RT Article
T1 Dismantling the Phallic Economy with a Hermeneutics of Reproductive Justice: A Reconsideration of the Sotah in Numbers 5:11-31
JF Journal of religious ethics
VO 49
IS 2
SP 270
OP 289
A1 Scholz, Susanne 1963-
LA English
YR 2021
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1767697236
AB A reproductive justice reading of Numbers 5:11–31 centers on “the human right to maintain personal bodily autonomy, have children, not have children, and parent the children we have in safe and sustainable communities,” as the SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective stated so lucidly twenty years ago. Accordingly, a reproductive justice interpretation stresses the ethical imperative of reading Numbers 5:11–31 within the context of the reproductive justice movement. The interpretation centers on the most marginalized character—the woman—by recasting the woman’s experience as sexual violence and not as adultery; it addresses the intersecting oppression as it is represented by the husband whose ally is the priest; it analyzes the depicted power system in Numbers 5:11–31; and it reimagines the dusty water drink as an herbal abortifacient.
K1 Adultery
K1 Sotah
K1 SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective
K1 Numbers 5:11-31
K1 Rape
K1 hermeneutics of reproductive justice
DO 10.1111/jore.12351