1st Edition
Gendered Violence in Biblical Narrative The Devouring Metaphor
By Esther Brownsmith
Copyright 2024
202 Pages
5 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
202 Pages
5 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
This book uses three examples of violent biblical stories about women, explored through the lens of conceptual metaphor theory in relation to culinary language used within these texts, to examine wider issues of gender and sexual violence in the Hebrew Bible.
Utilising the tools of conceptual metaphor theory, feminist criticism, and classic textual analysis, Brownsmith interrogates some of the... Read more
1. Amuse-Bouche; 2. Stocking the Pantry; 3. The Woman in the Refrigerator: Consumption and Objectification in Judges 19; 4. Forbidden Fruit: Food and/as Consumption in 2 Samuel 13; 5. The Diner as Dinner: Jezebel and the Literalization of Metaphor; 6. Clearing the Table.
Biography
Esther Brownsmith is Assistant Professor of Hebrew Bible at the University of Dayton in Dayton, Ohio, USA. She is editor-in-chief of the forthcoming Unruly Books: Rethinking Ancient and Academic Imaginations of Religious Texts.
