Did Lot Get His Just Desserts?: Trauma, Revenge, and Re-enactment in Genesis 19.30-38

In Genesis 19.30-38, Lot’s daughters commit incest with their father to save his seed. Earlier in Genesis 19.6-8, Lot offered his daughters to be raped by the men of Sodom to save the honour of his male guests. Reading these stories together, in the latter, we observe an inverted world where victims...

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Main Author: Cobb, Kirsi (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Sage 2022
In: Journal for the study of the Old Testament
Year: 2022, Volume: 47, Issue: 2, Pages: 189-205
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Lot Biblical character / Dream / Vengeance / Repetition / Old Testament / Bible. Genesis 19
IxTheo Classification:HB Old Testament
HD Early Judaism
HH Archaeology
Further subjects:B Trauma Theory
B Hebrew Bible
B Lot’s daughters
B insidious trauma
B Revenge
B Genesis 19
B re-enactment
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