Fathers and daughters in the Hebrew Bible [electronic resource] / Johanna Stiebert
- Author:
- Stiebert, Johanna
- Published:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
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- Oxford scholarship online: ezaccess.libraries.psu.edu
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Investigative Methods and Assumptions -- 1.The Father and his Daughter -- pt. 1 The Semantic Range -- pt. 2 Roles and Relations -- (a).Intra-family bonds -- (b).Father, daughter, marriage, alliances -- (c).Fathers, daughters---and sons -- (i).Dinah (Genesis 34) -- (ii).Tamar (2 Samuel 13) -- (d).Father, daughter, inheritance -- (e).Priestly daughters -- Concluding Remarks: Son or Daughter? -- 2.The Sacrificed Daughter -- pt. 1 Judges 11:29-40 -- pt. 2 Feminist Criticism and Judges 11 -- (a).Jephthah and his daughter -- (b).The daughter with no name -- (c).Feminist affirmation of Jephthah's daughter -- (d).The virginity of Jephthah's daughter -- Concluding Remarks: Son vs. Daughter Sacrifice -- 3.Father, Daughter, and Incest -- pt. 1 Leviticus 18 and 20 -- (a).The missing daughter -- (b).Leviticus 18: a daughter's protection? -- (c).The incest laws as commentary? -- pt. 2 Incest and the Narrative Texts -- (a).Lot and his daughters (Genesis 19) -- (b).Judah and Tamar (Genesis 38) -- (c).Boaz and Ruth (Ruth) -- Concluding Remarks: Father-Daughter Incest and the Hebrew Bible -- 4.God the Father and his Daughters -- Myth and Metaphor -- (a).Eve -- (b).Wisdom -- (c).Daughter Zion -- (i).Lamentations -- (ii).Ezekiel 16 -- (iii).Further prophetic examples -- Concluding Remarks: God's Fatherhood of Daughters -- Conclusion -- Honour, Shame, and the Father-Daughter Relationship -- Roman and Hebrew Fathers and Daughters -- Patriarchy and the Father-Daughter Relationship.
- Summary:
- A thorough examination of father-daughter depictions in the Hebrew Bible exploring a broad spectrum of metaphors, myths legal texts and narrative accounts and drawing on methodologies from the social sciences to investigate the Hebrew Bible portrayals of this key familial relationship.
- Subject(s):
- ISBN:
- 9780191752025 (ebook)
- Bibliography Note:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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