Deborah's daughters : gender politics and biblical interpretation /

Schroeder, Joy A., 1963-

Deborah's daughters : gender politics and biblical interpretation / Joy A. Schroeder. - New York : Oxford University Press, (c)2014. - 1 online resource.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction: woman of flames or inflammatory woman? -- Domesticating Deborah: disputes about women's leadership in early Judaism and Christianity -- Wife of Barak: Deborah in the Middle Ages -- Judge Deborah and the monstrous regiment of women: sixteenth-century writers and the prophetess -- A "heroick and masculine-spirited championess": Deborah in early modern gender debates -- Mothers in Israel: suffragettes, women preachers, and female roles in the nineteenth century -- A fiery woman: Deborah in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries -- Conclusion: the prophet Deborah in Jewish and Christian imagination.



9780199991051


Deborah (Biblical judge)


Bible.--Old Testament--Judges IV-V--Criticism, interpretation, etc.


Women in the Bible.
Sex role--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Sex role--Religious aspects--Judaism.


Electronic Books.

BS580 / .D436 2014