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Weapons Upon Her Body [electronic resource] : the Female Heroic in the Hebrew Bible.

By: Publication details: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2012.Description: 1 online resource (225 p.)ISBN:
  • 9781443845861 (electronic bk.)
  • 1443845868 (electronic bk.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Weapons Upon Her Body : The Female Heroic in the Hebrew BibleDDC classification:
  • 220.92082
LOC classification:
  • BS575 .C384 2012
Online resources:
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 ...
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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 ...

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