Pornoprophetics Revisited: Some Additional Reflections

Abstract

The divine-husband/erring-human-wife metaphor—to be found in Hosea, Jeremiah, Ezekiel and other 'prophetic' passages—contains specific images of gendered relations and gendered sexuality. While many scholars tend to mimmize the anti- woman bias of such passages, feminist scholars have recently highlighted it. This contribution to an on-going debate is an examination of the metaphor and its language of exposure, violence and punishment to expose the religious propaganda and pornography within.