Battered Love (Overtures to Biblical Theology): Marriage, Sex, and Violence in the Hebrew Prophets - Softcover

Weems, Renita

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0800629485 ISBN 13: 9780800629489

Verlag: FORTRESS PRESS, 1995

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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 religion-its covenantal and prophetic traditions-and their authority today.

Biografía del autor:

Renita J. Weems is a writer, Bible scholar, and minister, and the author of "Just a Sister Away" and "I Asked for Intimacy." She lives with her husband and their daughter in Nashville, Tennessee, where she also teaches Old Testament studies at Vanderbilt University Divinity School.

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• Verlag: FORTRESS PRESS
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0800629485
• ISBN 13: 9780800629489
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 168