Rape Culture and the Bible: Scholars Reflect

Rape Culture and the Bible: Scholars Reflect

Edited ByBarbara Thiede

 

Rape Culture and the Bible: Scholars Reflect offers readers the opportunity to hear from prominent and influential biblical scholars and scholar activists as they reflect on their work on sexual violence vis-a-vis the Bible. This book covers major points of inquiry in the field, focusing primarily on the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament. It explores debates on appropriate terminology; intersectionality of sexual violence, gender, and race; how survivor perspectives inform the reading of violent texts; male-on-male sexualized violence in biblical literature; and the connections of Judeophobia with sexual violence in early Christian literature. The introductory chapter establishes methodology, purpose, and aims of this volume. The final chapter reflects on the ethical concerns governing the field, challenges scholars have faced in their discipline, and the tasks ahead. Along the way, Rape Culture and the Bible demonstrates how rape and rape culture in the Bible impact real lives across time and the globe.

The Open Access version of this book, available at https://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Edition 1st Edition

First Published 2025

eBook Published 15 October 2025

Pub. Location London

Imprint Routledge

DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781032683713

Pages 140

eBook ISBN 9781032683713

OA Funder University of North Carolina

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter 1|14 pages

Genesis (Or: How This Book Came to Be)

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Premises, Terminology, and Methods of Inquiry 1

ByBarbara Thiede

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chapter 2|20 pages

Centering Survivors

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“The Work Is Not Finished” 1

ByLisa Oakley, Yehudis Fletcher, Gerald West, Sithembiso Zwane, Barbara Thiede, Johanna Stiebert

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chapter 3|26 pages

Origin Stories

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Scholars Introduce Rape Culture, Survivor Voices, and Intersectionality 1

ByHarold C. Washington, Pamela Gordon, Caroline Blyth, Mitzi J. Smith, Barbara Thiede

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chapter 4|24 pages

Sexual Abuse and Violence in the Hebrew Bible

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Terminology, Masculinity, and Intersectionality, Reprised 1

BySandie Gravett, Ken Stone, Sarojini Nadar, Barbara Thiede, Johanna Stiebert

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chapter 5|32 pages

Sexual Abuse, Sexual Violence, and Judeophobia in Text and Church

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ByMiryam Clough, David Tombs, Meredith J. C. Warren, Eric Vanden Eykel, Barbara Thiede, Johanna Stiebert

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chapter 6|8 pages

Final Reflections

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ByBarbara Thiede

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Hunting and Extinctions in Southwest Asia and North America: The Silent Testimony of Communal Game Traps

Hunting and Extinctions in Southwest Asia and North America: The Silent Testimony of Communal Game Traps

By Dani Nadel, Guy Bar-Oz, Dan Malkinson, Leland Bement

 

Hunting and Extinctions in Southwest Asia and North America: The Silent Testimony of Communal Game Traps explores communal game traps for harvesting ungulate herds in two continents, utilizing a comparative approach addressing settings, species, and the hunters’ societies.

The kites of Southwest Asia have been known to archaeologists for almost one hundred years but with the advent of high‑resolution satellite images, thousands of sites have been found. Using the rich data from the Southwest and Central Asia and North America, this book addresses some of the important questions that arise concerning the social, economic and environmental implications of ancient and recent use of large game traps. This book has four major parts. The first introduces the book and reviews the evolution of human hunting. The second part presents examples of desert kites from various areas of Southwest and Central Asia. Detailed case studies are included that use a variety of evidence such as aerial surveys, field surveys, excavations, eye witnesses accounts, and petroglyph depictions. Environmental and geographical settings of the isolated traps, the clusters of traps, and the long chains are explored to provide conceptual models regarding past herd behavior and their seasonal migrations. The third part presents examples of communal game traps in various regions in North America, addressing the same issues discussed in the second part. The fourth part provides a comparative study of game traps in North America with the kites of Southwest Asia, focusing on the settings, species, and social organization of the hunters.

With the research on communal game traps increasing rapidly, this book provides the first inclusive synthesis on the subject and is for archaeologists, anthropologists, zoologists, ecologists, and environmentalists who are interested in past interactions between humans and their environments, and the impact of past human communities on the landscape and on target game populations, as well as the consequences that are still relevant today.

