Warrior Dancer Seductress Queen

Author : Susan Ackerman
Publisher : Anchor Bible
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Warrior, Dancer, Seductress, Queen written by Susan Ackerman and published by Anchor Bible. This book was released on 1998 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Warrior, Dancer, Seductress, Queen author Susan Ackerman offers a keen analysis of the main types of women found in Judges, and looks to other biblical books and to ancient Near Eastern literature to demonstrate how these types recur elsewhere. The roles they play significantly impact other events in the Bible, and in the history of Israel.

Author : Esther Fuchs
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498527825
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Feminist Theory and the Bible written by Esther Fuchs and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2016-02-23 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Feminist Theory and the Bible: Interrogating the Sources conceptualizes, contextualizes and maps a new kind of burgeoning scholarship that has grown up in recent decades. This scholarship emerged in the margins of Feminist Studies and Biblical Studies and has yet to find a foothold in either one of these more established contexts. In this book, Esther Fuchs argues that in order to find an enduring, stable place in the academe, this scholarship requires a theoretical perspective. Biblical Studies as a whole has not yet been sufficiently theorized as an academic field, and currently consists of multiple disciplines relying for the most part on traditional scholarly discourses. In this regard, Feminist Biblical Studies is both a departure from and an important supplement to both Feminist Studies and Biblical Studies.

Author : Caroline Vander Stichele
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004130527
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Her Master's Tools? written by Caroline Vander Stichele and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2005 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays, originating in the SBL International Meetings in Berlin (2002) and Cambridge (2003), explores the current reception of historical criticism in feminist biblical studies, pushing the boundaries of past study and opening new vistas for future research. By framing the discussion in the context of the current reevaluation of both historical criticism and feminist exegesis, the contributors highlight the ongoing need to engage methodological issues. In addition, a strong postcolonial emphasis throughout the volume challenges the hegemony of Western biblical interpretation, promoting a format of dialogue and engagement. The collection brings together diverse cultural and geographical perspectives on biblical criticism, with over ten countries represented. Consisting of Western and non-Western perspectives, female and male scholars, junior and senior voices in the field, and a range of feminist scholars situated alongside postcolonial and gender critics, this collection reveals not only the multiplicity of perspectives but also the various transitions in scholarship that have taken place over the past thirty years. Volume contributors include Roland Boer, Athalya Brenner, Ann Graham Brock, Kristin De Troyer, Esther Fuchs, Archie Chi Chung Lee, Joseph Marchal, John Marshall, Hjamil Martínez-Vázquez, Madipoane Masenya (ngwana Mphahlele), Judith McKinlay, Priscilla Geisterfer Nyvlt, Jorunn Økland, Todd Penner, Vernon Robbins, Susanne Scholz, Hanna Stenström, and Caroline Vander Stichele.Paperback edition is available from the Society of Biblical Literature (www.sbl-site.org).

Author : Amelia Devin Freedman
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9780820478289
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book God as an Absent Character in Biblical Hebrew Narrative written by Amelia Devin Freedman and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2005 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the Hebrew Bible as a whole is centered on God and God's relations with Israel, the character of God appears in most biblical stories only indirectly. How are modern readers to make sense of this paradox? God as an Absent Character in Biblical Hebrew Narrative establishes a set of literary methods that both academic and non-academic readers can use to understand the character of God, who is the single most important character in Hebrew Bible narrative and, strangely, absent from the majority of it.

Author : Victor H. Matthews
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521000666
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Judges and Ruth written by Victor H. Matthews and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-01-12 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sample Text

Author : John Day
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0567537838
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Yahweh and the Gods and Goddesses of Canaan written by John Day and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2010-06-15 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This masterly book is the climax of over twenty-five years of study of the impact of Canaanite religion and mythology on ancient Israel and the Old Testament. It is John Day's magnum opus in which he sets forth all his main arguments and conclusions on the subject. The work considers in detail the relationship between Yahweh and the various gods and goddesses of Canaan, including the leading gods El and Baal, the great goddesses (Asherah, Astarte and Anat), astral deities (Sun, Moon and Lucifer), and underworld deities (Mot, Resheph, Molech and the Rephaim). Day assesses both what Yahwism assimilated from these deities and what it came to reject. More generally he discusses the impact of Canaanite polytheism on ancient Israel and how monotheism was eventually achieved.

Author : Ginny Brewer-Boydston
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1666787450
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Good Queen Mothers, Bad Queen Mothers written by Ginny Brewer-Boydston and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2023-07-19 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The regnal formulas in 1-2 Kings list the name of the king’s mother for Judah, signaling an importance of her position and place within the books’ theological presentation. This book investigates the passages in which the king’s mother appears outside of the formulas through narrative criticism and integrates that study with a theological discussion of the formulas in order to demonstrate 1-2 Kings’ view of the queen mother’s place in the monarchy. She held a sanctioned position within the court and had such great influence upon her son that she receives blame as part of the monarchy for the exile.

Author : Frederick E. Greenspahn
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814731872
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hebrew Bible written by Frederick E. Greenspahn and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In April of 2001, the headline in the Los Angeles Times read, “Doubting the Story of the Exodus.” It covered a sermon that had been delivered by the rabbi of a prominent local congregation over the holiday of Passover. In it, he said, “The truth is that virtually every modern archeologist who has investigated the story of the exodus, with very few exceptions, agrees that the way the Bible describes the exodus is not the way it happened, if it happened at all.” This seeming challenge to the biblical story captivated the local public. Yet as the rabbi himself acknowledged, his sermon contained nothing new. The theories that he described had been common knowledge among biblical scholars for over thirty years, though few people outside of the profession know their relevance. New understandings concerning the Bible have not filtered down beyond specialists in university settings. There is a need to communicate this research to a wider public of students and educated readers outside of the academy. This volume seeks to meet this need, with accessible and engaging chapters describing how archeology, theology, ancient studies, literary studies, feminist studies, and other disciplines now understand the Bible.

Author : Alice Ogden Bellis
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN 13 : 1611644003
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Helpmates, Harlots, and Heroes, Second Edition written by Alice Ogden Bellis and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 2007-07-03 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This best-selling book, now revised and updated, shares the work of many feminist biblical scholars who have examined women's stories for several years. These stories are powerful accounts of women in the Old Testament--stories that have profoundly affected how women understand themselves as well as men's perception of them. Here, Alice Bellis shares the research of feminist biblical scholarship during a quarter of a century, which renders a vast amount of refreshing, exciting, sometimes disturbing material.

Author : John L. McLaughlin
Publisher : Paulist Press
ISBN 13 : 1587686511
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What are They Saying about Ancient Israelite Religion? written by John L. McLaughlin and published by Paulist Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores recent scholarship on ancient Israelite religion, focusing on the deities of ancient Israel. The scholarship begins in 1980, although some earlier works are cited.