Battered Love: Marriage, Sex, and Violence in the Hebrew Prophets by Renita J. Weems

Battered Love: Marriage, Sex, and Violence in the Hebrew Prophets

Overtures to Biblical Theology

Renita J. Weems

168 pages first pub 1995 (editions)

nonfiction religion challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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Weems's pioneering study explores the puzzling ways in which the Hebrew prophets' portrayals of divine love, compassion, and conventional commitment often became associated with battery, infidelity, and the rape and mutilation of women. She wrestl...

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