Dr Claude Mariottini has pointed out a book by Susanne Scholz called
Sacred Witness: Rape in the Hebrew Bible (
Minneapolis:
Fortress Press, 2010) . I find that this subject is often brought up as an objection against
God and
Christianity as if the Bible condones and prescribes
rape as acceptable behavior. Scholz does a better job it seems in how she studies the object and has a very good goal.
Scholz’s goal “is to provide readings of biblical rape texts that endorse a hermeneutics of meanings and present the Hebrew Bible as a ‘sacred witness’ to rape in the lives of women, children, and men” (p. 23).
This sounds like a great
reference book for everyone!
Rape in the Hebrew Bible | Dr. Claude Mariottini – Professor of Old Testament
