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Record Nr.

UNINA9910453826503321

Autore

Camp Claudia V. <1951->

Titolo

Wise, strange, and holy [[electronic resource] ] : the strange woman and the making of the Bible / / Claudia V. Camp

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Sheffield, England, : Sheffield Academic Press, c2000

ISBN

1-281-84170-6

9786611841706

0-567-06350-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (373 p.)

Collana

Gender, culture, theory ; ; 9

Journal for the study of the Old Testament. Supplement series ; ; 320

Disciplina

221.6/4

Soggetti

Women in the Bible

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [345]-359) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; Abbreviations; Introduction; Part I: WOMAN WISDOM AND THE STRANGE WOMAN IN THE BOOK OF PROVERBS; Chapter 1 THE STRANGE WOMAN OF PROVERBS; Chapter 2 WISE AND STRANGE: WOMAN AS TRICKSTER IN PROVERBS; Part II: READING BIBLICAL NARRATIVE AS WISE AND STRANGE; Chapter 3 RIDDLERS, TRICKSTERS AND STRANGE WOMEN IN THE SAMSON STORY; Chapter 4 READING SOLOMON AS A WOMAN; Part III: SISTER, BROTHER, OTHER: THE ISRAELITE WOMAN ESTRANGED; Chapter 5 OF LINEAGES AND LEVITES, SISTERS AND STRANGERS: CONSTRUCTING PRIESTLY BOUNDARIES IN THE POSTEXILIC PERIOD

Chapter 6 THE (E)STRANGE(D) WOMAN IN THE WILDERNESS: MIRIAM AMONG THE PRIESTSChapter 7 THE (E)STRANGE(D) WOMAN IN THE LAND: SOJOURNING WITH DINAH; CONCLUSION; Select Bibliography; Index of References; Index of Authors; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; V; W

Sommario/riassunto

The relationship of the Strange Woman and Woman Wisdom, separate but inseparable in Proverbs 1-9, is the book's analytic starting point, becoming a hermeneutical lens for viewing other texts of strangeness-of gender, ethnicity, sexuality, and cultic activity. Wisdom and



strangeness mark the narratives of Samson and Solomon, while priestly literature sets strangeness against holiness. Miriam and Dinah, sisters of cultic eponyms Aaron and Levi, are Israelite women defiled or unclean, made strange. Priestly and wisdom constructions of gendered strangeness intersect, illuminating the ideologies of