Woman at the Window: Biblical Tales of Oppression and EscapeIn creative, analytical retellings of biblical tales about women, Aschkenasy demonstrates how recurring situations, dilemmas, and modes of conduct represent the politics of women’s realities in premodern civilization—how women’s lives in those times were characterized by social and legal limitations which some accepted and others challenged. |
Contents
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1 WOMAN AT THE WINDOW | 23 |
THE HAZARDS OF THE OPEN SPACE | 43 |
MOBILITY AND ITS BENEFITS | 79 |
4 WOMAN BEHINDTHE SCENES | 103 |
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Woman at the Window: Biblical Tales of Oppression and Escape Nehama Aschkenasy No preview available - 1998 |
Woman at the Window: Biblical Tales of Oppression and Escape Nehama Aschkenasy No preview available - 1998 |
Woman at the Window: Biblical Tales of Oppression and Escape Nehama Aschkenasy No preview available - 1998 |
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Abigail Abimelech action Adonijah ancient Aschkenasy Ashtart Bathsheba becomes Bethlehem Bible Biblical Narrative biblical text Boaz bride price brothers Canaanite concubine culture daughter David Deborah defined Derek Bickerton dialogue Dinah dramatic Elkanah episode Esau Eve’s father father’s home female feminine field figure finally find first five Furthermore Genesis girl’s God’s Hannah Hebrew Hivvites human husband implies Israel Israelite Jacob Joab Joab’s journey Judah king king’s language Leah Levite Levite’s linguistic literary Lord male man’s marry means Michal Midrash Nabal Naomi narrator Natan Nevertheless patriarchal person prayer prophet protagonists rape rape of Dinah reader reading Rebecca reflected role Ruth Ruth’s Samuel Saul’s scene seems sense sexual Shekhem Shelah significance silence Sisera Sisera’s mother Solomon sons space spatial story storyteller suggests tale tale’s Tamar thou tradition tribe Uriah verb verbal wife window wise woman woman’s women words Yael Yael’s