{"product_id":"sex-violence-and-early-christian-texts-9781793637840","title":"Sex, Violence, and Early Christian Texts","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eExamples of sexual violence and mentions of it appear with a disturbing level of frequency in the literature of early Christianity. This collection of essays explores these occurrences in canonical and noncanonical Christian texts from the first until the fifth centuries CE. Drawing from a range of interpretive lenses, scholars of early Christianity approach these writings with the goal of identifying how their authors employ the language of sexual assault, rape, and violence in order to formulate and support various rhetorical and theological claims. Individual chapters also address how and why these episodes of sexual violence have been ignored or, sometimes, read in a way that would make them less problematic. As a collection, Sex, Violence, and Early Christian Texts examines these texts carefully, ethically, and with an eye toward shining a light on the scourge of sexual violence that is so often manifest in both ancient and contemporary Christian communities.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChristy Cobb and Eric Vanden Eykel\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. Sexual Slander and Moral Supremacy in the Elenchos\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTara Baldrick-Morrone\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2. Danaids and Dirces in Roman Corinth: Sexualized Violence and Imperial Spectacle in 1 Clement\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChance E. Bonar\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3. Euclia’s Story: Coordinated Sexual Assault, Violence, and Willfulness in the Acts of Andrew”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChristy Cobb\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4. “Guardians of Chastity and Companions in Suffering”: The Didactic and Rhetorical Function of Rape Threats in Ambrose of Milan\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJennifer Collins-Elliott\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5. Corinthian Concerns and Textual Assault\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eArminta Fox\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6. Sexual Violence, Martyrdom, and Enslavement in Augustine’s Letter 111\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMidori Hartman\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7. Virginity, Bestiality, and Virtue in Sozomen’s Account of the Attack of the Consecrated Virgins of Heliopolis\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLaToya M. Leary Francis\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e8. Tertullian of Carthage, Sexualized Violence, and the “Abjection” of the Female Flesh\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTravis W. Proctor\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e9. Paul Trading Barbs: Sexual Invective as Gendered Violence\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJoshua M. Reno\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e10. Ambivalent Wedding Imagery in Matthew’s Jerusalem Narrative\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLaura Robinson\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e11. Virgin Acts: Blinding, Castration, \u0026amp; the Violence of Male Chastity\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJeannie Sellick\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e12. Assaulting the Virgin: How the Protevangelium of James Hides Sexual Violence\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEric Vanden Eykel\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e13. Five Husbands: Slut-Shaming the Samaritan Woman\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMeredith J. C. Warren\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e14. Revelation Naturalizes Sexual Violence and Readers Erase It: Unveiling the Son of God’s Rape of Jezebel\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStephen Young\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbout the Contributors\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042673590615,"sku":"9781793637840","price":76.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781793637840.jpg?v=1750955117","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/sex-violence-and-early-christian-texts-9781793637840","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}