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Weapons upon her body : the female heroic in the Hebrew Bible.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, [2012]Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781443845861
  • 1443845868
  • 9781299659681
  • 1299659683
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: Weapons Upon Her Body : The Female Heroic in the Hebrew Bible.DDC classification:
  • 220.92082 23
LOC classification:
  • BS575 .C384 2012
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
TABLE OF CONTENTS; LIST OF FIGURES; PREFACE; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; APPENDIX A; APPENDIX B; APPENDIX C; APPENDIX D; APPENDIX E; APPENDIX F; APPENDIX G; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX
Summary: The biblical stories of Lot's daughters, Tamar, Ruth and Bathsheba, share much in common - singular women who are left to rely upon their own wits to achieve some measure of victory over the men around them. Scholarly interpretation of these women often reduces them to mere stock characters who inform civic notions about Israel, the perennial underdog who, like these women, achieves against great odds. Or, they reflect the trickery and moral ambiguity inherent in their line as ancestresses of ...

The biblical stories of Lot's daughters, Tamar, Ruth and Bathsheba, share much in common - singular women who are left to rely upon their own wits to achieve some measure of victory over the men around them. Scholarly interpretation of these women often reduces them to mere stock characters who inform civic notions about Israel, the perennial underdog who, like these women, achieves against great odds. Or, they reflect the trickery and moral ambiguity inherent in their line as ancestresses of ...

Includes bibliographical references and index.

TABLE OF CONTENTS; LIST OF FIGURES; PREFACE; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; APPENDIX A; APPENDIX B; APPENDIX C; APPENDIX D; APPENDIX E; APPENDIX F; APPENDIX G; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX