Biblical Parallels Index – Bereshit 34/0
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Biblical Parallels Index – Bereshit 34
Abuse of Power
Tools
- Concordance – If one uses the advanced concordance, and inputs "ראה" and "לקח" into the first two fields, one sees that there are several stories in Tanakh where "seeing" a woman leads to "forcefully taking" her: the story of the "sons of God" taking "the daughters of man" (Bereshit 6), the story of Paroh taking Sarah (Bereshit 12), and the story of Shekhem's rape of Dinah (Bereshit 34). A comparison of the stories suggests that in each case an imbalance of power enables forced sexual relations.
