Battered Love - Marriage, Sex, and Violence in the Hebrew Prophets

Informationen zum Autor Renita J. Weems is Associate Professor of Hebrew Bible at Vanderbilt Divinity School. Klappentext Weems's pioneering study explores the puzzling ways in which the Hebrew prophets' portrayals of divine love, compassion, and conventional commitment often became associated with battery, infidelity, and the rape and mutilation of women. She wrestles with the prophets' rhetoric and sexual metaphors to uncover Israelite social structures, asking, "What is implied about women, men, and God by the language that the prophets use to describe the covenant between Yahweh and Israel?" This provocative work by a leading African American biblical scholar delves deeply into issues of intimacy and power, violence and control, seduction and betrayal, and is a searing indictment of the axial points of Israelite religionits covenantal and prophetic traditionsand their authority today. Zusammenfassung Weems' pioneering study explores the puzzling ways in which the Hebrew prophets' portrayals of divine love! compassion and covenantal commitment became associated with battery! infidelity! and the rape and mutilation of women.

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• Authors: Renita Weems, Renita J Weems, Renita J. Weems
• Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Pub
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.10.1995
• EAN: 9780800629489
• ISBN: 978-0-8006-2948-9
• No. of pages: 150
• Dimensions: 146 mm x 222 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Overtures to biblical theology; Overtures to biblical theology
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Religious writings, prayers, songbooks, religious meditations; Judentum, Kritik und Exegese heiliger Texte