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Synopsis
Weems' pioneering study explores the puzzling ways in which the Hebrew prophets' portrayals of divine love, compassion and covenantal commitment became associated with battery, infidelity, and the rape and mutilation of women.
Society of Biblical Literature - Alice A. Keefe
[Weems] models the ongoing turn in biblical criticism away from a quest for the meaning intrinsic in texts towards a concern with the impact of social location and power dynamics upon the production and reception of texts....Although Weems primary contributions in this book are theological and hermeneutical, Battered Love is also refreshing for its departure from outdated and androcentric approaches to the text s historical contexts....[A]n essential touchstone for further discussion of the problem of violent sexual imagery in the Bible...