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050 00 $aBS575$b.K58 2003
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100 1 $aKlein, Lillian R.$q(Lillian Rae)
245 10 $aFrom Deborah to Esther :$bsexual politics in the Hebrew Bible /$cLillian R. Klein.
246 30 $aDeborah to Esther
260 $aMinneapolis, MN :$bFortress Press,$cc2003.
300 $axi, 154 p. ;$c22 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 121-141) and indexes.
505 0 $aWives and daughters in the Book of Judges -- Deborah and Jael : audacious female role models? -- Hannah : marginalized victim and social redeemer -- Bathsheba revealed -- Job and the womb -- Michal, the barren wife -- Honor and shame in the Book of Esther.
520 $aThe Hebrew Bible's fascinating narratives about women have occasioned some of the most important biblical scholarship of the last generation. Lillian Klein contributes to that wealth with her absorbing studies of key figures in the narrative material: Deborah, Jephtha's daughter, Delilah, Jael, the whore of Gaza, Kaleb's daughter Achsah, Hannah, Esther, the wife of Job, David's wife Michal, and Bathsheba. With a marvelous eye for the telling detail {u2013} or its absence {u2013} Klein examines the biblical portraits, often unfortunately brief, of these women and the dynamics of gender, power, and honor at work in their stories. A remarkably lucid and careful scholar, Klein has surfaced the underlying and ironic ideals of womanhood in a society that both honored and marginalized women in stories of seduction and rivalry, deviation and obedience, public shame and private power.
630 00 $aBible.$pOld Testament$xFeminist criticism.
630 00 $aBible.$pOld Testament$xCriticism, interpretation, etc.
650 0 $aWomen in the Bible.
655 7 $aCriticism, interpretation, etc.$2fast
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