Reading gender in Judges : an intertextual approach / edited by Shelley L. Birdsong, J. Cornelis de Vos, and Hyun Chul Paul Kim.
| Other author | Birdsong, Shelley L., 1982- editor. |
| Other author | Vos, Jacobus Cornelis de, 1966- editor. |
| Other author | Kim, Hyun Chul Paul, 1965- editor. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Atlanta : SBL Press, [2023] |
| Copyright Date | ©2023 |
| Description | x, 323 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | Resources for biblical study Resources for biblical study ; no. 103. ^A1002573 |
| Contents | Introduction / Shelley L. Birdsong, J. Cornelis de Vos, Hyun Chul Paul Kim -- Bizarro Genesis : an intertextual reading of gender and identity in Judges / Susan E. Haddox -- The assertiveness of Achsah : gender and intertextuality in the reception history of Caleb's daughter / Joy A. Schroeder -- Into the hand of a woman : Deborah and Jael in Judges 4-5 / Pamela J.W. Nourse -- Nameless in the Nevi'im : intertextuality between female characters in the book of Judges / Elizabeth H.P. Backfish -- The Caleb-Achsah episode : Judges 1:10-15 / J. Cornelis de Vos -- Motherhood, violence, and power in the book of Judges / Rannfrid I. Lasine Thelle -- Struck down by a woman : Abimelech's humiliating intertextual death / Zev Farber -- Fathers, daughters, and problematic verbal commitments in Judges / Richard D. Nelson -- A mother's womb : the collision of politics and the home in Judges 13 / Jennifer J. Williams -- Rereading Samson's weepy wife in Judges 14 : an intertextual evaluation of gender and weeping / Shelley L. Birdsong -- One of these things is not like the other : Delilah and the prostitute in Gaza / Tammi J. Schneider -- "Jonathan's (great) grandmother is a daughter of a foreign priest!" : other women, other priests, and other gods in Judges 17-18 / Soo Kim Sweeney -- Lost in text(s) : the [pilegesh] in Judges 19 / Susanne Gillmayr-Bucher -- The poverty of parallels : reading Judges 19 with Ezekiel 16 via the Song of Songs / Serge Frolov -- Synchrony versus diachrony--reader- versus author-centered : shall the twain ever meet? / Gregory T.K. Wong. |
| Summary | Much of the content of Judges can be understood only when read together with other parts of the Hebrew Bible. Narratives in Judges comment, criticize, and reinterpret other texts from across what became the canon, often by troubling gender, disrupting stereotypical binaries, and creating a kind of gender chaos. This volume brings together gender criticism and intertextuality, methods that logically align with intersectional lenses, to draw attention to how race, ethnicity, class, religion, ability, sex, and sexuality all play a role in how one is gendered in the book of Judges. Contributors ... provide substantially new and significant contributions to the study of gender, the book of Judges, and biblical hermeneutics in general. This volume illustrates why biblical scholars and students need to take the intersectional identities of characters and their intertextual environments seriously -- Back cover. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-303) and indexes. |
| ISBN | 9781628374681 |
| ISBN | 1628374683 (paperback) |
| ISBN | (electronic bk.) |
| ISBN | (electronic bk.) |
| ISBN | 1628374691 |
| ISBN | 9781628374698 paperback |
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