Edition 1st Edition

First Published 2025

eBook Published 7 December 2025

Pub. Location London

Imprint Routledge

DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003483168

Pages 398

eBook ISBN 9781003483168

TABLE OF CONTENTS

part 1|46 pages

Introduction

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Introduction

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chapter 2|25 pages

The Evolution of the Human Hunt

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part 2|122 pages

The Kites of Southwest-Central Asia

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The Settings and Sources for Reconstructing Kite Use

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chapter 4|71 pages

The Archaeology of the Kites in Southwest and Central Asia

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part 3|110 pages

The Traps of North America

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The Settings and Sources for Reconstructing Trap Use

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chapter 6|65 pages

The Archaeology of the North American Traps

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part 4|92 pages

Discussion – Southwest Asia and North America

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chapter 7|38 pages

The Ecology and Archaeology of Traps and Reconstructed Migration Models

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chapter 8|37 pages

Social Aspects of Communal Hunting

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chapter 9|15 pages

Past and Future

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Ergebnisse zur archäologischen Abbruchbegleitung der ehemaligen Eternitfabrik im Bereich des augusteisch-tiberischen Truppenplatzes NOVAESIUM im Neusser Augustinusviertel

Ergebnisse zur archäologischen Abbruchbegleitung der ehemaligen Eternitfabrik im Bereich des augusteisch-tiberischen Truppenplatzes NOVAESIUM im Neusser Augustinusviertel 

Stefanie Esser

 

Neuss gehört zu den wenigen Orten in Deutschland, deren Wurzeln tief in der Antike liegen. Schon in den letzten beiden vorchristlichen Jahrzehnten befand sich hier an der Mündung der Erft in den Rhein eine stark befestigte Operationsbasis der römischen Streitkräfte. Dort führte das Pulheimer Fachbüro minerva X in den Jahren 2021 und 2022 auf dem ca. 7 ha großen Gelände der ehemaligen Eternitfabrik anlässlich des Abbruchs der Werkshallen eine archäologische Untersuchung durch. Wenngleich der Fundplatz als Teil des augusteisch-tiberischen Truppenplatzes NOVAESIUM seit Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts bekannt ist und hier über Jahrzehnte zahlreiche Maßnahmen stattfanden, bildet der derzeitige Publikationsstand nicht die Höhe der Forschung ab. Der vorliegende Bericht fasst den aktuellen Forschungsstand zusammen und gibt eine Übersicht der Befundlage im Westen der UNESCO-Welterbefläche. 

Lizenz

Dieses Werk steht unter der Lizenz Creative Commons Namensnennung 4.0 International.

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https://doi.org/10.11588/propylaeum.1655

ISBN 978-3-96929-452-9 (PDF)

Veröffentlicht

12.12.2025

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Seiten

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Titelei

Inhalt

5-7

1 Anlass

8-11

2 Geologie, geographische und topographische Beschreibung

11-14

3 Historischer Kontext, Archivlage und Forschungsstand

14-28

4 Technische Vorgehensweise

29-47

5 Befunde und Funde

47-160

6 Resümee

160-166

7 Abkürzungen

167

8 Quellen und Literaturverzeichnis

 

Time and Tradition:Temporal Thinking in Ecclesiastes in the Context of Emerging Apocalypticism and the History of Ideas in the Hellenistic Period

Time and Tradition:Temporal Thinking in Ecclesiastes in the Context of Emerging Apocalypticism and the History of Ideas in the Hellenistic Period 

Moritz F. Adam

 

Moritz F. Adam explores conceptions of time in the book of Ecclesiastes and its place in the history of thought in Hellenistic Judaism. He situates Ecclesiastes before a wider panorama of emerging apocalyptic thought and investigates how the text reflects, resists, and reworks prevailing ideas about time, history, knowledge, and meaning. Adam shows how Ecclesiastes stands at an important moment of conceptual transformation to the manner in which time was thought about in ancient Judaism, and how the book reflects new, broader, totalising, and abstract concerns in conversation with contemporary interlocutors. Through textual studies, comparative discussions and theoretical engagements with the fields of Classics and Literature, Adam challenges scholarly boundaries between wisdom, apocalypticism, and other genres, and highlights Ecclesiastes' pluralistic, open-ended discourse as a vital part of ancient Jewish thought.

2025. 335 pages.

