{"id":60436,"date":"2019-08-01T13:50:41","date_gmt":"2019-08-01T10:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=60436"},"modified":"2023-02-26T17:03:02","modified_gmt":"2023-02-26T15:03:02","slug":"echoes-of-earlier-rapes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/echoes-of-earlier-rapes\/","title":{"rendered":"Echoes of Earlier Rapes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[281],"tags":[457],"acf":{"old_id":"60436","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":54356,"related_cahpter":"276","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"Leading once again to murderous vengeance and civil war","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">13:12 \u201cAnd she said to him, \u2018Don\u2019t, my brother, don\u2019t abuse me, for it should not be done thus in Israel, don\u2019t do this scurrilous thing.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Commentary: The language here echoes that of another sexual episode in Genesis, the rape of Dinah (Genesis 34). Again, the divergence in the parallel is significant, for Dinah\u2019s rapist comes to love her after violating her and wants to make things good by marriage, whereas Amnon despises Tamar after he possesses her, and drives her away. The rape in both stories leads to muderous fraternal vengeance. But our writer\u2019s game of brilliant literary allusion does not end here, for as Robert Polzin has pointed out, Tamar\u2019s words are also a precise echo of the plea of the Ephraimite in Gibeah to the mob of rapists: \u201cDon\u2019t, my brothers&#8230;Don\u2019t do this scurrilous thing\u201d (Judges 19:23). That story ended in the woman\u2019s being gang-raped to death, an act that in turn led to bloody civil war &#8212; as Tamar\u2019s rape will lead to fratricide and, eventually, rebellion and civil war.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From: Robert Alter, <em>The Hebrew Bible<\/em>, vol. 2: Prophets, W. W. Norton &amp; Co., 2019, ad loc. 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