Violence against Women and Children in the Hebrew Bible : Between Trauma and Resilience (Hardcover)

Introduction: The Place of Women, Children, and Violence in the Hebrew Bible Kristine Henriksen Garroway (Hebrew Union College, Israel), Hyun Chul Paul Kim (Methodist Theological School in Ohio, USA), John W. Martens (University of St. Thomas, USA) PART 1 Violence against (Resilient) Children 1. A Resilient Reading of the Young Miriam in Exodus 2 Paba Nidhani De Andrado 2. The Perils of Prophetic Proximity: Violence against Children in the Elisha Narratives M. L. Case PART 2 Women and Children in the Context of War 3. A Whole Burnt Offering to the LORD? Contextualizing Ritual Violence against Women and Children in the Deuteronomistic History and the Punishment of Achan Anthony P. SooHoo 4. Scorched Birth Tactics: The Eighth-Century Prophets and Rhetoric of Violence against Children in War Jason Anthony Riley 5. Sons (and a Daughter) as Scary Semantic Signs: Naming Children in Isaiah 7-8 and Hosea 1 as Acts of Violence Julie Faith Parker 6.The Wife and Mother: Mercy for the Womb in the Divine Marriage Metaphor Laurel Koepf PART 3 Texts of Violence and Contemporary Readership 7. The Lost and Found Children of Daughter Zion in Deutero-Isaiah Angela Sawyer 8. "Wife of Promiscuity and Children of Promiscuity": The Legitimation of Sexual Violence and Illegitimacy Disability through Hosea's Marriage Metaphor Alice Yafeh-Deigh 9. Performing Grief for the "Ungrievable": A Re-reading of Ezekiel 16 with The Statue of Peace Jina Kang Bibliography Index