| Description |
1 online resource |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Summary |
Joy A. Schroeder explores centuries of Jewish and Christian interpretations of the biblical story of Deborah, an authoritative judge, prophet, and war leader who violently defeated her enemies. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Deborah (Biblical judge)
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Deborah (Biblical judge) |
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Bible. Judges, IV-V -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Bible. |
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Women in the Bible.
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Women in the Bible. |
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Sex role -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
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Sex role -- Religious aspects -- Judaism.
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Sex role -- Religious aspects -- Christianity. |
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Sex role -- Religious aspects -- Judaism. |
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RELIGION -- Biblical Studies -- Old Testament. |
| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Subject |
Gender roles. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Schroeder, Joy A., 1963- Deborah's daughters 9780199991044 (DLC) 2013030925 (OCoLC)861541299 |
| ISBN |
9780199991051 (electronic book) |
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0199991057 (electronic book) |
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9780199359615 |
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019935961X |
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9780199991044 |
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0199991049 |
| Standard No. |
40023882106 |
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