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God is markedly absent in the three rape narratives in the Hebrew Bible (Genesis 34, Judges 19, and 2 Samuel 13). Drawing on methodologies from literary criticism and gender studies, this dissertation situates rape in its historical context, then analyzes a pattern of four eleme…

This dissertation resolves a number of ideological difficulties in 1 Kings 1-11 through use of an adjusted model of the popular Double Redaction theory of the Deuteronomistic History (Db1R). (The Db1R holds that the biblical books of Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, 1-2 Samuel, and …