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Marriage, Bible, Violence: Intersections and Impacts book cover

1st Edition

Marriage, Bible, Violence Intersections and Impacts

By Saima Afzal, Johanna Stiebert Copyright 2024
98 Pages
by Routledge

98 Pages
by Routledge

98 Pages
by Routledge
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Drawing on both biblical studies scholarship and practitioner experience, this book explores the disjuncture between complementarian accounts of biblical marriage and intersections of marriage and violence in texts from Jewish and Christian Scriptures. This volume challenges authoritative complementarian claims to the Bible’s allegedly clear and unequivocal directions on marriage. It refutes... Read more

Introduction

1. Biblical Marriage

2. Marriage in the Bible

3. Marriage, Bible, and Violence: Concluding Comments

Works Cited

Index of Biblical References

Index of Authors and Subjects

Biography

Saima Afzal worked in local government, child protection, and as National Crime Agency-registered expert witness, Independent Member of the Lancashire (UK) Police Authority, with a national Equality, Diversity, and Human Rights portfolio. She has served as Assistant Police and Crime Commissioner and founded S.A.S. RIGHTS.

Johanna Stiebert is Professor of Hebrew Bible at the University of Leeds (UK). She is author of Rape Myths, the Bible and #MeToo (Routledge, 2020) and has research interests in topics of gender, sexuality, and activism. She co-founded and co-directs The Shiloh Project (https://www.shilohproject.blog/).

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