Fathers and daughters in the Hebrew Bible / Johanna Stiebert.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stiebert, Johanna.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fatherhood--Biblical teaching.

Fatherhood.

Fathers and daughters--Biblical teaching.

Fathers and daughters.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (278 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

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.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Abbreviations; Introduction; Investigative Methods and Assumptions; 1. The Father and his Daughter; Part 1: The Semantic Range of (omitted) and (omitted); (a) (omitted); (b) (omitted); Part 2: Roles and Relations; (a) Intra-family bonds; (b) Father, daughter, marriage, alliances; (c) Fathers, daughters-and sons; (d) Father, daughter, inheritance; (e) Priestly daughters; Concluding Remarks: Son or Daughter?; 2. The Sacrificed Daughter; Part 1: Judges 11:29-40; Part 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; Part 1: Leviticus 18 and 20; (a) The missing daughter; (b) Leviticus 18: a daughter's protection?; (c) The incest laws as commentary?; Part 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 ZionConcluding 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; Bibliography; Index of Authors; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; W; Y; Z; Index of Subjects; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; V; W; Z; Index of References

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on Apr. 10, 2013).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-299-39730-1

0-19-165524-4

OCLC:

922972025