Smooth words : women, Proverbs, and performance in biblical wisdom / Carole Fontaine.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fontaine, Carole R.

Series:

Journal for the study of the Old Testament. Supplement series ; 356.

Journal for the study of the Old Testament. Supplement series ; 356

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wisdom (Biblical personification).

Women in the Bible.

Bible. Proverbs--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bible.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (313 p.)

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Sheffield Academic, c2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book explores the social roles of women as portrayed within the book of Proverbs, as well as the character archetypes and patriarchal ideologies which undergird the sages' portrayal. Using feminist folklore methodologies and performance studies, the author explores an alternative paradigm for understanding women's relationship to wisdom traditions in the ancient near east, using parallel texts, later midrash and extrabiblical re-presentations of biblical women associated with wisdom. The author demonstrates that women were culturally authorized 'performers' of the family based wisdom trad

Contents:

Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; To the Reader; Chapter 1 W/WISDOM THE SlGNIFIER; Chapter 2 TEXTUAL WOMEN: THE SOCIAL ROLES OF WOMEN IN THE PRIVATE, PUBLIC AND COSMIC DOMAINS; Chapter 3 WOMEN USING WISDOM: PERFORMING THE TRADITION; Chapter 4 THE WISDOM OF NEWTONS; Chapter 5 CONCLUDING SEMI-SCIENTIFIC POSTSCRIPT; Bibliography; Index of Proverbs and Instructions; Index of References; Index of Authors

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographic references (p. [272]-285) and indexes.

ISBN:

9786611803032

9781281803030

1281803030

9780567120021

0567120023

OCLC:

276860150