ABSTRACT
In this concluding chapter of my book, I suggest that the biblical gender-based violence (GBV) incidences perpetrated by textual men and boys on textual women and girls can bring us to reflect on real flesh-and-blood people living in twenty-first-century Botswana. My argument is that the failure to see and resist GBV, either in the Bible or in my context where the Bible is ever-present, is a failure to do what is right and seek justice, particularly for vulnerable women and girls. As a biblical scholar investigating the Bible, which holds such considerable authority in my country, I see a resource for reflecting on the contemporary world, particularly the reasons for and impact of GBV. Ultimately, the Bible, if acknowledged as a mirror that reflects not just textual stories and incidences but more, life in all its rottenness as we know it in the real world, can bring us to reflect on real flesh-and-blood people living in twenty-first century Botswana (and other places where the Bible is respected) and help us to mend our ways.
