Hardly Happily Ever After: Trafficking of Girls in the Hebrew Bible
This article examines elements in the stories of Hagar (Gen. 16:1–3), Abishag (1 Kgs. 1:1–4), Esther (Esth. 2:1–4), and the unnamed Israelite slave girl (2 Kgs. 5:1–4) through the lens of human trafficking, specifically trafficking girls. First, I will argue that our tendency to understand Hagar, Ab...
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| Type de support: | Électronique Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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Brill
2020
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Biblical interpretation
Année: 2020, Volume: 28, Numéro: 5, Pages: 540-556 |
| Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés: | B
Trafic d'êtres humains
/ Traite des femmes
/ Esclaves
/ Traumatisme
/ Esclave
/ Hagar, Personnage biblique
/ Abischag, Personnage biblique
/ Ester, Personnage biblique
/ Bibel. Genesis 3,1-4,16
/ Bibel. Könige 1. 1,1-4
/ Bibel. Ester 2
/ Bibel. Könige 1. 2,5
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| Classifications IxTheo: | FD Théologie contextuelle HB Ancien Testament NCA Éthique |
| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
Israelite slave girl
B Esther B Traumatisme B Hagar B Human Trafficking B Abishag |
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| Résumé: | This article examines elements in the stories of Hagar (Gen. 16:1–3), Abishag (1 Kgs. 1:1–4), Esther (Esth. 2:1–4), and the unnamed Israelite slave girl (2 Kgs. 5:1–4) through the lens of human trafficking, specifically trafficking girls. First, I will argue that our tendency to understand Hagar, Abishag, and Esther as women, not girls, is undermined by the vocabulary used to describe them, as well as other contextual clues. I will then outline the United Nations’ criteria for defining the transport of a person as human trafficking. Most of the article provides narrative analyses of the four texts cited above. By identifying elements of dislocation, trauma, and exploitation in the stories of Hagar, Abishag, Esther, and the Israelite slave girl, I suggest that parts of their stories meet the criteria to fulfill the pattern of human trafficking. This childist interpretation further maintains that these portrayals of girls being trafficked have multiple troubling commonalities, with each other and with human trafficking today. |
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| ISSN: | 1568-5152 |
| Contient: | Enthalten in: Biblical interpretation
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15685152-2805A002 |