This book explores the Bibles ongoing relevance in contemporary discussions around rape culture and gender violence. Each chapter considers the ways that biblical texts and themes engage with various forms of gender violence, including the subjective, physical violence of rape, the symbolic violence of misogynistic and heteronormative discourses, and the structural violence of patriarchal power systems. The authors within this volume attempt to name (and shame) the multiple forms of gender violence present within the biblical traditions, contesting the erasure of this violence within both the biblical texts themselves and their interpretive traditions. They also consider the complex connections between biblical gender violence and the perpetuation and validation of rape culture in contemporary popular culture. This volume invites new and ongoing conversations about the Bibles complicity in rape-supportive cultures and practices, challenging readers to read these texts in light of theglobal crisis of gender violence.

Caroline Blyth is Senior Lecturer in Religious Studies at the University of Auckland. Recent publications includeReimagining Delilahs Afterlives as Femme Fatale (2017). She is co-editor of theBible and Critical Theoryjournal, and founding member of the Shiloh Project, an interdisciplinary research group studying gender violence and religion.
Emily Colgan is Lecturer in Theology at Trinity Methodist Theological College, Auckland, and contributor to the Shiloh Project.
Katie B. Edwards is Director of the Sheffield Institute for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies and Senior Lecturer in the School of English, University of Sheffield. She is current co-editor of theBiblical Receptionjournal, and founding member of the Shiloh Project.

1: Introduction.- 2: For Precious Girls Everywhere: Lamentations, HIV, and Precious.- 3: Brother, Sister, Rape: The Hebrew Bible and Popular Culture.- 4: Queering the Virgin/Whore Binary: The Virgin Mary, the Whore of Babylon, and Sexual Violence .- 5: Rape Culture Discourse and Female Impurity: Genesis 34 as a Case Study.- 6: Andrea Dworkin on the Biblical Foundations of Violence against Women.- 7: Twelve Steps to the Tent of Zimri: An Imaginarium.- 8: Abandonment, Rape, and Second Abandonment: Hannah Baker in13 Reasons Why and the Royal Concubines in 2 Samuel 15-20 .- 9: To Ransom a Mans Soul: Male Rape and Gender Identity inOutlanderand The Suffering Man of Lamentations 3.- 10: Homophobia and Rape Culture in the Narratives of Early Israel.- 11: Marriage, Love, or Consensual Sex? Feminist Engagements with Biblical Rape Texts in Light of Title IX .- 12: Tough Conversations: Teaching Biblical Gender Violence inAotearoa New Zealand.