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Reading the women of the Bible / Tikva Frymer-Kensky.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Schocken Books, 2002Description: xxvii, 446 pages ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0805241213
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 221.9/22/082 21
LOC classification:
  • BS575 .F78 2002
Contents:
Part I. Victors -- The hand that rocks the cradle: the Rivka stories -- Saviors of the Exodus -- The guardian at the door: Rahab -- Warriors by weapon and word: Deborah and Yael -- A wise woman of power -- The Shunammite -- Villains: Potiphar's wife, Delilah, and Athaliah -- Part II. Victims -- The disposable wife -- Daddy's daughters -- Father-right awry: Jephthat and his daughter -- The bad old days: concubine and chaos -- Kings to the rescue? -- "Off with his head": David, Uriah, and Bathsheba -- Trauma and tragedy: the betrayals of Tamar -- Power and person: a problem of political life -- Part III. Virgins -- The Dinah affair -- To the barricades: views against the other -- Queen Jezebel, or Deuteronomy's worst nightmare -- Cozbi -- Hagar, my other, my self -- Royal origins: Ruth on the royal way -- Royal origins: the Moabite -- Royal origins: Tamar -- The royal way -- Outsider women: exile and Ezra -- Part IV. Voice -- Oracles of the conquest of Canaan: Rahab and Deborah -- Oracles of Saul: Hannah and the witch of Endor -- The necromancer at Endor -- Abigail -- Huldah -- Woman as voice -- Part V. Reading the Women of the Bible -- Women of metaphor, metaphors of women -- The later adventures of biblical women -- Mirrors and voices: reading these stories today.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Print book for loan Wentz Memorial Branch Philadelphia General Collection BS575 .F78 2002 1 Available 31794003172914
Print book for loan Wentz Memorial Branch Gettysburg General Collection (Lower Level) BS575 .F78 2002 Available 35898001223201
Print book for loan Wentz Memorial Branch Gettysburg General Collection (Lower Level) BS575 .F78 2002 1 Available 31826003528933

Includes bibliographical references (pages [355]-435) and index.

Part I. Victors -- The hand that rocks the cradle: the Rivka stories -- Saviors of the Exodus -- The guardian at the door: Rahab -- Warriors by weapon and word: Deborah and Yael -- A wise woman of power -- The Shunammite -- Villains: Potiphar's wife, Delilah, and Athaliah -- Part II. Victims -- The disposable wife -- Daddy's daughters -- Father-right awry: Jephthat and his daughter -- The bad old days: concubine and chaos -- Kings to the rescue? -- "Off with his head": David, Uriah, and Bathsheba -- Trauma and tragedy: the betrayals of Tamar -- Power and person: a problem of political life -- Part III. Virgins -- The Dinah affair -- To the barricades: views against the other -- Queen Jezebel, or Deuteronomy's worst nightmare -- Cozbi -- Hagar, my other, my self -- Royal origins: Ruth on the royal way -- Royal origins: the Moabite -- Royal origins: Tamar -- The royal way -- Outsider women: exile and Ezra -- Part IV. Voice -- Oracles of the conquest of Canaan: Rahab and Deborah -- Oracles of Saul: Hannah and the witch of Endor -- The necromancer at Endor -- Abigail -- Huldah -- Woman as voice -- Part V. Reading the Women of the Bible -- Women of metaphor, metaphors of women -- The later adventures of biblical women -- Mirrors and voices: reading these stories today.

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