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Record Nr.

UNINA9910817498103321

Autore

Rosen Norma

Titolo

Biblical women unbound : counter-tales / / Norma Rosen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia, : Jewish Publication Society, 2001, c1996

ISBN

0-8276-0988-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (239 p.)

Disciplina

296.19

Soggetti

Women in the Bible

Women in rabbinical literature

Midrash - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Half-Title -- Also by Norma Rosen -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- A Personal Note -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Midrash and the Bible -- What I Want Midrash to Do -- Narrative Method in Classical Midrash -- Narrative Method and the Uses of Story -- Mldrash and Fiction -- Midrash and Theology -- Mothers and Sisters -- Eve -- All about Eve: The Eternal Female through the Ages -- Sarah -- The Unbinding of Sarah -- Rebekah -- Rebekah and Isaac: A Marriage Made in Heaven -- Rachel and Leah -- Rachel and Leah: A Thousand and One Nights of Love -- Sisters and Daughters -- Miriam -- The Seven Days of Miriam -- Tamar -- Tamar: The Widow's Wager -- Lot's Daughter -- Daughter-Wives of Lot: All Glorious Is the King's Daughter Within (but that shouldn't stop you from thrusting her out-of-doors when necessary): A Children's Play -- Daughters, Wives, Warriors -- Deborah -- Deborah: A Prophet of Air -- Bitiah -- Bitiah: Memoir of a 'lYrant's Daughter (as interviewed in the Jewish Press) -- Esther -- After Esther -- Contemporary Women Look at Biblical Women -- Ruth and Naomi -- Dialogues on Devotion.