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Removing Homosexuality from Sodom: Contextualizing Genesis 19 with Other Biblical Rape Narratives

Downey, H.R.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1494073944347884

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2017, Master of Humanities (MHum), Wright State University, Humanities.
This analysis disputes common interpretations that the Sodom narrative (Genesis 19) is an anti-homosexual story by presenting it as part of a four-story arc about rape in the Bible. The three other stories discussed in addition to Sodom are as follows: the gang rape of the Levite’s concubine (Judges 19), the rape of Dinah (Genesis 34), and the rape of Tamar (2 Samuel 13). Each of the four stories discussed in this analysis contain various types of sexual violence, such as male-to-male rape or attempted rape, female-to-male rape, and male-to-female rape; in each case, the rapes or attempted rapes lead to disastrous social consequences, which this analysis concludes is the overarching message to each of the four narratives. In addition, this analysis will consider how the Sodom narrative became incorrectly associated with homosexuality and the negative impact that this misinterpretation in American jurisprudence and the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community.
Mark Verman, Ph.D. (Committee Chair)
Patricia Schmil, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
Sarah McGinley (Committee Member)
Ava Chamberlain, Ph.D. (Other)
Valerie Stoker, Ph.D. (Other)
92 p.
Bible; Biblical Studies; Gender Studies; Glbt Studies; Political Science; Religion; Womens Studies
Bible; homosexuality; Sodom; sodomy laws; rape; American politics

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  • Downey, H.R. (2017). Removing Homosexuality from Sodom: Contextualizing Genesis 19 with Other Biblical Rape Narratives [Master's thesis, Wright State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1494073944347884

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Downey, H.R.. Removing Homosexuality from Sodom: Contextualizing Genesis 19 with Other Biblical Rape Narratives. 2017. Wright State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1494073944347884.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Downey, H.R.. "Removing Homosexuality from Sodom: Contextualizing Genesis 19 with Other Biblical Rape Narratives." Master's thesis, Wright State University, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1494073944347884

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