ISBN:
9780805211825
,
0805211829
Language:
English
Pages:
xxvii, 446 Seiten
Edition:
First paperback edition
Year of publication:
2002
DDC:
221.9/22/082
Keywords:
Women in the Bible
;
Femmes dans la Bible
;
Women in the Bible
;
Kvinnor i Bibeln
Abstract:
[Using the Bible, this book looks at] the experiences of women in a patriarchal society and the relevance of the Bible to modern life. [The author] examines the stories of Sarah, Rebecca, and Rachel; of Dinah, Tamar, Deborah, Ruth, and Jezebel; of biblical women young and old, married and single, named and anonymous. She considers them individually and collectively, and she uncovers four patterns that emerge from within their lives: woman as victor, as victim, as bridge/wife, and as voice of God.-Dust jacket
Description / Table of Contents:
Victors: Hand that rocks the cradle, the Rivka stories; Saviors of the Exodus; Guardian at the door, Rahab; Warriors by weapon and word, Deborah and Yael; Wise woman of power; Shunammite; Villains, Potiphars' wife, Delilah, and Athaliah -- Victims: Disposable wife; Daddy's daughters; Father-right awry, Jephthah and his daughter; 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 -- Virgins: 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; Royal way; Outsider women, exile and Ezra -- Voice: Oracles of the conquest of Canaan, Rahab and Deborah; Oracles of Saul, Hannah and the witch of Endor; Necromancer at Endor; Abigail; Huldah; Woman as voice -- Reading the women of the Bible: Women of metaphor, metaphors of women; Later adventures of biblical women; Mirrors and voices, reading these stories today
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-435)
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