
Episode 105: Wil Gafney - Womanist Midrash (REISSUE)
The Bible For Normal People
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Is the Bible a Language of Wond Slave?
Dila is, in my reading as a scholar, the woman in the hebrew bible who has the most identified sexual partners. She comes to to rachel as her slave that she was gifted by her father. And so i do argue that laban used bilha and zilpa sexually. That was normanif behavior, even if he were married. So this story can be a way of talking about sexual violence. Speaking of which, i can't let you go without hearing your thoughts on bathsheba.
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