Sexual violence against men in the Hebrew Bible

Greenough, Christopher

doi:10.4324/9781003029601-3

The Bible and Sexual Violence Against Men 2020

DOI: 10.4324/9781003029601-3

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Sexual violence against men in the Hebrew Bible

Christopher Greenough¹

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“… 15. Chris Greenough (2021: 39) notes that Genesis 19.30-38 counteracts the myth that women cannot be perpetrators of sexual violence and that men cannot be victims. …”

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Did Lot Get His Just Desserts? Trauma, Revenge, and Re-enactment in Genesis 19.30-38

Cobb¹

2022

Journal for the Study of the Old Testament

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In Genesis 19.30-38, Lot’s daughters commit incest with their father to save his seed. Earlier in Genesis 19.6-8, Lot offered his daughters to be raped by the men of Sodom to save the honour of his male guests. Reading these stories together, in the latter, we observe an inverted world where victims become perpetrators and vice versa. If read through trauma theory, the inversion could imply that the daughters’ rape of Lot was motivated by revenge; however, traumatic re-enactment, where the daughters repeat their earlier trauma but also invert it, could also suit the textual evidence. Verses 30–38 could be read as an attempt to master previous trauma through repetition, where the recurring descriptions of design and act of rape are central to the interpretation of the narrative. This reading does not lessen the horror of the passage but rather adds to our understanding of trauma in Genesis 19.30–38.

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“… 15. Chris Greenough (2021: 39) notes that Genesis 19.30-38 counteracts the myth that women cannot be perpetrators of sexual violence and that men cannot be victims. …”

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Did Lot Get His Just Desserts? Trauma, Revenge, and Re-enactment in Genesis 19.30-38

Cobb¹

2022

Journal for the Study of the Old Testament

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Sexual violence against men in the Hebrew Bible

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Did Lot Get His Just Desserts? Trauma, Revenge, and Re-enactment in Genesis 19.30-38

Did Lot Get His Just Desserts? Trauma, Revenge, and Re-enactment in Genesis 19.30-38

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