This book explores the Bibles ongoing relevance in contemporary discussions around rape culture and gender violence. Each chapter considers the ways that biblical texts and themes engage with various forms of gender violence, including the subjective, physical violence of rape, the symbolic violence of misogynistic and heteronormative discourses, and the structural violence of patriarchal power systems. The authors within this volume attempt to name (and shame) the multiple forms of gender violence present within the biblical traditions, contesting the erasure of this violence within both the biblical texts themselves and their interpretive traditions. They also consider the complex connections between biblical gender violence and the perpetuation and validation of rape culture in contemporary popular culture. This volume invites new and ongoing conversations about the Bibles complicity in rape-supportive cultures and practices, challenging readers to read these texts in light of the global crisis of gender violence.
Chapter 1: Introduction Caroline Blyth, Emily Colgan, and Katie B. Edwards
Chapter 2: For Precious Girls Everywhere: Lamentations, HIV, and Precious Lucy Skerratt
Chapter 3: Brother, Sister, Rape: The Hebrew Bible and Popular Culture Johanna Stiebert
Chapter 4: Queering the Virgin/Whore Binary: The Virgin Mary, the Whore of Babylon, and Sexual Violence Teguh Wijaya Mulya
Chapter 5: Rape Culture Discourse and Female Impurity: Genesis 34 as a Case Study Jessica M. Keady
Chapter 6: Andrea Dworkin on the Biblical Foundations of Violence against Women Julie Kelso
Chapter 7: Twelve Steps to the Tent of Zimri: An Imaginarium Yael Klangwisan
Chapter 8: Abandonment, Rape, and Second Abandonment: Hannah Baker in 13 Reasons Why and the Royal Concubines in 2 Samuel 15-20 David Tombsl“8
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