A Feminist companion to Judges / [print]
edited by Athalya Brenner.
- Sheffield, England : Sheffield Academic Press, (c)1993.
- 242 pages ; 22 cm.
- The Feminist companion to the Bible ; 4 .
- Feminist companion to the Bible ; 4. .
Includes contributions by Lillian R. Klein, and others.
Introduction A spectrum of female characters in the book of Judges Is Judges a woman's satire of men who play God? / Adrien Janis Bledstein -- The book of Judges : paradigm and deviation in images of women Valorized or vilified? : the women of Judges in midrashic sources A triangle and a rhombus in narrative structure : a proposed integrative reading of Judges 4 and 5 Mothers and a mediator in the Song of Deborah Marginalization, ambiguity, silencing : the story of Jephthah's daughter On Judges 11 Manoah promptly followed his wife (Judges 13.11) : on the place of the woman in birth narratives Samson's mother : an unnamed protagonist Toward a womanist hermeneutic : a reading of Judges 19-21 Author of a crime A body of writing : Judges 19 Afterword Athalya Brenner -- Lillian R. Klein -- Lillian R. Klein -- Leila Leah Bronner -- Athalya Brenner -- Fokkelien van Dijk-Hemmes -- Esther Fuchs -- J. Cheryl Exum -- Yairah Amit -- Adele Reinhartz -- Koala Jones-Warsaw -- Peggy Kamuf -- Mieke Bal -- Athalya Brenner.