Gendered Violence in Biblical Narrative

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This book uses three examples of violent biblical stories about women, explored through the lens of conceptual metaphor theory in relation to culinary language used within these texts, to examine wider issues of gender and sexual violence in the Hebrew Bible. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Amuse-Bouche; 2. Stocking the Pantry; 3. The Woman in the Refrigerator: Consumption and Objectification in Judges 19; 4. Forbidden Fruit: Food and/as Consumption in 2 Samuel 13; 5. The Diner as Dinner: Jezebel and the Literalization of Metaphor; 6. Clearing the Table.