Rape Crimes: Sources Of The Hebrew Scriptures

The fact that Judith is a woman helps support the idea that if the Jews have God on their side, they can defeat their enemy the Assyrians even with a woman. Judith shares similarities with Deborah and Jael, by their actions to step in and save their people when men gave up. In contrast, they are different from their approach on ways of killing the General of their enemies, by either an army, summoning them to their tent, or going into their tent and killing them. Judith’s role as a woman and she sex, compares to Deborah and Jael and how their actions support the larger cultural values of patriarchy.

Genesis 34 describes the story of Dinah, her rape, and the events that follow. The story of Dinah has inspired many written publications which work to provide background to the life of Dinah and expand on her story because so little information is given on her life and the events that took place to merit her story in the bible. Interpreting the story of Dinah is a popular theme in articles and novels alike because of how little is known of the life of Dinah. Genesis 34 gives a brief snippet of information about Dinah, but instead focuses more on the actions of her brothers in response to Dinah and Shechem.

The story of the Concubine of a Levite in Judges 19-20 may be one of the harshest examples of female objectification throughout the Bible. The story takes place during a period without a monarch. It begins with the Levite Husband leaving his home to fetch his concubine who fled to her father 's home in Gibeah. This story showcases the brutal rape of a nameless woman.

A Rape in the Early Republic, edited by Randall L. Hall, is the complete text of the John Deskins Trial which was compiled by Alexander Smyth, a prominent congressman and attorney in the Deskins case. This early in American legal history, rape trials were rare and when they occurred, there was little-to-no documentation of the cases. For example, John Deskins was the only rapist to go to jail in 1806 . This recount is significant to the development of legal history because it addresses gender and sexual misconduct cases in the early republic. During this time, the United States legal system was constantly changing to reflect changes and developments in society, making this case pivotal in legal history. In order to remain true to Smyth’s

Through my reading of the article titled “Can she consent to sex after drinking” by Margaret Wente I identified two rape myths. As we know, rape myths are a set of beliefs about rape and sexual assault that feed into rape culture. These uneducated beliefs place the blame on rape victims rather than the perpetrators and attempt to blur the line between rape and consensual sex. In Wente’s article the rape myths I found are “As for those armies of would-be rapists lurking in every shadow – they’re your sons, your grandsons, your nephews and your brothers” and “If two young people get hammered and have drunken sex, he is responsible for his behaviour, but she’s not responsible for hers”. In the first rape myth the author uses a sense of sarcasm, what she is essentially say is that the people who you are calling rapist are in fact just your innocent friends and family. The author is assuming that people who commit acts of sexual violence are not people that we know. She uses this quote to make readers think that rapists are dark, devious, and unknown people. However, we know that in reality this is not the case, in approximately 80-90% of sexual assault cases the perpetrator is someone the victim knows. An overwhelming majority of rapes that occur on campuses are actually done so by the person the victim is dating or an acutance. Although the author tries to assume friends and family are not rapist, studies would argue to the contrary. In the second rape myth the author is

This biblical event was used as an encompassing example of the negative nature of women as well as their role in life. It also explicitly states that women are to submit to their husbands. This attitude of submission to male authority was expected from women in all circumstances.

Ironically, there is no mention of Dinah’s feelings or thoughts throughout Genesis 34. All the attention focuses not on Dinah, but the men around her. The one who is affected the most throughout this whole ordeal is somehow left in the shadow. There even is no reference to how she succumbs to being raped, and later deceived by her own blood.

(Anita, 2007, 234) Moreover, Rachel teaches Dinah not only knowledge and technique about delivering babies but also female values and philosophy about love, dedication and sacrifice. She is only one in the red tent who brings Dinah out of the red tent and encourages her to purser the true love bravely; she has given Dinah many spiritual supports and guidance. Furthermore, Rachel is a great teacher for Dinah and other women who live in the red tent. According to Reading the Women of the Bible, in the biblical time, women were undermined by the society in which they live in. They spent almost all their adult lives producing and looking after children.

Over the years, there has been a lot of sexual violence. According to the RAINN Campus Sexual Violence Statistics, Only 310 out of 1000 cases of assault are reported. The other 690 rape cases are not reported because the victims are terrified to come forward. This is so because they do not believe that they would be believed or because of being disowned or called horrible names. The 310 cases that are reported take a lot of time to process and gather evidence to prosecute the offenders. Some individuals believe that the offenders are only innocent, that the victims are either at fault for making up the story or that the justice system is using religion to prosecute these criminals. This study was done to show that religion is not a fact of

The curse demonstrates God’s overall disappointment with David. Moreover, his punishment is worsened because his noble status will make his suffering public to the citizens of Israel as a testament to God’s power. Ironically, David’s lust for women is reciprocated in the rape of his daughter Tamar because of the curse he carries. This is shown as the book states “ he overpowered her and humiliated her by raping her. Then Amnon greatly despised her.

But if the interpretation that Sisera was not invited into the tent is correct, Judges 5:27 could be read as Jael’s resistance from raping. The evidence can be observed from Sisera mother’s words in Judges 5:30, “…A girl or two for every man;”, taking women as captives, another sexual connotation , in which the Canaanites were the subject, and the women were the object. And the first line of narrative of Jael, “Most blessed of women be Jael…”(Judges 5:24), is more

In Lamentations 1-3, Judah is expressed in the text as "she" and the description of the destruction was similar to that of a "rape scene". In extent, Because the destruction of Judah was extremely treacherous and the opposers had no right to enter the land of Judah let alone ravage it, the metaphorical comparison to rape was one that was made to express immense grief. Lament Psalms is also poetry, one significant underlying theme was that Babylon will suffer what it forced on others. In continuance, the mere act of writing out the pain and suffering of the entrapped, in a way, allowed the people of Judah to become closer to their god. They now contained within them the capacity to remember "that the One who gave and cherished life would be there to protect and console" them throughout their entrapment (Rupp, 1).

Judges 11:29-40 is the story Jephthah and his unnamed daughter. Many people today read this unnamed daughter’s story and think of her as a hero. Yet, her actions should not be the only focal point. Jephthah’s daughter’s story is meaningful in revealing the corruption of society in Judges and leads to problematic questions about the people surrounding her.

Growing up in a conservative Christian church, I was taught that the gospel was one, complete, and indestructible whole — particularly as it applied to human sexuality. But it’s not that simple.

The future conditions of the woman’s potential marital worth were much poorer than any punishment the violator could have received. Once a woman was raped, her virginity was no longer available for her husband to have. “‘Virginity is the ornament of morals, the sanctity of the sexes, the peace of families and the source of the greatest friendships.’ Its existence was a precondition for marriage. To publicly breach it was to compromise honor, rank, even life; a ‘deflowered’ girl inevitably became a ‘lost’ girl. . . ‘The ravishing of virginity was the worst rape of all.’” (Cite Book 1) An innocent woman had now completely lost her worth to society and her own dignity due to a man’s egocentric and merciless actions.