BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//The Canadian Institute for Mediterranean Studies - ECPv6.3.7//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:The Canadian Institute for Mediterranean Studies X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://www.mediterraneanstudies.ca X-WR-CALDESC:Events for The Canadian Institute for Mediterranean Studies REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Toronto BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20210314T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20211107T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20210211T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20210211T200000 DTSTAMP:20240419T155722 CREATED:20210622T212542Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220717T012445Z UID:118-1613070000-1613073600@www.mediterraneanstudies.ca SUMMARY:Unholy Texts: Reading Biblical Rape Narratives DESCRIPTION:Carl Ehrlich\, York University \n \n  \nThe topic of rape appears a number of times in the Hebrew Bible (or Old Testament).  It may be found broached both explicitly and implicitly in texts reflective of a number of literary genres\, including legal texts\, narrative texts\, poetic texts\, and prophetic texts.  While the violent act of rape is nowhere condoned\, it was a tragic fact of life in the biblical world – as it still is in ours.  This lecture will survey biblical texts relating to rape in a number of literary genres and attempt to classify the allusions to rape according to various literary\, social\, theological\, and legal criteria. URL:https://www.mediterraneanstudies.ca/lecture/unholy-texts-reading-biblical-rape-narratives/ LOCATION:Online with Zoom CATEGORIES:Toronto Chapter END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR