“Judgement was Executed Upon Her, and she Became A Byword Among Women” (Ezek. 23:10): Divine Revenge Porn, Slut-Shaming, Ethnicity, and Exile in Ezekiel 16 and 23глава из книги
Аннотация: Ezekiel 16 and 23, two "marriage metaphor" texts, have frequently drawn critical attention from feminist biblical scholars due to their inclusion of shocking, retributive violence against the personified Samaria and Jerusalem, the "wives" of Yahweh.This chapter aims to develop an ethnicity-focused feminist approach to reading Ezekiel's deployment of sexualized imagery of the two female cities, whose "whoring" with foreign men and subsequent divinely decreed punishment by mutilation and public stripping serves as a figurative explanation of the conquest and ultimately the exile of Israel and Judah.While I acknowledge that both descriptions of Samaria and Jerusalem are predominantly metaphorical, I argue that by considering the texts as examples of slut-shaming the reader's eye is drawn to rarely acknowledged passages in the biblical accounts where the prophet reveals his underlying concern with the behavior of real women.As part of the public shaming of the feminized cities, not only are their bodies to be exposed to their foreign lovers but, crucially, this punishment is to be witnessed by other women-Ezekiel 16.41; 23.10, 48-and thus to function as a warning to the female population against apostasy, adultery, and sexual interaction with foreign men.My examination of the text will be divided into two sections.First, I will consider the "fantasy" element of chs 16 and 23, in which Ezekiel describes the crimes of personified Jerusalem and Samaria as a metaphor for religious infidelity in Israel and Judah, arguing that these sections also belie both a concern with the emasculation of Israelite and Judahite men and an equally strong anxiety around female sexual interaction with foreign men.Second, I will analyze the ways in which the description of God's punishment of Jerusalem in Ezekiel 16, and Samaria and Jerusalem in Ezekiel 23, functions as a form of divine "revenge porn" and "slut-shaming" that points toward the "reality" of life during the exilic period.These two terms have developed in recent years to describe the frequent public sexual shaming of women on the internet in response to perceived promiscuous behavior.Revenge porn, the act of sharing explicit images of a woman without her consent, usually following a breakup, is most frequently perpetrated by men.
Год издания: 2017
Источник: Bloomsbury T&T Clark eBooks
Ключевые слова: Biblical Studies and Interpretation, Development, Ethics, and Society
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