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9780805211825

Reading the Women of the Bible A New Interpretation of Their Stories

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  • ISBN13:

    9780805211825

  • ISBN10:

    0805211829

  • Edition: Reprint
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2004-04-06
  • Publisher: Schocken

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Summary

This dramatically different way of hearing the voices of the women of the Bible and of interpreting their stories is written by the highly regarded author of "In the Wake of the Goddesses."

Author Biography

TIKVA FRYMER-KENSKY is a professor of Hebrew Bible at the Divinity School at the University of Chicago.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction xiii
Part I. Victors
The Hand That Rocks the Cradle: The Rivka Stories
5(19)
Saviors of the Exodus
24(10)
The Guardian at the Door: Rahab
34(11)
Warriors by Weapon and Word: Deborah and Yael
45(13)
A Wise Woman of Power
58(6)
The Shunammite
64(10)
Villains: Potiphar's Wife, Delilah, and Athaliah
74(19)
Part II. Victims
The Disposable Wife
93(6)
Daddy's Daughters
99(3)
Father-right Awry: Jephthah and His Daughter
102(16)
The Bad Old Days: Concubine and Chaos
118(21)
Kings to the Rescue?
139(4)
"Off with His Head": David, Uriah, and Bathsheba
143(14)
Trauma and Tragedy: The Betrayals of Tamar
157(13)
Power and Person: A Problem of Political Life
170(9)
Part III. Virgins
The Dinah Affair
179
To the Barricades: Views Against the Other
149(60)
Queen Jezebel, or Deuteronomy's Worst Nightmare
209(6)
Cozbi
215(10)
Hagar, My Other, My Self
225(13)
Royal Origins: Ruth on the Royal Way
238(19)
Royal Origins: The Moabite
257(7)
Royal Origins: Tamar
264(14)
The Royal Way
278(5)
Outsider Women: Exile and Ezra
283(14)
Part IV Voice
Oracles of the Conquest of Canaan: Rahab and Deborah
297(4)
Oracles of Saul: Hannah and the Witch of Endor
301(9)
The Necromancer at Endor
310(5)
Abigail
315(9)
Huldah
324(3)
Woman as Voice
327(6)
Part V Reading the Women of the Bible
Women of Metaphor, Metaphors of Women
333(6)
The Later Adventures of Biblical Women
339(11)
Mirrors and Voices: Reading These Stories Today
350(5)
Notes 355(82)
Index 437

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