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Concubine of a Levite

Judges 19-20

List of Reading and Resources: 

Articles

  • “Concubine” by Susanne Scholz

  • "The Levite’s Concubine" by Rhiannon Graybill

  • “Concubine of a Levite: Bible” by Ken Stone

  • “Women and Violence in the Hebrew Bible” by Tamara Cohn Eskenazi

  • “The Story of the Concubine at Gibeah: A Satire on King Saul” by Prof. Sara Milstein

  • “The Levite's Concubine” by Elaine Heath

Books

  • An Unnamed Woman: The Extravagance of Violence” (pp. 65-92) in Texts of Terror: Literary-Feminist Readings of Biblical Narratives by Phyllis Trible (1984)

  • “Raped by the Pen” (pp. 170-201) in Fragmented Women: Feminist (Sub)versions of Biblical Narratives by J. Cheryl Exum (1993)

  • “‘Ravish Them and Do to Them Whatever You Want’:Delilah, The Levite’s Concubine, and Determining the Status of Men’s Lovers and Wives” (pp.216-253) in Warrior, Dancer, Seductress, Queen: Women in Judges and Biblical Israel by Susan Ackerman (1998)

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This project has been created by Founder and Executive Director Debbie McLeod alongside a team of Yale-educated researchers: Anna Grace Glaize, McKenzie Brummond, Moriah Asch, Brian Peterson, Laura Traverse, Phoebe Oler, and Sarah Ambrose

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