Battered Love
Marriage, Sex, and Violence in the Hebrew Prophets
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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.
- Publisher Fortress Press
- Format Paperback
- ISBN 9780800629489
- Dimensions 5.5 x 8.5
- Pages 168
- Publication Date November 30, 1995
Endorsements
"Renita Weems may well have given us one of the most significant texts in biblical scholarship in our time. Battered Love unmasks the violence against women incorporated in certain images and symbols used by some of the biblical prophets to convey God's relation to God's people. In her exciting work, Weems has provided insights that will influence womanists, feminists, and other scholars in religious studies to reflect upon the violence embedded in the sacred texts of the religions they explore. I recommend Battered Love to everyone who wants to know more about the anatomy of prophetic word in the Bible."
— Delores S. Williams, Union Theological Seminary
"Renita Weems has explored the capacity of sexist metaphors and images to authorize and legitimate sexist human power.... Weems is here breaking new ground and advancing the argument in important ways."
— Walter Bruegemann, Columbia Theological Seminary
— Delores S. Williams, Union Theological Seminary
"Renita Weems has explored the capacity of sexist metaphors and images to authorize and legitimate sexist human power.... Weems is here breaking new ground and advancing the argument in important ways."
— Walter Bruegemann, Columbia Theological Seminary
Table of Contents
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Editor's Foreword
- "You Have the Forehead of a Whore"
The Rhetoric of a Metaphor
- " Is She Not My Wife?"
Prophets, Audiences, and Expectations
- "Am I Not Her Husband?"
The Unpredictable and Unimaginable God
- "Yet I Will Remember My Covenant with You"
The World of Romance and Rape
Notes
Index
Acknowledgments
Introduction: A Metaphor's Fatal Attraction