Trickery as Vengeance in Men’s Literature
Taken from The Women's Bible Commentary
contributor: SPCK - Newsom, Ringe and Lapsley
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Trickery as Vengeance in Men’s Literature
Genesis 34 is a tale of trickery involving female sexuality. Dinah, daughter of Leah and Jacob, is raped by Shechem, the son of Hamor. The question of status that is addressed through trickery is not her status, however, but that of her brothers, whose rightful territory- that is, one of their women—has been breached by an outsider…
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