The Demand to Listen to Korean “Comfort Women” and to Two Biblical Women

Correlated to the experiences of Korean comfort women, the story of Solomon’s judgment (1 Kgs. 3:16–28) becomes a resistance narrative to hegemonic powers. The interpretation discusses the literary strategies of the women’s identities and naming, the emerging reversal of power, the issues of mimicry...

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Main Author: Yoo, Yani (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Oxford University Press 2020
In: The Oxford handbook of feminist approaches to the Hebrew Bible
Year: 2020
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B South Korea / Japan / Violence / Sexual behavior / Prostitution / Solomon Israel, King / Wisdom / Power change / Ambiguity
IxTheo Classification:AD Sociology of religion; religious policy
HB Old Testament
Further subjects:B Bibel. Könige, 1., 3,16-28
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Summary:Correlated to the experiences of Korean comfort women, the story of Solomon’s judgment (1 Kgs. 3:16–28) becomes a resistance narrative to hegemonic powers. The interpretation discusses the literary strategies of the women’s identities and naming, the emerging reversal of power, the issues of mimicry, mockery, ambiguity, and the conspiracy of readers. The Japanese military comfort women of World War II serve as the geopolitical context with which the interpretation justifies its focus on the two biblical women. It becomes apparent that colonizing and patriarchal powers ignore victim-survivors of sexual violence and abuse whether in the biblical text or in recent Korean history. Biblical texts and recent wartime events illuminate each other.
ISBN:0190462698
Contains:Enthalten in: The Oxford handbook of feminist approaches to the Hebrew Bible
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190462673.013.8