A Feminist companion to Judges /
"The book of Judges is replete with female figurations, and has, therefore, received a lot of attention from feminist critics. This volume of essays, however, changes the motivation behind this apparent centrality of female figures, claiming that in fact strong androcentric premises underlie th...
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Sheffield, England :
JSOT Press, an imprint of Sheffield Academic Press Ltd,
[1993]
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| Series: | Feminist companion to the Bible ;
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Athalya Brenner
- A spectrum of female characters in the book of Judges / Lillian R. Klein
- Is Judges a woman's satire of men who play God? / Adrien Janis Bledstein
- The book of Judges : paradigm and deviation in images of women / Lillian R. Klein
- Valorized or vilified? : the women of Judges in midrashic sources / Leila Leah Bronner
- A triangle and a rhombus in narrative structure : a proposed integrative reading of Judges 4 and 5 / Athalya Brenner
- Mothers and a mediator in the Song of Deborah / Fokkelien van Dijk-Hemmes
- Marginalization, ambiguity, silencing : the story of Jephthah's daughter / Esther Fuchs
- On Judges 11 / J. Cheryl Exum
- M̀anoah promptly followed his wifeʹ (Judges 13.11) : on the place of the woman in birth narratives / Yairah Amit
- Samson's mother : an unnamed protagonist / Adele Reinhartz
- Toward a womanist hermeneutic : a reading of Judges 19-21 / Koala Jones-Warsaw
- Author of a crime / Peggy Kamuf
- A body of writing : Judges 19 / Mieke Bal
- Afterword / Athalya Brenner.
