Battered Love: Marriage, Sex, and Violence in the Hebrew Prophets
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.
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