| Description |
226 pages ; 22 cm |
| Summary |
" ... delves deeply into three stories of women in the Hebrew Bible (Hannah, Deborah, and Tamar) and explores issues of reading character, plot, and point of view" (back cover). |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-226). |
| Contents |
Introduction. Women in Biblical stories ; Character, plot, point of view ; Then and now ; This book's approach. -- 1. Reading a biblical story. Story ; The temporal shape of a story ; The temporal shape of reading a story ; Poetics ; An uncommon challenge ; Building blocks of story : character ; Building blocks of story : point of view ; Building blocks of story : plot ; Three engaging stories. -- 2. The struggle for voice : character in the story of Hannah. Reading for character ; Narrative strategies and techniques : reading the story ; Characters : determining the protagonist ; Characters : supplementary strategies ; Characters : minor roles ; Interpreting the story ; Story and context ; Hannah's role. -- 3. Women at the crossroads : point of view in the Song of Deborah. Types of point of view ; Rhetorical levels and terms ; Perceptual point of view : principles of parallelism and organization ; Metric patterns in the Song of Deborah ; Semantic patterns in the Song of Deborah ; The play of point of view and rhetoric : reading the poem ; Constructing perceptual point of view : from versets and lines to strophes and stanzas ; Ideological point of view : modes of valuation ; Spatiotemporal point of view : parataxis and scenic shifting ; Psychological point of view : external and internal ; A dramatic embedded point of view ; The women and their roles. -- 4. Redeeming a Patriarch : plotting in the Tale of Judah and Tamar. Reading about the story : interpretive issues ; The temporal shape of the plot : reading the story ; Tracing the developing tensions ; Analyzing the plot : a temporal process ; Assessing the issues : placement, character, and significance ; Redeeming Judah. -- Conclusion : women's stories speak. |
| Subject |
Women in the Bible.
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Women in the Bible. |
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Bible. Old Testament -- Criticism, Narrative.
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Bible. Old Testament. |
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Bible. A.T. -- Critique narrative. |
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Femmes dans la Bible. |
| ISBN |
0800636198 |
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