Mrs. Lot: Vilified or victim? Sinner or salt?

Patriarchal and punitive characterization often casts the silenced Mrs. Lot as a disobedient and unfaithful sinner who ignored God's command not to look back. Because she did, a common conclusion is that she ostensibly lusted after the depravity of Sodom or Gomorrah as the towns were cataclysmi...

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Main Author: Miles-Tribble, Valerie (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Sage [2018]
In: Review and expositor
Year: 2018, Volume: 115, Issue: 4, Pages: 467-482
RelBib Classification:FD Contextual theology
HB Old Testament
NBE Anthropology
NCB Personal ethics
ZD Psychology
Further subjects:B liberative theoethics
B Feminist
B Lot's wife
B #MeToo
B Womanist
B Trauma
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