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Metaphors he lives by

Mieke Bal
- Iss: 61, pp 185-207
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Textually violating dinah literary readings, colonizing interpretations, and the pleasure of the text

TL;DR: The story of Dinah in Genesis 34 has been a contentious interpretative site in modern biblical exegesis and there are various positions taken on the precise meaning of both the interaction between Dinah and Shechem, as well as the brutal results that follow in the narrative as discussed by the authors.
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In the name of love resisting reader and abusive redeemer in deutero-isaiah

TL;DR: The authors argued that the prophet is announcing the fulfilment of the prophecy of restoration in Hos. 2:16-25 and is therefore both participating in the metaphor of sexual abuse that dominates Hos.2:4-15 and assuming that the threatened abuse has been perpetrated.