Battered Love: Marriage, Sex, and Violence in the Hebrew Prophets (Overtures to Biblical Theology) - Softcover

Weems, Renita J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0800629485 ISBN 13: 9780800629489

Publisher: Fortress Press, 1995

Synopsis

Weems's pioneering study explores the puzzling ways in which the Hebrew prophets' portrayals of divine love, compassion, and conventional commitment often became associated with battery, infidelity, and the rape and mutilation of women. She wrestles with the prophets' rhetoric and sexual metaphors to uncover Israelite social structures, asking, "What is implied about women, men, and God by the language that the prophets use to describe the covenant between Yahweh and Israel?" This provocative work by a leading African American biblical scholar delves deeply into issues of intimacy and power, violence and control, seduction and betrayal, and is a searing indictment of the axial points of Israelite religion-its covenantal and prophetic traditions-and their authority today.

About this title

About the Author:

Renita J. Weems is a writer, Bible scholar, and minister, and the author of "Just a Sister Away" and "I Asked for Intimacy." She lives with her husband and their daughter in Nashville, Tennessee, where she also teaches Old Testament studies at Vanderbilt University Divinity School.

About this edition

• Publisher: Fortress Press
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0800629485
• ISBN 13: 9780800629489
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 168