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Record Nr.

UNINA9910782386903321

Autore

Fontaine Carole R

Titolo

Smooth words [[electronic resource] ] : women, Proverbs, and performance in biblical wisdom / / Carole Fontaine

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Sheffield Academic, c2002

ISBN

1-281-80303-0

9786611803032

0-567-12002-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (313 p.)

Collana

Journal for the study of the Old Testament. Supplement series ; ; 356

Disciplina

223/.06/082

Soggetti

Wisdom (Biblical personification)

Women in the Bible

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographic references (p. [272]-285) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; To the Reader; Chapter 1 W/WISDOM THE SlGNIFIER; Chapter 2 TEXTUAL WOMEN: THE SOCIAL ROLES OF WOMEN IN THE PRIVATE, PUBLIC AND COSMIC DOMAINS; Chapter 3 WOMEN USING WISDOM: PERFORMING THE TRADITION; Chapter 4 THE WISDOM OF NEWTONS; Chapter 5 CONCLUDING SEMI-SCIENTIFIC POSTSCRIPT; Bibliography; Index of Proverbs and Instructions; Index of References; Index of Authors

Sommario/riassunto

This book explores the social roles of women as portrayed within the book of Proverbs, as well as the character archetypes and patriarchal ideologies which undergird the sages' portrayal. Using feminist folklore methodologies and performance studies, the author explores an alternative paradigm for understanding women's relationship to wisdom traditions in the ancient near east, using parallel texts, later midrash and extrabiblical re-presentations of biblical women associated with wisdom. The author demonstrates that women were culturally authorized 'performers' of the family based wisdom trad