Nancy Nam Hoon Tan is an independent scholar based in Singapore. Until January 2020, she was the Associate Professor in Hebrew Bible at Divinity School of Chung Chi College, the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

• 1. Introduction 2. Rape Culture and Sex Work in Hong Kong 3. Sex Workers Read Tamar 4. Sex Workers Read the Story of the Two Prostitutes and King Solomon 5. Sex Workers Read Gomer and the Female Prostitution Figures in Hosea 1–3 6. Summary and Conclusion

Resisting Rape Culture: The Hebrew Bible and Hong Kong Sex Workers is not afraid to ask difficult questions of the biblical text and fo demand new models of interpretation...This book is useful for every reader of the biblical text because it calls to task the very act of reading itself. It forces readers to investigate their ownsubjectivity and ask how they might be perpetuating violence and harm through their own reading practices, whether scholarly or not. Reading is never a neutral act; it is shaped by one’s own cultural context.- Addison R. Schievelbein, University of Oxford, Review of Biblical Literature (SBL, April 2026)

Nancy Nam Hoon Tan is an independent scholar based in Singapore. Until January 2020, she was the Associate Professor in Hebrew Bible at Divinity School of Chung Chi College, the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

• 1. Introduction 2. Rape Culture and Sex Work in Hong Kong 3. Sex Workers Read Tamar 4. Sex Workers Read the Story of the Two Prostitutes and King Solomon 5. Sex Workers Read Gomer and the Female Prostitution Figures in Hosea 1–3 6. Summary and Conclusion

Resisting Rape Culture: The Hebrew Bible and Hong Kong Sex Workers is not afraid to ask difficult questions of the biblical text and fo demand new models of interpretation...This book is useful for every reader of the biblical text because it calls to task the very act of reading itself. It forces readers to investigate their ownsubjectivity and ask how they might be perpetuating violence and harm through their own reading practices, whether scholarly or not. Reading is never a neutral act; it is shaped by one’s own cultural context.- Addison R. Schievelbein, University of Oxford, Review of Biblical Literature (SBL, April 2026)

Nancy Nam Hoon Tan is an independent scholar based in Singapore. Until January 2020, she was the Associate Professor in Hebrew Bible at Divinity School of Chung Chi College, the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

• 1. Introduction 2. Rape Culture and Sex Work in Hong Kong 3. Sex Workers Read Tamar 4. Sex Workers Read the Story of the Two Prostitutes and King Solomon 5. Sex Workers Read Gomer and the Female Prostitution Figures in Hosea 1–3 6. Summary and Conclusion

Resisting Rape Culture: The Hebrew Bible and Hong Kong Sex Workers is not afraid to ask difficult questions of the biblical text and fo demand new models of interpretation...This book is useful for every reader of the biblical text because it calls to task the very act of reading itself. It forces readers to investigate their ownsubjectivity and ask how they might be perpetuating violence and harm through their own reading practices, whether scholarly or not. Reading is never a neutral act; it is shaped by one’s own cultural context.- Addison R. Schievelbein, University of Oxford, Review of Biblical Literature (SBL, April 2026)