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Informationen zum Autor Katherine E. Southwood is University Lecturer in Old Testament and Fellow and Tutor in Theology and Religion at St John's College, Oxford. Her research focuses on and promotes interdisciplinary approaches to the Hebrew Bible through engagement with social anthropology to understand Israelite marriage practices and the impact of forced and return migrations on Israelite identity. She is the author of Ethnicity and the Mixed Marriage Crisis in Ezra 9-10: An Anthropological Approach (2012). Klappentext This book explores the concepts of marriage, ethnicity, rape, and power in Judges 21 as means of ethnic preservation and exclusion. Zusammenfassung This book examines the assertion of ethnicity through forced marriage to resist compromise and preserve the character! culture! and values of an ethnic group. It is a key resource for academics! students! and anyone interested in biblical studies! theology! religious studies! and social anthropology. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Methods, considerations, and recent approaches to Judges 21; 2. Contextualised outline of the causes for and consequences of marriage by capture; 3. Virginity, marriage, and rape in the Hebrew bible; 4. Judges 21 as an example of marriage by capture in the Hebrew bible; 5. Marriage by capture within an ethnic narrative: Judges 21 as a social critique of superficial unity in the Persian period; 6. Conclusions.
