The Cry of Tamar: Violence Against Woman and the Church’s Response
Mariel Benet
October 10,2015 The text begins reporting on the family relationships of the people who are involved. After the departure qualifies Tamar aesthetically. She's pretty. It is the famous sister of Absalom, Amnon, the other brother (half brother) desires.
The desire. This seems to be one of the verses that move this story. The dictionary defines "desire", "aim for what has not, to want someone or something for a particular purpose. Having desire or intention: to want, to desire, ambition ". Desire for power, desire for, desire to eat ... these are the movements and dynamic text.
Tamar (the object of desire), Amnon (the subject of desire) and Absalom (the obstacle, to take revenge). Here, …show more content…
And as such, it is not only the man who holds power over the victim. Power, as relationship is dynamic and moving. Victim status of women is given, as it is she who suffers violence. Nevertheless, in addressing the situation and the context of violence seeks an approach that make the woman victim, you take it as an object, preventing its status as a subject. An approach that only sees women as victims makes it a passive, unable to decide and give direction to his life and to establish resistance. But if the discussion moved to the context and scope of the powers in office in violent relationships, we can put in the hands of women themselves the capacity to make decisions that lead to out of the situation of violence.
Tamar is not a helpless victim, who lowers his head and enduring threats and actual violence. She defends and argued to save face. She exercises power. What kind of power? ¿Religious, knowledge of healing, healing Amnon need? What they need to restore? Does your sexual strength? Or they are too uncomfortable for its dazzling, beautiful presence and he is the heir of the king who can eat everything ... even the hand of the virgin daughter of the
Mariel Benet
October 10,2015 The text begins reporting on the family relationships of the people who are involved. After the departure qualifies Tamar aesthetically. She's pretty. It is the famous sister of Absalom, Amnon, the other brother (half brother) desires.
The desire. This seems to be one of the verses that move this story. The dictionary defines "desire", "aim for what has not, to want someone or something for a particular purpose. Having desire or intention: to want, to desire, ambition ". Desire for power, desire for, desire to eat ... these are the movements and dynamic text.
Tamar (the object of desire), Amnon (the subject of desire) and Absalom (the obstacle, to take revenge). Here, …show more content…
And as such, it is not only the man who holds power over the victim. Power, as relationship is dynamic and moving. Victim status of women is given, as it is she who suffers violence. Nevertheless, in addressing the situation and the context of violence seeks an approach that make the woman victim, you take it as an object, preventing its status as a subject. An approach that only sees women as victims makes it a passive, unable to decide and give direction to his life and to establish resistance. But if the discussion moved to the context and scope of the powers in office in violent relationships, we can put in the hands of women themselves the capacity to make decisions that lead to out of the situation of violence.
Tamar is not a helpless victim, who lowers his head and enduring threats and actual violence. She defends and argued to save face. She exercises power. What kind of power? ¿Religious, knowledge of healing, healing Amnon need? What they need to restore? Does your sexual strength? Or they are too uncomfortable for its dazzling, beautiful presence and he is the heir of the king who can eat everything ... even the hand of the virgin daughter of the