Collins, Sandra Ladick.

Weapons Upon Her Body the Female Heroic in the Hebrew Bible. [electronic resource] : - Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2012. - 1 online resource (225 p.)

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.

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 ...

9781443845861 (electronic bk.) 1443845868 (electronic bk.)


Christian women--Religious life.
Religion.
Women in the Bible--Biography.
Women in the bible.
Women in the Bible.
RELIGION / Biblical Biography / General


Electronic books.

BS575 .C384 2012

220.92082