Contributors Introduction: On Narrating Rape Rhiannon Graybill, L. Juliana Claassens, and Christl M. Maier Part I: Stories of Rape in Bible and Popular Culture 1. Recovering from Rape? Lacuna (Fiona Snyckers) in Conversation with Daughter Zion in Isaiah 51.17—52.2 L. Juliana Claassens 2. ‘Long Since Murdered’: Cozbi, The Kreutzer Sonata, and the Limits of Narrating Sexual Violence Rhiannon Graybill 3. Consensual Sex or Rape? Bathsheba Encircled by Hegemonic Masculinity Christl M. Maier 4. Women Talking and Women Not Talking: Speaking for(?) in Fiction and Judges 21 Alexiana Fry 5. Filling in the Gaps: Reading Hosea 1—3 with Francine Rivers’ Redeeming Love Kirsi Cobb 6. Will You Accept This Rose? The Magic Circle in the Book of Esther Steed V. Davidson 7. Rape Jokes, Sexual Violence, and Empire in Revelation and This Is The End Meredith J. C. Warren Part II: Rape and Sexual Violence in Ancient and Contemporary Contexts 8. Resistance, Rage, and Re-enactment: Trauma Responses in the Sumerian Rape Narratives Renate Marian van Dijk-Coombes 9. Things Too Indecent to be Recorded: The Soldiers Mocking the Death of Herod Agrippa David Tombs 10. ‘Slaves of Christ’: Rape Culture in the New Testament Jeremy Punt 11. ‘Madoda Sabelani’ and Matthew 2.18: Lamenting Hegemonic Masculinity Dewald Jacobs 12. The Poetics of Redacted Absence as Presence: Kin Eyes Hearing Tamar (2 Samuel 13) Gerald O. West 13. Under Rug Swept: Creating Space to Engage the Reality of Homophobic Hate Crimes in the South African Faith Landscape Charlene van der Walt