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

• Autore: Fontaine Carole R
• 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
• ISBN: 1-281-80303-0; 9786611803032; 0-567-12002-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910782386903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Journal for the study of the Old Testament. . -Supplement series ; ; 356.