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.