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song of songs is entirely lustful and pornographic even promoting incest.
yet christians and jesus thought this was a holy book,even a book of lewdness.
yet christians and jesus thought this was a holy book,even a book of lewdness.
Personified capital cities threatened with rape
In some Nevi'im or prophetic books in the Hebrew Bible, the Israelite god Yahweh pronounces the rape of capital cities as pars pro toto allegory for the state it governs, personifying them as sinful women such as "prostitutes" and "adulteresses" which thus deserves various punishments[165] to be carried out when the city is conquered.[165] Although this metaphor, in which Yahweh often addresses a city as if it were his wife or virgin daughter who has forsaken him and her own honour, is often applied to Jerusalem (and once to Samaria), it is also applied to non-Israelite cities such as Babylon and Nineveh.[165] Gordon and Washington (1995) remarked: "[T]he city as an object of violence is always a feminine Other, reinforcing the status of the feminine as secondary, and facilitating a pornographic objectification of women by setting the female as the model victim."[143]: 318 Scholz (2021) argued that these threats of rape and other punishments do not only serve as a warning to the Israelites and Judahites or to foreign peoples not to fall into sin lest they be judged and punished, but especially towards all women. Ezekiel 16 and 23 in particular send a double message to not just Israelite and Judahite society in general not to be unfaithful to Yahweh, but to women in those societies not to be unfaithful to their husbands (especially by having sex with foreign men); women who do, will be publicly raped, shamed and executed by foreign soldiers to deter other women from marital infidelity.[165] Along the same lines, J.K. Kim (1999) stated about the Whore of Babylon: "The whore metaphor does not simply stand for the imperial city of Rome but also stands for women sexually involved in a colonizing context."[166] In Nahum 3, Yahweh seems to be threatening to personally rape the city of Nineveh himself instead of having foreign soldiers do it by his orders or with his endorsement.[161] Similarly in Isaiah 3 and Jeremiah 13, the Israelite god himself is threatening to sexually assault or rape the "Daughters of Zion" (women of Jerusalem/Judah).[167]| Personified capital cities threatened with rape[168][166] | ||||||
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| Bible chapter | Woman, relation to Yahweh | City addressed | State personified | Alleged sins | Punishments | Punisher |
| Isaiah 3 | Daughters of Zion | Jerusalem | Kingdom of Judah | Arrogance and pride | Public sexual assault and shame | Yahweh (God of Israel) |
| Isaiah 13 | (Pride & glory Babylonians) | Babylon | Neo-Babylonian Empire | Arrogance and pride (Babylonian captivity?) | Murder, infanticide, rape, arson | Foreign soldiers (endorsed by Yahweh) |
| Isaiah 23 | Virgin daughter (Sidon) | Tyre, Sidon | Phoenician city-states | Avarice, materialism (wealth from trade) | Rape? Arson | Foreign soldiers (endorsed by Yahweh) |
| Isaiah 47 | Virgin daughter | Babylon | Neo-Babylonian Empire | Babylonian captivity | Futile resistance, rape, public shame | Foreign soldiers (endorsed by Yahweh) |
| Jeremiah 13 | - | Jerusalem | Kingdom of Judah | Arrogance and pride | Rape, victim-blaming | Yahweh (God of Israel) |
| Lamentations 1 | Virgin daughter Zion/Judah | Jerusalem | Kingdom of Judah | "Sins", military defeat (587 BCE) | Rape? Public shame, sacrilege, mixing cultures | Foreign soldiers (endorsed by Yahweh) |
| Lamentations 4 | Daughter Edom | - | Kingdom of Edom | "Wickedness" (vassalage to Babylonia 605 BCE?) | Made drunk and raped | Foreign soldiers / Yahweh |
| Ezekiel 16 | Wife | Jerusalem | Kingdom of Judah | Marital infidelity, mixing with foreign cultures | Mutilation, rape, public shame, murder, arson | Foreign soldiers (endorsed by Yahweh) |
| Ezekiel 23 | Oholah, wife | Samaria | Kingdom of Israel (Samaria) | Marital infidelity, mixing with foreign cultures | Mutilation, rape, public shame, murder, arson | Foreign soldiers (endorsed by Yahweh) |
| Ezekiel 23 | Oholibah, wife | Jerusalem | Kingdom of Judah | Marital infidelity, mixing with foreign cultures | Mutilation, rape, public shame, murder, arson | Foreign soldiers (endorsed by Yahweh) |
| Hosea 2 | Gomer, wife | - | Kingdom of Israel (Samaria) | Marital infidelity, worshipping other gods | Dehydration, captivity, theft, public shame, rape | Hosea / Yahweh |
| Nahum 3 | (enemy) | Nineveh | Neo-Assyrian Empire | "Prostitution and witchcraft" (Assyrian captivity?) | Public rape, shame and abandonment, arson | Yahweh (God of Israel) |