1st Edition
The Bible and Gender-based Violence in Botswana
By Mmapula Diana Kebaneilwe
Copyright 2024
100 Pages
by
Routledge
100 Pages
by
Routledge
100 Pages
by
Routledge
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The Bible and Gender-based Violence in Botswana foregrounds the rampancy of gender-based violence against women and girls in biblical texts and how it resonates with gender-based violence (GBV) in the author’s contemporary context of Botswana.
The volume reads selected texts from the Bible alongside newspaper reports of GBV against women and girls in Botswana to show that while the Bible is... Read more
Acknowledgments
1. A Contextual Background
2. Establishing the Gaps: The Bible and GBV in Context
3. Gender-based Violence: Endemic in Biblical Texts and Botswana Context
4. A Way Forward
Index
Biography
Mmapula Diana Kebaneilwe is a Senior Lecturer of the Hebrew Bible at the University of Botswana. She is a Humboldtian Research Fellow in Germany, and the author of "Jesus as a Victim of Sexual Abuse" in Reaves, J., Tombs, D. and Figueroa, R. (Eds.), When Did We See You Naked (2021).
