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

Name: Reading the Women of the Bible A New Interpretation of Their Stories
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ISBN: 9780805211825

ISBN-10: 0805211829

ISBN-13: 9780805211825

Edition: 2002

Authors: Tikva Frymer-Kensky

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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."

Book details

List price: $20.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 4/6/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 480
Size: 5.28" wide x 7.95" long x 1.34" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Victors


The Hand That Rocks the Cradle: The Rivka Stories


Saviors of the Exodus


The Guardian at the Door: Rahab


Warriors by Weapon and Word: Deborah and Yael


A Wise Woman of Power


The Shunammite


Villains: Potiphar's Wife, Delilah, and Athaliah



Victims


The Disposable Wife


Daddy's Daughters


Father-right Awry: Jephthah and His Daughter


The Bad Old Days: Concubine and Chaos


Kings to the Rescue?


"Off with His Head": David, Uriah, and Bathsheba


Trauma and Tragedy: The Betrayals of Tamar


Power and Person: A Problem of Political Life



Virgins


The Dinah Affair


To the Barricades: Views Against the Other


Queen Jezebel, or Deuteronomy's Worst Nightmare


Cozbi


Hagar, My Other, My Self


Royal Origins: Ruth on the Royal Way


Royal Origins: The Moabite


Royal Origins: Tamar


The Royal Way


Outsider Women: Exile and Ezra



Voice


Orades of the Conquest of Canaan: Rahab and Deborah


Oracles of Saul: Hannah and the Witch of Endor


The Necromancer at Endor


Abigail


Huldah


Woman as Voice



Reading the Women of the Bible


Women of Metaphor, Metaphors of Women


The Later Adventures of Biblical Women


Mirrors and Voices: Reading These Stories Today


Notes


Index