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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Coherence of Politics and the Politics of Coherence | |
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| Two Views of the Book of Judges | |
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| How History Constructs Itself | |
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| The Construction of a Different History | |
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| The Coherence of Dissymmetry | |
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| Heroes of Might and Women of Death | |
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| Lethal Ladies | |
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| Gender, Sex, and Dissymmetry | |
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| Other Female Characters | |
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| The Language of Power | |
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| Virginity and Entanglement | |
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| Bath-Jephthah: The Daughter's Gift | |
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| Negation and Denial of Womanhood | |
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| Freud Entangled Love at First Sight | |
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| Bath's Survival | |
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| Virginity Scattered | |
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| Paradoxes of Virginity | |
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| Nonvirginal Virgins, Virginal | |
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| Spouses Between Virgin and Wife: Caught Between Men | |
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| Violence and the Sacred: Contribution to the Ethnography of Fatherhood | |
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| The Raw and the Cooked In the Name of the Law: Proper Sacrifice | |
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| Manoah's Failed Fatherhood In the Name of the Vow: Improper Sacrifice | |
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| Bath-Jephthah versus Ben-Abraham: A Case for Separation | |
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| Dreaming Fire: Violence without the Sacred | |
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| The Body Became Voice, or the Reinforcement of Culture | |
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| The Scandal of the Speaking Body: From Speech-act to Body Language | |
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| Speech-acts: The Word Become Flesh | |
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| Samson's Riddle: The Word Became Woman | |
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| The Riddle as Vow and the Vow as Riddle | |
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| The Daughter's Body Language as a Challenge to Fatherhood | |
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| The Mouth of the S/Word | |
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| The Architecture of Unhomeliness | |
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| Oppositions Limits | |
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| Dialectic Unhomeliness Revisited | |
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| The Empty House Is Haunted | |
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| The Displacement of the Mother | |
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| Explicit Mothers: Jephthah's and Abimelech's, Samson's and Micah's | |
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| Explicit Mothers: Sisera's and Israel's | |
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| Displaced Mothers: Yael | |
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| Displaced Mothers: The Woman-with-the-Millstone | |
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| Displaced Mothers: Delilah Mothering, Murdering, Making | |
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| Love: Yael Clytemnestra's Absence | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The I, the Eye, and Objectification | |
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| The Incoherence of Coherence Once Upon a Time | |
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| Once More: Body Language | |
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| A Model for Narratological Analysis | |
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| Notes on Language | |
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| Notes | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |