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Portraying Spousal Violence in Ancient West Asia
Portraying Spousal Violence in Ancient West Asia
Portraying Spousal Violence in Ancient West Asia

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자료유형  
 학위논문 서양
최종처리일시  
20260202104725
ISBN  
9798293890132
DDC  
330
저자명  
Cohen, Noam Erik.
서명/저자  
Portraying Spousal Violence in Ancient West Asia
발행사항  
[Sl] : New York University, 2025
발행사항  
Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2025
형태사항  
464 p
주기사항  
Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 87-03, Section: A.
주기사항  
Advisor: Fleming, Daniel E.
학위논문주기  
Thesis (Ph.D.)--New York University, 2025.
초록/해제  
요약Spousal violence, a subset of intimate partner violence (IPV), is unfortunately rather common, but little discussed. This dissertation sheds light on how spousal violence was portrayed in texts from ancient West Asia, including texts from the Hebrew Bible, Mesopotamia, Ugarit, and Anatolia. This study utilizes a variety of approaches, including historical-critical methodology, gender, queer, and feminist theory, violence studies, and cultural legal history to contextualize and probe extant portrayals of spousal violence from ancient West Asia. The dissertation is arranged topically, with chapters on spousal surrender, husband abuse, violence in response to adultery, and strategies for leaving abusive husbands.Throughout, two major sets of terminology are employed to clarify how spousal violence is being portrayed. The first is the language of illegitimate/legitimate violence and unacceptable/acceptable violence. This terminology, borrowed from violence studies, refers respectively to violence un/permitted by law/the state, and to violence un/permitted from a social or cultural perspective. The second terminology employed throughout is that of "fuzzy, messy and icky," developed by Rhiannon Graybill in her seminal work on biblical portrayals of sexual violence (Texts after Terror, 2021). These terms refer to ambiguity and irresolution, surprising or unexpected actions, and repulsion at violence, respectively.Following the introductory chapter 1, chapter 2 highlights a motif of "spousal surrender," in which one spouse surrenders the other, often to a hostile entity, to save themselves. This is first traced in ancient West Asian debt slavery law, where a husband is often given the latitude to sell his wife into debt slavery, and then in mythological and legendary narrative. These include Inana/Dumuzi and Ishtar/Tammuz texts, several narratives from Genesis, the Abigail and Nabal story in 1 Samuel 25, and the surrendering of a spouse to a gang rape in Judges 19. The narrative portrayals of violence largely suggest that spousal surrender was legitimate and acceptable, but nonetheless still icky.Chapter 3 is the first major study of husband abuse in texts from ancient West Asia, and demonstrates that narrative portrayals of husband abuse are largely favorable or ambivalent towards the violent wife. This perhaps surprising conclusion is likely due in part to the genres of these texts (myth and legend), and to the specific contexts of the narratives - Ishtar, for example, is often praised for being transgressive, which helps to explain why she is praised for abusing her husbands and lovers.Chapter 4 turns to violence in response to adultery, a theme that is present throughout ancient West Asian law, and, prominently, in biblical marriage/adultery metaphors. This chapter argues that these depictions, all of which rely on legal rhetoric, are more fantasy than "true law," in the sense that the legal basis itself is impossible to fulfil. The chapter concludes with an exploration of the function of these texts within scribal education in ancient West Asia, and suggests that they functioned pedagogically, especially as part of legal training. Depictions of hypersexualized women and violence against women may have served as pedagogical tools to capture the attention of young male scribal students in a heavily gendered schoolhouse culture, and also to introduce complex hypothetical legal cases.Chapter 5 takes a more historical turn, studying strategies available to women seeking to leave abusive husbands. This chapter makes clear that despite evidence seemingly to the contrary, it was extraordinarily difficult for a woman to safely and successfully initiate divorce in ancient West Asia. Instead, women needed administrative approval to separate from abusive husbands, a difficult feat to accomplish. This chapter provides several case studies for women seeking such approval, including cases complicated by the fact that the women in question are daughters of king Zimri-Lim of Mari. Even the great king had difficulty retrieving his daughters, in part due to political circumstances.Following a conclusion, the dissertation contains two appendices. The first compares biblical marriage metaphors with the only other preserved tale of a divine cuckold from ancient West Asia, demonstrating that the texts share several specific plot points, and that they are more comprehensible on a narrative level when read together as mythological narratives. The second appendix probes portrayals of spousal violence in one particular archive, that of an Old Babylonian royal woman name Iltani, with a special focus on the messiness of the violence and its repercussions.
일반주제명  
Near Eastern studies
일반주제명  
Biblical studies
일반주제명  
Gender studies
일반주제명  
Criminology
키워드  
Biblical portrayals
키워드  
Intimate partner violence
키워드  
Spousal violence
키워드  
Ancient West Asia
기타저자  
New York University Hebrew and Judaic Studies
기본자료저록  
Dissertations Abstracts International. 87-03A.
전자적 위치 및 접속  
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he  texts  share  several  specific  plot  points,  and  that  they  are  more  comprehensible  on  a  narrative  level  when  read  together  as  mythological  narratives.  The  second  appendix  probes  portrayals  of  spousal  violence  in  one  particular  archive,  that  of  an  Old  Babylonian  royal  woman  name  Iltani,  with  a  special  focus  on  the  messiness  of  the  violence  and  its  repercussions.
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