22/01/2014 Bad Girls and Dirty Stories: Reading Prostitution Legends in the Hebrew Bible

Published: 17 October 2014

Bad Girls and Dirty Stories: Reading Prostitution Legends in the Hebrew Bible

Dr Sarah Nicholson
(Glasgow University)

This paper is an intertextual exploration of four stories (Genesis 19, Genesis 38, Judges 19 and Ruth) and interrogates these as retellings of tales of prostitution and sexual violence using the lens of Lyotard’s concept of the différend.


First published: 17 October 2014