Sexual Violence in History: A Bibliography

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Start: Topical Index: Representations: Religious Texts: Biblical Texts:

Representations: Religious Texts:
BOOK OF JUDGES

G e n e r a l   I n f o r m a t i o n

»The Book of Judges (Sefer Shoftim) 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. The stories follow a consistent pattern: the people are unfaithful to Yahweh; he therefore delivers them into the hands of their enemies; the people repent and entreat Yahweh for mercy, which he sends in the form of a leader or champion (a "judge"; see shophet); the judge delivers the Israelites from oppression and they prosper, but soon they fall again into unfaithfulness and the cycle is repeated. Scholars consider many of the stories in Judges to be the oldest in the Deuteronomistic history, with their major redaction dated to the 8th century BCE and with materials such as the Song of Deborah dating from much earlier.« -- More information: Wikipedia



Judges 5

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[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

K e y w o r d s

Chronological Index: Ancient History: Israelite History | Topical Index: Cases: Biblical Offenders: Delilah; Biblical Victims: Samson


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[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

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Chronological Index: Ancient History: Israelite History | Topical Index: Cases: Biblical Victims: Concubine of a Levite, Levite | Types: General: Rape; Rape: Anal Rape, Gang Rape, Same-Sex Rape, Rape Threat


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

[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] 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. »???, ??? ???? ??? ????? ??? '?? ???-??'? ??? ?? ??.« ???? 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.« 45th 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.« 45th 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.



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[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.