A feminist companion to Judges / / edited by Athalya Brenner

• Pubblicazione: Sheffield, England : , : Sheffield Academic Press, , [1993]; ©1993
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (243 p.)
• Disciplina: 222.320830542
• Persona (resp. second.): Brenner-IdanAthalya
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Abbreviations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART I: IN GENERAL: WOMEN AND [HI]STORY; A Spectrum of Female Characters; Is Judges a Woman's Satire on Men who Play God?; The Book of Judges: Paradigm and Deviation in Images of Women; Valorized or Vilified? The Women of Judges in Midrashic Sources; PART II: ON TEXT AUTHORITY IN JUDGES 4-5; A Triangle and a Rhombus in Narrative Structure: A Proposed Integrative Reading of Judges 4 and 5; Mothers and a Mediator in the Song of Deborah; PART III: ON RELATIONAL WOMEN: A DAUGHTER ; Marginalization, Ambiguity, Silencing: The Story of Jephthah's DaughterOn Judges 11; PART IV: ON RELATIONAL WOMEN: A MOTHER AND WIFE; 'Manoah Promptly Followed his Wife' (Judges 13.11): On the Place of the Woman in Birth Narratives; Samson's Mother: An Unnamed Protagonist; PART V: ON RELATIONAL WOMEN: A WIFE; Toward a Womanist Hermeneutic: A Reading of Judges 19-21; Author of a Crime; A Body of Writing: Judges 19; Afterword; Bibliography
• Sommario/riassunto: The book of Judges is replete with female figurations, and has, therefore, received a lot of attention from feminist critics. This volume of essays, however, changes the motivation behind this apparent centrality of female figures, claiming that in fact strong androcentric premises underlie the texts. The overall theme of this sparkling collection focusses on wives, daughters and mothers, and their relationships. An introductory section surveys the women of Judges, investigation satire, paradigm and deviation and the midrashic sources; Brenner and Van Dyck investigate the story and song of Deb
• Titolo autorizzato: A feminist companion to Judges
• ISBN: 1-283-19989-0; 9786613199898; 0-567-47358-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910826666803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Feminist companion to the Bible ; ; 4.