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The Poor Man's Ewe Lamb (2 Sam 12:1-4) in Intersectional, Interspecies Perspective
Ist Teil von
Vetus Testamentum, 2023-08, Vol.73 (3), p.360-386
Ort / Verlag
Leiden | Boston: Brill
Erscheinungsjahr
2023
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Abstract
Nathan tells David a story about a rich man who takes and kills a poor man's lamb (2 Sam 12:1-4). This, it turns out, is figurative for David's own deeds of killing Uriah the Hittite and taking his wife. The story and its application suggest the intersecting power dynamics between groups: rich and poor, male and female, native and foreigner-and, crucially, human and nonhuman. This article argues that intersectional analysis should include an interspecies dimension, and explores these dynamics at work through various mechanisms of relation. Low status human groups are connected with nonhumans through animalisation, and are thereby delegitimised. Nonhuman animals and animalised humans are positioned as objects within mechanisms of domination, such as exploitation, exchange, and semiosis. The relationship between the poor man and lamb, though, offers another possibility: alliance. Care can be extended across species lines, with implications for intergroup relations throughout the intersectional web.