Understanding Genesis 34:2: ‘Innâ
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Feminist scholars have debated what happens to Dinah in Genesis 34:2. Was she raped? These short notes explore a contextual understanding of the meaning of ‘innâ, in this verse and other occurrences.
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Joseph Fleishman, “Why Did Simeon and Levi Rebuke Their Father in Genesis 34:31?,” Journal of Northwest Semitic Languages, 2000, 102. Fleishman also suggests an ane practice of marriage by abduction, in which consent by the parents is not given before consummation. Also, Helena Zlotnick, Dinah’s Daughters: Gender and Judaism from the Hebrew Bible to Late Antiquity (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002), 33-48.
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Bechtel, “What If Dinah Is Not Raped?”; Frymer-Kensky, “The Dinah Affair,” 182-87; “Law and Philosophy: The Case of Sex in the Bible,” Semeia 45 (1989): 93.
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Tarja S. Philip, “Gender Matters: Priestly Writing on Impurity,” in Embroidered Garments (Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2009), 52.
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Ken Stone, “‘You Seduced Me, You Overpowered Me, and You Prevailed’: Religious Experience and Homoerotic Sadomasochism in Jeremiah,” in Patriarchs, Prophets and Other Villains (London: Equinox, 2007), 104. Also, Sandie Gravett, “Reading ‘Rape’ in the Hebrew Bible: A Consideration of Language,” jsot 28, no. 3 (2004): 279.
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Reis, “Cupidity and Stupidity,” 49-50, 55. Reis translates teʽanēnî as “subdue.” Anmon urges her, “Come lie with me, my sister” (2 Sam 13:11). She initially protests, “No, my brother. Do not subdue me . . .” (Reis’s translation).
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Bechtel, “What If Dinah Is Not Raped?,” 22-23; Tikva Frymer-Kensky, In the Wake of the Goddesses: Women, Culture, and the Biblical Transformation of Pagan Myth (New York: Ballantine Books, 1992), 189.
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Understanding Genesis 34:2: ‘Innâ
In: Vetus TestamentumSearch for other papers by Alison L. Joseph in
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Feminist scholars have debated what happens to Dinah in Genesis 34:2. Was she raped? These short notes explore a contextual understanding of the meaning of ‘innâ, in this verse and other occurrences.
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