Reading the women of the Bible / Tikva Frymer-Kensky.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : Schocken Books, 2002Description: xxvii, 446 pages ; 25 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0805241213
- 221.9/22/082 21
- BS575 .F78 2002
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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.