RT Article
T1 Defilement of virgins in biblical law and the case of Dinah (Genesis 34)
JF Biblica
VO 86
IS 3
SP 369
OP 375
A1 Rofe, Aleksander 1932-
LA English
PB Peeters
YR 2005
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1645405621
AB Seduction or rape of a virgin in the Biblical milieu did not signify her being defiled. The Hebrew verb ṭimme' (to defile) applied to married or betrothed women only. The case of Dinah is an exception. In Genesis 34, it is stated three times that Jacob's daughter was defiled by Shechem (vv. 5.13.27). A plausible explanation of this state of affairs is that Genesis 34 reflects the late, postexilic notion that the idolatrous gentiles are impure which implies the prohibition of intermarriage and intercourse with them (Ezra 9,11-12). The concept of the impurity of idolaters persisted in post-biblical literature. Thus, the assertion that Dinah was defiled by Shechem betrays a late date of composition in respect of this story. This confirms Kuenen's hypothesis that Genesis 34 in its present form is a late chapter, containing an anti-Samaritan polemic which originated in the Restoration Community of the Fifth-Fourth centuries BCE.
K1 Dina : Biblische Person
K1 Bibel : Genesis : 34
K1 Jungfräulichkeit
K1 Sexualität
K1 Vergewaltigung