Violence against Women and Children in the Hebrew Bible

Kristine Henriksen Garroway is Visiting Professor of Hebrew Bible at Hebrew Union College, Israel. Hyun Chul Paul Kim is Professor of Hebrew Bible at Methodist Theological School in Ohio, USA.John W. Martens is Professor of Theology at St. Mark's College at UBC, Vancouver, Canada, and Director of the Centre for Christian Engagement.

• Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Contributor Bios 1. Introduction: The Place of Women, Children, and Violence in the Hebrew Bible, Kristine Henriksen Garroway, Hyun Chul Paul Kim, John W. MartensPART 1Violence against (Resilient) Children2. A Resilient Reading of the Young Miriam in Exodus 2, Paba Nidhani De Andrado3. The Perils of Prophetic Proximity: Violence against Children in the Elisha Narratives, M. L. CasePART 2Women and Children in the Context of War4. A Whole Burnt Offering to the LORD? Contextualizing Ritual Violence against Women and Children in the Deuteronomistic History and the Punishment of Achan, Anthony P. SooHoo, SJ5. Scorched Birth Tactics: The Eighth-Century Prophets and Rhetoric of Violence against Children in War, Jason A. Riley 6. Sons (and a Daughter) as Scary Semantic Signs: Naming Children in Isaiah 7–8 and Hosea 1 as Acts of Violence, Julie Faith Parker PART 3Texts of Violence and Contemporary Readership 7. The Lost and Found Children of Daughter Zion in Deutero-Isaiah, Angela Sawyer 8. “Wife of Promiscuity and Children of Promiscuity”: The Legitimation and Normalization of Sexual Violence and Illegitimacy Disability through Hosea’s Marriage Metaphor!, Alice Yafeh-Deigh9. Performing Grief for the “Ungrievable”: A Re-reading of Ezekiel 16 with The Statue of Peace, Jina Kang