« -- More information: Wikipedia

K e y w o r d s

I. Chronological Index: Ancient History: Israelite History | II. Geograpical Index: Asian History: Israeli History | III. Topical Index: -

B i b l i o g r a p h y

I. Author Index

II. Speaker Index

[Info] Appler, Deborah A. »"May Your Allies Be Like the Sun, Rising in Its Strength": Female Collusion in the Context of the Song of Deborah, Slavery, and the #metoo Movement.« Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature. Denver 2018.

Judges 16

I n f o r m a t i o n

»Judges 16 is the sixteenth chapter of the Book of Judges in the Old Testament or the Hebrew Bible. According to Jewish tradition the book was attributed to the prophet Samuel,] but modern scholars view it as part of the Deuteronomistic History, which spans in the books of Deuteronomy to 2 Kings, attributed to nationalistic and devotedly Yahwistic writers during the time of the reformer Judean king Josiah in 7th century BCE. This chapter records the activities of judges Samson. belonging to a section comprising Judges 13 to 16 and Judges 6:1 to 16:31.« -- More information: Wikipedia

K e y w o r d s

I. Chronological Index: Ancient History: Israelite History | II. Geograpical Index: Asian History: Israeli History | III. Topical Index: Cases: Biblical Offenders: Delilah; Biblical Victims: Samson

B i b l i o g r a p h y

I. Author Index

II. Speaker Index

[Info] Nissly, Audrey M. »"I Would Become Weak Like Anyone Else": Reading Judges 16 as Sexual Violence.« Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature. Denver 2018.

Judges 19

I n f o r m a t i o n

»Judges 19 is the nineteenth chapter of the Book of Judges in the Old Testament or the Hebrew Bible. According to Jewish tradition, the book was attributed to the prophet Samuel; modern scholars view it as part of the Deuteronomistic History, which spans in the books of Deuteronomy to 2 Kings, attributed to nationalistic and devotedly Yahwistic writers during the time of the reformer Judean king Josiah in 7th century BCE. This chapter records the activities of a Levite from Ephraim and his concubine, belonging to a section comprising Judges 17 to 21.« -- More information: Wikipedia

Rape of a Concubine

K e y w o r d s

I. Chronological Index: Ancient History: Israelite History | II. Geograpical Index: Asian History: Israeli History | III. Topical Index: Cases: Biblical Victims: Concubine of a Levite; Types: Rape / Gang Rape, Rape Threat

B i b l i o g r a p h y

I. Author Index

[Info] Brouer, Deirdre. »Voices of Outrage against Rape: Textual Evidence in Judges 19.« Priscilla Papers 28 (2014): 24-28.

[Info] Paik, Seunghoon. »폭력의 연쇄반응: 구약의 성폭력 내러티브 연구.« 구약논단 30 (2024): 111-140.

II. Speaker Index

Rape of a Levite

K e y w o r d s

I. Chronological Index: Ancient History: Israelite History | II. Geograpical Index: Asian History: Israeli History | III. Topical Index: Cases: Biblical Victims: Levite; Types: Rape / Anal Rape, Same-Sex Rape

B i b l i o g r a p h y

I. Author Index

[Info] Carden, Michael. »Compulsory heterosexuality in biblical narratives and their interpretations. Reading homophobia and rape in Sodom and Gibeah.« Australian religion studies review 12 (1999).

[Info] Carden, Michael. »Homophobia and rape in Sodom and Gibeah. A response to Ken Stone.« Journal for the study of the Old Testament No. 82 (1999): 83-96.

[Info] Cheng, Patrick S. »Multiplicity and Judges 19. Constructing a queer Asian Pacific American biblical hermeneutic.« Semeia Nos. 90-91 (2002): 119-133.

[Info] Downey, H.R. Removing Homosexuality from Sodom: Contextualizing Genesis 19 with Other Biblical Rape Narratives. Master Thesis, Wright State University, 2017.

[Info] Frolov, Serge. »Sleeping with the Enemy: Recent Scholarship on Sexuality in the Book of Judges.« Currents in Biblical Research 11 (2013): 308-327.

