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Smooth words : women, Proverbs, and performance in biblical wisdom / / Carole Fontaine



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Autore: Fontaine Carole R Visualizza persona
Titolo: Smooth words : women, Proverbs, and performance in biblical wisdom / / Carole Fontaine Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York, : Sheffield Academic, c2002
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (313 p.)
Disciplina: 223/.06/082
Soggetto topico: Wisdom (Biblical personification)
Women in the Bible
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
Titolo autorizzato: Smooth words  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-281-80303-0
9786611803032
0-567-12002-3
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910816670303321
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Serie: Journal for the study of the Old Testament. . -Supplement series ; ; 356.