Dismantling the Phallic Economy with a Hermeneutics of Reproductive Justice: A Reconsideration of the Sotah in Numbers 5:11-31

A reproductive justice reading of Numbers 5:11–31 centers on “the human right to maintain personal bodily autonomy, have children, not have children, and parent the children we have in safe and sustainable communities,” as the SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective stated so lucid...

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1. VerfasserIn: Scholz, Susanne 1963- (Verfasst von)
Medienart: Elektronisch Aufsatz
Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: 2021
In: Journal of religious ethics
Jahr: 2021, Band: 49, Heft: 2, Seiten: 270-289
weitere Schlagwörter:B Numbers 5:11-31
B Rape
B Adultery
B Sotah
B SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective
B hermeneutics of reproductive justice
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Zusammenfassung:A reproductive justice reading of Numbers 5:11–31 centers on “the human right to maintain personal bodily autonomy, have children, not have children, and parent the children we have in safe and sustainable communities,” as the SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective stated so lucidly twenty years ago. Accordingly, a reproductive justice interpretation stresses the ethical imperative of reading Numbers 5:11–31 within the context of the reproductive justice movement. The interpretation centers on the most marginalized character—the woman—by recasting the woman’s experience as sexual violence and not as adultery; it addresses the intersecting oppression as it is represented by the husband whose ally is the priest; it analyzes the depicted power system in Numbers 5:11–31; and it reimagines the dusty water drink as an herbal abortifacient.
ISSN:1467-9795
Enthält:Enthalten in: Journal of religious ethics
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1111/jore.12351