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| 0690-2227-01 | Sexual Violence in the Bible and Ancient Near East | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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University credit hours: 2.0
Course description
Sexual violence in the Bible and in the ancient Near East
Sexual violence is an aggressive action with a sexual intent. Its object is to define the dominance of the attacker in a power struggle between the parties. At the first stage, this issue will be dealt according to the data available in the Biblical and ancient Near Eastern Laws; the objective will be to reveal the social concepts behind the formulation of the laws.
At the second stage, Biblical episodes dealing with violence will be examined. We will try to understand what is the function of scenes describing sexual violence in light of normative behaviour as revealed by the Laws.
Sexual violence is an aggressive action with a sexual intent. Its object is to define the dominance of the attacker in a power struggle between the parties. At the first stage, this issue will be dealt according to the data available in the Biblical and ancient Near Eastern Laws; the objective will be to reveal the social concepts behind the formulation of the laws.
At the second stage, Biblical episodes dealing with violence will be examined. We will try to understand what is the function of scenes describing sexual violence in light of normative behaviour as revealed by the Laws.