Language:
English
Year of publication:
2021
Titel der Quelle:
The Oxford Handbook of Feminist Approaches to the Hebrew Bible
Angaben zur Quelle:
(2021) 143-155
Keywords:
Bible Feminist criticism
;
Laments in the Bible
;
Laments History and criticism
;
Violence in the Bible
;
Violence Social aspects
;
Healing Psychological aspects
Abstract:
Globally, violence against women and girls is a pandemic—resulting in massive trauma and death. Certain scriptures and cultural texts condone the aggression; others adamantly protest heinous, unjust behaviors. Lament provides an avenue for naming and processing individual and communal violence, grief, and pain. This essay explores lament as response to pain and suffering generated amidst sexual and domestic violence, from a global womanist perspective. After providing a brief overview of my womanist biblical hermeneutic, this essay: (1) explores lament as a response to patriarchal misogynistic violence in Scripture, in dialog with global domestic violence; (2) explores lament embodied in selected Psalms, lamentations, and a lament by Beyoncé; and (3) concludes by invoking lament as a pathway of engaging global, daily loss and grief.
Note:
With special reference to Psalm XXII and Lamentations I.
DOI:
10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190462673.013.45
URL:
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