Gendered Violence in Biblical Narrative: The Devouring Metaphor

This book uses three examples of violent biblical stories about women, explored through the lens of conceptual metaphor theory in relation to culinary language used within these texts, to examine wider issues of gender and sexual violence in the Hebrew Bible.

Esther Brownsmith is Assistant Professor of Hebrew Bible at the University of Dayton in Dayton, Ohio, USA. She is editor-in-chief of the forthcoming Unruly Books: Rethinking Ancient and Academic Imaginations of Religious Texts.