[Info] Harding, James. »Homophobia and Masculine Domination in Judges 19-21.« The Bible & Critical Theory 12 (2016): 41-74.

[Info] Harding, James E. »Homophobia and Rape Culture in the Narratives of Early Israel.« Rape Culture, Gender Violence, and Religion: Biblical Perspectives. Edited by Caroline Blyth et al. Cham 2018: 159-178.

[Info] Keefe, Alice A. »Rapes of women, wars of men.« Semeia 61 (1993): 79-97.

[Info] Korpman, Matthew J. »Can anything good come from Sodom? A feminist and narrative critique of Lot's daughters in Gen. 19.30-38.« Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 43 (2019): 334-342.

[Info] Kuja, Ryan. »Remembering the Body: Misogyny Through the Lens of Judges 19.« Feminist Theology 25 (2016): 89-95.

[Info] Kügler, Joachim. »Warum man einen Mann nicht ‚zur Frau machen‘ soll und warum es sich bisweilen trotzdem lohnt: Historische Schlaglichter zum Zusammenhang von Männlicher Herrschaft, Misogynie und der Bewertung mann-männlichen Geschlechtsverkehrs.« Sodomiter, Päderasten, Homosexuelle: Mann-männliches Begehren und homosexuelles Handeln von der Antike bis zur Ehe für alle. Edited by Klaus van Eickels et al. Bamberg 2024: 83-128.

[Info] Matheny, Jennifer M. »Mute and Mutilated: Understanding Judges 19-21 as a ??? of Dialogue.« Biblical Interpretation 25 (2017): 625-646.

[Info] Müllner, Ilse. »Tödliche Differenzen. Sexuelle Gewalt als Gewalt gegen Andere in Ri 19.« Von der Wurzel getragen. Christlich-feministische Exegese in Auseinandersetzung mit Antijudaismus. Edited by Luise Schottroff et al. Leiden 1996: 81-100.

[Info] Müllner, Ilse. »Lethal differences. Sexual violence as violence against Others in Judges 19.« Judges. A feminist companion to the Bible. Second series. Edited by Athalya Brenner. Sheffield 1999: 126-142.

[Info] Park, You-mee. »성폭력, 개인의 문제인가 사회적 문제인가? 구약의 ‘여성 성폭력-전쟁’의 패턴에 대한 연.« 구약논단 24 (2018): 125-155.

[Info] Schulte, Leah R. The Absence of God in Biblical Rape Narratives. Minneapolis 2017.

[Info] Smith, Amanda. A Thing Not Done in Israel. M.A. Thesis, University of Georgia at Athens, 2006.

[Info] Spronk, Klaas. »The Story of a Gang Rape as a Means of Liberation: A Contextual Reading of Judges 19.« Religious Stories We Live By: Narrative Approaches in Theology and Religious Studies. Edited by R. Ruard Ganzevoort et al. Leiden 2014: 109-116.

[Info] van der Westhuizen, Renate. Rape as Torture: Re-reading the Rape of the Levite's Concubine in Judges 19. M.Th. Thesis, Stellenbosch University, 2016.

[Info] van der Westhuizen, Renate. »The Rape of the Levite's Concubine and Karoo Moose: Pedagogical Tools in Transforming a Rape Culture.« Teaching for Change: Essays on Pedagogy, Gender and Theology in Africa. Edited by L. Juliana Claassens et al. Stellenbosch 2019: 25-38.

[Info] White, Aaron. »Female Characterisations In The Book Of Judges.« Journal of Aggressive Christianity No. 98 (2015): 39-47.

[Info] Yamada, Frank M. Configurations of Rape in the Hebrew Bible: A Literary Analysis of Three Rape Narratives. Ph.D. Thesis, Princeton Theological Seminary, 2004.

[Info] Yamada, Frank M. Configurations of Rape in the Hebrew Bible: A Literary Analysis of Three Rape Narratives. New York 2008.

