Marriage by capture in the Book of Judges: an anthropological approach

In this book, Katherine E. Southwood offers a new approach to interpreting Judges 21. Breaking away from traditional interpretations of kingship, feminism, or comparisons with Greek or Roman mythology, she explores the concepts of marriage, ethnicity, rape, and power as means of ethnic preservation...

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1. Verfasser: Southwood, Katherine 1982- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York Cambridge University Press 2017
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Zusammenfassung:In this book, Katherine E. Southwood offers a new approach to interpreting Judges 21. Breaking away from traditional interpretations of kingship, feminism, or comparisons with Greek or Roman mythology, she explores the concepts of marriage, ethnicity, rape, and power as means of ethnic preservation and exclusion. She also exposes the many reasons why marriage by capture occurred during the post-exilic period. Judges 21 served as a warning against compromise - submission to superficial unity between the Israelites and the Benjaminites. Any such unity would result in drastic changes in the character, culture, and values of the ethnic group 'Israel'. The chapter encouraged post-exilic audiences to socially construct those categorised as 'Benjaminites' as foreigners who do not belong within the group, thereby silencing doubts about the merits of unity
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Beschreibung:1 online resource (viii, 272 pages)
ISBN:9781316535523
DOI:10.1017/9781316535523

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