TY  - BOOK
AU  - Esler,Philip Francis
TI  - Sex, wives, and warriors: reading Old Testament narrative with its ancient audience 
SN  - 9780227901281
AV  - BS1171.2 .E85 2012eb
U1  - 221.6 23
PY  - 2012///, ©2011
CY  - Cambridge, U.K.
PB  - James Clarke
KW  - Bible
KW  - Old Testament
KW  - Social scientific criticism
KW  - Genesis
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
KW  - Samuel
KW  - Judith
KW  - Old Testament. Apocrypha
KW  - Narration in the Bible
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Biblical Studies
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Judaism
KW  - Sacred Writings
KW  - Christianity
KW  - General
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-383); Front cover; Title page; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. Reading Old Testament Narrative; 2. The Original Context of Old Testament Narrative; Part 1: Wives; 3. Judah and Tamar (Genesis 38); 4. Hannah, Peninnah, and Elkanah (1 Samuel 1-21); Part 2: Warriors; 5. The Madness of Saul, a Warrior-King (1 Samuel 8-31); 6. David and Goliath (1 Samuel 17:1-18:5); 7. David, Banditry, and Kingship (1 Samuel 19:1-2 Samuel 5:5); 8. "By the Hand of a Woman": Judith the Female Warrior; Part 3: Sex; 9. David, Bathsheba, and the Ammonite War (2 Samuel 10-12); 10. Dishonor Avenged: Amnon, Tamar, and Absalom (2 Samuel 13)Epilogue; Bibliography; Back cover
N2  - In Sex, Wives, and Warriors, our understanding of Old Testament narrative is expanded though Phillip Francis Esler's application of an intercultural reading of the texts, focusing on the question: ""What would ancient readers have understood from these stories?"" This approach reveals previously undiscovered levels of meaning in the Old Testament which readers all too often fail to place in its original cultural and historical context. Esler draws on a wide range of disciplines, and in particular brings the techniques and insights of the social sciences to bear in his analysis. Not only is this
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