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The commonalities between the assaults on Dinah (Genesis 34), The Consort (Judges 19) and Tamar (2 Samuel) are depressing but at least this is a framework we can address and push back against when talking about sexual assault towards women in the old testament and the imposed silencing of victims society reinforces

The Marriage Metaphor with god and Israelites compared to gods proposed victimization of the Whore of Babylon in the abstract is also super illuminating because he is presumably ready to smite all of the non Israelite nations

The numbers 16 section about Moses and Aaron leading the Israelites and god choosing to send Korah and his dissidents into the underworld was very striking.

And not just because we immediately get that juxtaposed with the Leviticus 18 section about the Canaanites being unworthy of their land and god having the land literally throw them out to make way for the Israelites

The cosmic violence and gods favor portions aren’t my strong suit so it was insightful to dig into gods wrath like striking down King Herod

It is definitely helpful to be able to pull the Canaanite and Flood sections selected because they do represent both gods favor hurting marginalized people but also the covenant in the rainbow post flood