Abigail, wife of David, and other ancient Oriental women
By: edited by Daniel Bodi
Series: Hebrew Bible monographs -- 60; Hebrew Bible monographs -- 60.
Publisher: Sheffield Phoenix Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Sheffield
Language: eng
Number of pages: 127
ISBN-13: 9781909697041
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Criticism, interpretation; Bible
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 107-120) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: The Residency of Abigail in 1 Samuel 25 and the connection between David and Abraham  -- André Lemaire; title: Remarriage of a princess and the 'foreign policy' of the King of Mari in the upper Habur region in the eighteenth century BCE  -- Michaël Guichard; title: David as an 'Apiru in 1 Samuel 25 and the pattern of seizing power in the ancient Near East  -- Daniel Bodi; title: Women and hospitality customs in the ancient Near East  -- Jean-Jacques Glassner; title: Story of David, Nabal and Abigail (1 Samuel 25) : a literary study of wordplay and names, analogies, and socially structured opposites  -- Moshe Garsiel; title: Was Abigail a scarlet woman? : a point of Rabbinic exegesis in light of comparative material  -- Daniel Bodi; title: Anat and the warriors : gender definition and the ambivalence of the feminine in Ugaritic mythology -- Jean-Marie Husser.