Narrating Rape: Shifting Perspectives in Biblical Literature and Popular Culture

- Includes editors and contributors are well-recognised in the field.- Highlights global perspectives on sexual violence. - Well-suited for use in universities, seminaries, and undergraduate classrooms.

Narrating Rape presents exciting new scholarship on how to read, wrestle with, and respond to sexual violence and rape in and around biblical texts. The fourteen essays represent global contributors and bring together respected senior scholars along with fresh emerging voices. Contributors take on sexual violence in the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament, as well as the ancient Near Eastern and Roman contexts that informed the production of these texts. There is also a significant focus on using contemporary literature, film, and popular culture (including reality television and music) to read and interpret biblical rape stories.

Contributors include: Alexiana Fry, Meredith Warren, Kirsi Cobb, David Tombs, Jeremy Punt, and Gerald West

L. Juliana M. Claassens is Associate Professor of Old Testament at Stellenbosch University in South Africa.

Rhiannon Graybill is the Marcus and Carole Weinstein and Gilbert and Fannie S. Rosenthal Chair of Jewish Studies and Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Richmond in Richmond, VA.

Christl M. Maier has been Professor of Old Testament at Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany, since 2007.