The Bible and Sexual Violence Against Men

Greenough, Christopher

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“…The sexual connotations of the nakedness are amplified by the frequent allusions to whoring resp the designation of the character as a 'whore'. Regarding the stripping per se, there are several current studies on the crucifixion of Jesus as sexual abuse that thematize forcible nakedness (Trainor 2014;Greenough 2020;. For example, in their introductory chapter, Reaves and Tombs urge: "the forced stripping and naked exposure of Jesus on the cross should be acknowledged as sexual abuse" (Reaves and Tombs 2021, p. 1).…”

Section: Babylon As Non-survivor Of Sexual Abusementioning

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The ‘Great Whore’ of Babylon (Rev 17) as a Non-Survivor of Sexual Abuse

König

2022

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The article aims to re-read Rev 17:16 amid the catastrophic patterns of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church. Employing narratological methods as well as a close reading of the text, it is argued that Rev 17:16 can be coherently read as the violent sexual punishment of an anthropomorphic female character. Signals in the text point to God’s involvement in this punishment and to its overall positive evaluation. Considering reader’s realities in the context of sexual abuse and its cover-up, the article argues for the necessity of taking a positional stance while reading biblical ‘texts of sexual terror’. Such a positional stance must have visible effects on a responsible reading and interpretation of the ‘great whore’s’ story.

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Section: Babylon As Non-survivor Of Sexual Abusementioning

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The ‘Great Whore’ of Babylon (Rev 17) as a Non-Survivor of Sexual Abuse

König

2022

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“Look at What They’ve Turned Us Into”: Reading the Story of Lot’s Daughters with Trauma Theory and The Handmaid’s Tale

Cobb¹

2021

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The story of Lot’s daughters’ incest with their father in Genesis 19:30–38 has been variously understood as a myth, a trickster tale, and an androcentric phantasy. In this paper, I will use insights gained from trauma theory, as well as from the characters of Emily and Moira in the Hulu adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, to evaluate the daughters’ actions. Studying the characters in the final form of the text, the women undergo traumatic experiences as their father offers their bodies to be raped (Gen. 19:7–8) and they witness the destruction of their home (Gen. 19:24–25). Consequently, they engage in what could be described as a traumatic re-enactment with their father, where the roles of the perpetrator and the victim are reversed, and the continuation of the patriarchal line is simultaneously guaranteed. Read in conjunction with the fates of Emily and Moira, the daughters’ experience could be summarized in Emily’s observation, “Look at what they’ve turned us into.” In the lives of all the women, the experience of cumulative and direct trauma influenced their decision making as well as the choices they had available. This leaves the audience in a moment of uncertainty, where evaluating the women’s actions becomes a complex, even an impossible prospect.

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The Bible and Sexual Violence Against Men

Cited by 2 publications

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The ‘Great Whore’ of Babylon (Rev 17) as a Non-Survivor of Sexual Abuse

The ‘Great Whore’ of Babylon (Rev 17) as a Non-Survivor of Sexual Abuse

“Look at What They’ve Turned Us Into”: Reading the Story of Lot’s Daughters with Trauma Theory and The Handmaid’s Tale

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