TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2023//
TI  - Athanasius Pulled Apart: Heresiology and the (Dis)membered (Fe)male Body
JO  - Harvard theological review
A1  - Barry, Jennifer
SP  - ePub
EP  - ePub
VL  - ePub
IS  - ePub
N2  - In this article, I engage Athanasius of Alexandria's invocation of the infamous dismemberment of the unnamed woman found in Judg 19. By the fourth century, this story of gang rape--along with other preserved stories of sexual violence--found in Judges, were scattered throughout early Christian literature. Judges 19 holds a particularly troubling history in the late ancient context. The story of the rape and dismemberment of the unnamed woman in Judg 19 gave life to another story and typified a style of writing that I characterize in the article as a heresiology. The spectacle of Judges, along with other gruesome deaths of women, was one way in which heresiological discourse frames rhetorical arguments for writers like Athanasius of Alexandria. Here, I purposely draw our attention to how Athanasian orthodoxy became reliant on gender-based violence.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0017-8160
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0017816023000275
ID  - ref1
ER  -