Sexual Violence in History: A Bibliography

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First published: December 20, 2014 - Last updated: November 1, 2025

TITLE INFORMATION

Author: Elna K. Solvang

Title: Guarding the house

Subtitle: Conflict, rape, and David’s concubines

In: Sex in Antiquity: Exploring Gender and Sexuality in the Ancient World

Edited by: Mark Masterson, Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz and James Robson

Place: London and New York, NY

Publisher: Routledge

Year: 2014 (hbk, ebk.), 2018 (pbk.)

Pages: 50-66

Series: Rewriting Antiquity

ISBN-13: 9780415519410 (hbk.) - Find a Library: Wikipedia, WorldCat | ISBN-13: 9781138480414 (pbk.) - Find a Library: Wikipedia, WorldCat | ISBN-13: 9781315747910 (ebk.) - Find a Library: Wikipedia, WorldCat

Language: English

Keywords: Ancient History: Israelite History | Cases: Biblical Offenders / Absalom; Types: Rape; Representations: Religious Texts / Books of Samuel



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Author: Elna K. Solvang, Department of Religion, Concordia College

Abstract: »In Chapter 3, Solvang examines the use of rape as a strategy in ancient and modern conflicts, drawing out instructive parallels between the role played by rape in the 1994 Rwandan genocide and Absalom’s decision to sexually violate the concubines of his father, King David, in 2 Sam. 16.« (Source: Mark Masterson, Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz, and James Robson, with assistance from Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones. »Introduction.« Sex in Antiquity: Exploring Gender and Sexuality in the Ancient World. Edited by Mark Masterson et. al. London 2014: 7)

Contents:
  Uses of sexual violence in civil conflicts (p. 51)
  Absalom and David’s ten concubines (p. 55)
  David’s concubines and the survivors of rape (p. 62)
  In closing (p. 64)
  Notes (p. 64)
  Bibliography (p. 65)

Wikipedia: Ancient history: Ancient Near East / History of ancient Israel and Judah | Bible: Hebrew Bible / Books of Samuel, 2 Samuel 16 | Bible: Rape in the Hebrew Bible / Absalom | Sex and the law: Rape / History of rape