Includes bibliographical references (pages 121-147) and index.
"You Have the Forehead of a Whore" : The Rhetoric of a Metaphor -- "Is She Not My Wife?" : Prophets, Audiences, and Expectations -- "Am I Not Her Husband?" : The Unpredictable and Unimaginable God -- "Yet I Will Remember My Covenant with You" : The World of Romance and Rape.
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Weems's 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 wrestles with the prophets' rhetoric and sexual metaphors to uncover Israelite social structures, asking, "What is implied about women, men, and God by the language that the prophets use to describe the covenant between Yahweh and Israel?" This work delves into issues of intimacy and power, violence and control, seduction and betrayal.--From publisher's description.
Bible., Prophets-- Criticism, interpretation, etc.