Forschungen zum Alten Testament (FAT) 191

DOI 10.1628/978-3-16-164798-7

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Table of contents:

Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: The Date and Compositional History of the Book of Ecclesiastes
A. Composition
B. Structure
C. Dating
D. Excursus: The Problem of the Abstract Orientation of the Book of Ecclesiastes and Its Deliberate Avoidance of Historical and Contextual References
Chapter 3: The Status Quaestionis in Scholarship on Ecclesiastes and Apocalypticism
A. Ancient Perspectives on Apocalyptic Dimensions in Ecclesiastes
B. Categories and Problems in the Modern History of Scholarship
C. On the Approach of this Overview on the Status Quaestionis
D. Wisdom and Apocalypticism Since the Middle of the 20th Century
E. Ecclesiastes and Apocalypticism in Recent Scholarship
F. Scholarly Engagements with the Subject of Time in Ecclesiastes
Chapter 4: Reflections on Method
Chapter 5: Polemic, Critique, and Intellectually Constitutive Interaction: Eccl 4:17-5:6 as a Test Case
A. Dreaming as a Mode of Revelation
B. Mediation by Angels
Chapter 6: Rhetoric and Discourse in Ecclesiastes and 4QInstruction: AComparative Test Case
Chapter 7: The Genre Apocalyptic: Rethinking Morphologies
A. What is Apocalypticism? Problems in Taxonomy
B. Prototype Theory
C. Constellations
D. Discourses in Ancient Jewish Thought - Three Propositions
Chapter 8: The Category of Time in the Book of Ecclesiastes and Its Place in the History of Ideas
A. Time as a Total Category in the Hellenistic Period
B. Time as Ordered and Arranged
C. Comparative Reflections
Chapter 9: Time and Abstraction: Moving Across Tradition as a Mode of Literary Authorisation
A. Authorisation by Ascription
B. The Historical Blending of Ideas
Chapter 10: Pluriformity and Pluralism: Literary Diversity, Hermeneutical Openness, and the Function of Texts in Second Temple Judaism
A. Ecclesiastes and Pluriformity
B. Method
C. Calendars and Total History
D. Variety and Vitality in the Dead Sea Scrolls
E. New Cultural Histories
F. Intellectual Pluralism in Ecclesiastes
G. Excursus: Literary-Theoretical Points of Comparison
Chapter 11: Conclusions

 

 

«Sentido de un empeño». Homenatge a Gregorio del Olmo Lete

«Sentido de un empeño». Homenatge a Gregorio del Olmo Lete

Feliu Mateu, Lluís

Millet Albà, Adelina

Vidal Palomino, Jordi 

 

Aquest volum és un homenatge, des de la gratitud i l’admiració, a Gregorio del Olmo Lete, catedràtic emèrit de Literatura Hebrea de la Universitat de Barcelona, per la seva immensa obra acadèmica, reconeguda arreu del món, i sobretot per la seva infatigable tasca de promoció dels Estudis Orientals a les nostres universitats. La creació de la revista Aula Orientalis i la fundació de l’Institut del Pròxim Orient Antic de la UB són fites que han marcat la carrera de tots els que participen en aquesta miscel.lània, en què s’apleguen treballs de temàtica molt variada (assiriologia, semitística, indoeuropeística, estudis bíblics, historiografia, etc.), reflex de la diversitat de la labor docent i científica del professor del Olmo. 

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Neo-Sumerian barley allotment rolls from the Umma region

Neo-Sumerian barley allotment rolls from the Umma region

Al-Taee, Ammar M.

Feliu Mateu, Lluís 

 

 This volume contains a complete edition of sixteen Neo-Sumerian barley allotment rolls from the Umma region, twelve of which are currently kept in the Iraq National Museum, while the other four tablets remain in private hands. The work includes a study of the lists of workers and the different professions and occupations of the personnel, and establishes the possible context of the tablets. An analysis of the rich onomastic material recorded in the texts is also provided, as well as a prosopographical evaluation of each individual.

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Studies in Sumerian Civilization. Selected writings of Miguel Civil

Studies in Sumerian Civilization. Selected writings of Miguel Civil

Civil, Miguel, 1926-

Feliu Mateu, Lluís

Institut del Pròxim Orient Antic 

Miguel (or Miquel) Civil’s oeuvre has been unanimously acclaimed by the entire Assyriological community, from his first contributions in the 1960s to the most recent publications today. This volume gathers together his principal articles, which have been published in the most prestigious series and periodicals in the field of cuneiform studies. Every expert in the civilizations of ancient Mesopotamia has been influenced by Civil’s profound researches: the perspicacity of his proposals, the novelty of his suggestions and the originality of his solutions. Cuneiform studies would be a completely different discipline were it not for the stimulus and impact of the work of a scholar who created his own school, and who will be leaving a mark on many generations to come.

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