A Feminist companion to Judges:
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Sheffield, England Sheffield Academic Press © 1993
Schriftenreihe:Feminist companion to the Bible 4
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Beschreibung:Includes contributions by Lillian R. Klein, et al. - Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002
Includes bibliographical references (pages 236-242)
Introduction / Athalya Brenner -- A spectrum of female characters in the book of Judges / Lillian R. Klein -- Is Judges a woman's satire of men who play God? / Adrien Janis Bledstein -- The book of Judges : paradigm and deviation in images of women / Lillian R. Klein -- Valorized or vilified? : the women of Judges in midrashic sources / Leila Leah Bronner -- A triangle and a rhombus in narrative structure : a proposed integrative reading of Judges 4 and 5 / Athalya Brenner -- Mothers and a mediator in the Song of Deborah / Fokkelien van Dijk-Hemmes -- Marginalization, ambiguity, silencing : the story of Jephthah's daughter / Esther Fuchs -- On Judges 11 / J. Cheryl Exum -- M̀anoah promptly followed his wifeʹ (Judges 13.11) : on the place of the woman in birth narratives / Yairah Amit -- Samson's mother : an unnamed protagonist / Adele Reinhartz -- Toward a womanist hermeneutic : a reading of Judges 19-21 / Koala Jones-Warsaw -- Author of a crime / Peggy Kamuf -- A body of writing : Judges 19 / Mieke Bal -- Afterword / Athalya Brenner
The book of Judges is replete with female figurations, and has, therefore, received a lot of attention from feminist critics. This volume of essays, however, changes the motivation behind this apparent centrality of female figures, claiming that in fact strong androcentric premises underlie the texts. The overall theme of this sparkling collection focusses on wives, daughters and mothers, and their relationships. An introductory section surveys the women of Judges, investigation satire, paradigm and deviation and the midrashic sources; Brenner and Van Dyck investigate the story and song of Deb
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ISBN:9780567473585
0567473589
1283199890
9781283199896
1850754624
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