Weapons upon her body
Subtitle: the female heroic in the Hebrew bible
By: by Sandra Ladick Collins
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Language: eng
Number of pages: 215
ISBN-13: 9781443839808
Subjects: Women in the Bible; Frau; Altes Testament; Geschlechterrolle; Narrativität
Description: "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 the House of David ... Using methods from biblical study as well as folklore, this study identifies biblical women motivated by self-interest coupled with decption and an incidence of the 'bedtrick, ' an instance of sexual trickery that challenges the text's power and gender dynamics."--Cover, p. [4].
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-212) and index.
Table of contents: title: Historiography in the Hebrew Bible --; title: Biblical women: Lot's daughter, Tamar, Ruth and Bathsheba --; title: Defining the female hero --; title: Reading the stories together --; title: Conclusion: Lot's daughters, Tamar, Ruth and Bathsheba, and the weapons upon their bodies -- -- Appendix A.; title: Male and female hero traits (Raglan/Jezewski) -- -- Appendix B.; title: The hero (Vladimir Propp) -- -- Appendix C.; title: Hero pattern (J. Von Hahn) -- -- Appendix D.; title: Birth of the hero (Otto Rank) -- -- Appendix E.; title: The hero's biography (Heda Jason) -- -- Appendix F.; title: The persecuted heroine (Ilana Dan) -- -- Appendix G.; title: Female biblical hero trait list (Collins).