II. Speaker Index

[Info] Averny, Orit. »The Cry of the Concubine at Gibeah, the Whisper of Ruth on the Treshing Floor: An Intertextual Analysis of Two Biblical Stories.« 45^th Annual Conference of the Association for Jewish Studies. Boston 2012.

[Info] Bar-On, Shraga. »When the Tribes of Israel Were Allowed to Intermarry: Biblical Trauma and Midrashic Recovery.« 45^th Annual Conference of the Association for Jewish Studies. Boston 2013.

[Info] Embry, Brad. »The Rape and Dismemberment of the Levite's Concubine in Judges 19: A Case for Reassessing the (Important) Role of Women in the Biblical Narrative.« International Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature. London 2011.

[Info] Feinman, Peter. »Political Texts of Terror in the Book of Judges.« Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature. San Diego 2019.

[Info] Fox, Arminta. »Re-Membering Together: A Feminist Decolonizing Intertextual Reading of Judges 19.« Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature. Baltimore 2013.

[Info] Frolov, Serge. »Punished by Rape: Reading between Judges 19 and Ezekiel, via the Song of Songs.« Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature. Denver 2018.

[Info] Gaines, Jason M.H. »Consent, Rape, and Hierarchies of Power in the Hebrew Bible.« Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature. Boston 2017.

[Info] Graetz, Naomi. »The Concubine of Gibeah: The Case for Reading Inter-textually.« International Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature. Amsterdam 2012.

[Info] Harding, James E. »The Threat of Male Rape in the Hebrew Bible.« Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature. Virtual 2020.

[Info] Huffmon, Herbert B. »Sexual Violence Against Men: Israel and Its Neighbors.« Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature. Philadelphia 2005.

[Info] Lee, Bernon. »"Upon the Threshold": Perceptions of (Asian-American) Identity between Judges 19 and Exodus 11-12.« Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature. Baltimore 2013.

[Info] Peek, Stephanie. »Addressing Sexual Assault through a Neglected Biblical Text.« Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature. San Diego 2019.

[Info] Riley, Jonathon. »Deafening Silence: Sexual Violence in the Ammonihah Narrative When Read in Light of the Lot Narrative and the Levite's Concubine Narrative.« Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature. Denver 2018.

[Info] Stavrakopoulou, Francesca. »Displaying Dismemberment: Reading the Levite and His Lover.« Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature. Atlanta 2010.

[Info] Thiede, Barbara. »Bromance in Bible: How Male-Male Friendships in Biblical Literature Can Teach Students about the Use and Misuse of Women and Women's Bodies.« Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature. Denver 2018.

[Info] Thiede, Barbara. »Gang Rape, Murder, and Dismemberment in Judges 19-21 and Little Bee: How Biblical and Modern Authors Inflict Moral Injury.« Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature. Virtual 2020.

[Info] Viau, Jeanine. »"With Her Hands on the Threshold": Examining Judges 19-21, Sexual Violence, and Magisterial Culpability.« Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion. San Francisco 2011.

Judges 21

I n f o r m a t i o n

»Judges 21 is the twenty-first (and final) chapter of the Book of Judges in the Old Testament or the Hebrew Bible. According to Jewish tradition the book was attributed to the prophet Samuel, but modern scholars view it as part of the Deuteronomistic History, which spans in the books of Deuteronomy to 2 Kings, attributed to nationalistic and devotedly Yahwistic writers during the time of the reformer Judean king Josiah in the 7th century BCE. This chapter records the war between the tribe of Benjamin and the other eleven tribes of Israel, belonging to a section comprising Judges 17 to 21.« -- More information: Wikipedia

K e y w o r d s

I. Chronological Index: Ancient History: Israelite History | II. Geograpical Index: Asian History: Israeli History | III. Topical Index: -

B i b l i o g r a p h y

I. Author Index

II. Speaker Index

[Info] Smith, Grace. »Violence against women used violently against men: a case of women at Shiloh and the men Benjamin and Israel.« Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature. San Antonio 2023.