{"id":60532,"date":"2019-08-02T16:37:27","date_gmt":"2019-08-02T13:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=60532"},"modified":"2023-02-26T16:30:30","modified_gmt":"2023-02-26T14:30:30","slug":"a-voice-of-protest-against-a-backdrop-of-cruelty-and-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/a-voice-of-protest-against-a-backdrop-of-cruelty-and-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"A Voice Of Protest Against A Backdrop Of Cruelty And Violence"},"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":[393,503,457,567,543],"acf":{"old_id":"60532","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":39842,"related_cahpter":"276","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"With her screams, Tamar teaches us that rape cannot simply be the way of the world\u00a0","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The story of Amnon and Tamar is a harrowing Biblical moment. In II Kings, a book defined by violence and power struggles, the stark cruelty of sexual assault stands out. Tamar herself, though, acts as a voice of protest against this violence; it would be easy, against a backdrop of war and conquest, for rape to become simply part of the gory scenery. Tamar\u2019s own actions prevent this.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In contrast to the relative silence of Bathsheba in her initial interactions with David (which, of course, also differ importantly in that the text is unclear in how willing Bathsheba was in the affair), Tamar is vocal during Amnon\u2019s assault and in its aftermath. When Amnon attempts to force her to sleep with him, she begs him not to: \u201cDon\u2019t, brother. Don\u2019t force me. Such things are not done in Israel! Don\u2019t do such a vile thing!\u201d (13:12) Through Tamar\u2019s voice, the text tells us: this is not the usual form of violence, which the reader might be inured to after pages of battles and death.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After she is raped, Tamar refuses to continue with business as usual, to act as if no wrong has been done to her. She tears her decorative clothing, that which represents her status as a daughter of the king, in a gesture of mourning, and puts ashes on her head. Most notably, she screams. The violence that she experienced is made known through her voice. She insists through her screams that she must not be the only one affected by this; others must hear and be disturbed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The reverberations of Amnon\u2019s assault of Tamar are in short order felt throughout the kingdom, and eventually lead to war, the more typical currency of power and brutality in Samuel and Kings. But Tamar\u2019s voice resists sexual violence fading into the rest of the book: with her screams, she teaches us that this cannot simply be the way of the world. It is a crisis that demands attention.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Image: Eustache Le Sueur: The Rape of Tamar, c. 1640, Metropolitan Museum of Art \/ wikimedia<\/span><\/p>\n","image":{"ID":60533,"id":60533,"title":"2sam13-AH-Le Seur","filename":"2sam13-AH-Le-Seur.jpg","filesize":0,"url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/2sam13-AH-Le-Seur.jpg","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/a-voice-of-protest-against-a-backdrop-of-cruelty-and-violence\/2sam13-ah-le-seur\/","alt":"","author":"7","description":"","caption":"","name":"2sam13-ah-le-seur","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":60532,"date":"2019-08-02 13:37:08","modified":"2019-08-02 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