Comedy and feminist interpretation of the Hebrew Bible : a subversive collaboration /
Exploring the Hebrew Bible for evidence of comedy, this volume further asks how reading the Hebrew Bible through a comic 'lens' might positively inform feminist interpretation. The exploration is conducted with a number of Hebrew Bible narratives, all of which prominently involve female ch...
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Oxford University Press,
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Publisher Address: | Oxford : |
Publication Dates: | 2012. |
Literature type: | eBook |
Language: | English |
Edition: | First edition. |
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Oxford theological monographs
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http://www.iresearchbook.cn/f/ebook/detail?id=6e680af9f5f14afc902dbcdc3ea8efe4 |
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Exploring the Hebrew Bible for evidence of comedy, this volume further asks how reading the Hebrew Bible through a comic 'lens' might positively inform feminist interpretation. The exploration is conducted with a number of Hebrew Bible narratives, all of which prominently involve female characters. |
Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (285 pages). |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
ISBN: |
9780191630767 9780199656776 |
Index Number: | BS680 |
CLC: | B971.1 |
Contents: | 1. An introduction to comedy -- 2. Trickster matriarchs: Lot's daughters, Rebekah, Leah, Rachel, Tamar -- 3. Five women of Moses' infancy: Shiphrah and Puah, Moses' mother and sister, Pharaoh's daughter -- 4. Rahab -- 5. Deborah and Jael -- 6. Delilah -- 7. David's wives: Michal, Abigail, Bathsheba -- 8. Jezebel -- 9. Ruth -- 10. Esther -- 11. Conclusions: comedy and Hebrew Bible -- 12. Conclusions: comedy, the Hebrew Bible, and feminist interpretation. |