Revisiting Judges 19: A Gothic Perspective

This study deploys Gothic scholarship to illuminate one of the more harrowing passages of the Bible—the story of the Levite and his concubine in Judges 19. Reading this passage against familiar Gothic tropes of cannibalism, excess, abjection and mutilation, this study argues that the concubine'...

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Main Author: Hock-Soon, Andrew (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Sage 2007
In: Journal for the study of the Old Testament
Year: 2007, Volume: 32, Issue: 2, Pages: 199-215
Further subjects:B abjection
B homosocial panic
B Gothic scene
B travelling woman
B Cannibalism
B textual burial
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