Joshua and Judges

Joshua and Judges

by Brenner, Athalya Yee, Gale A.

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The Texts @ Contexts series gathers scholarly voices from diverse contexts and social locations to bring new or unfamiliar facets of biblical texts to light. This book focuses attention on themes and tensions at the beginning of Israel's story in the Bible. How do these books represent conquest, war, trauma, and violence against women and their marginalization? How does God appear to relate to these realities? And what do contemporary men and women do with biblical ambivalence? Like other volum…

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  • Full title :Joshua and Judges / Athalya Brenner and Gale A. Yee, editors.

Summary

The Texts @ Contexts series gathers scholarly voices from diverse contexts and social locations to bring new or unfamiliar facets of biblical texts to light. This book focuses attention on themes and tensions at the beginning of Israel's story in the Bible. How do these books represent conquest, war, trauma, and violence against women and their marginalization? How does God appear to relate to these realities? And what do contemporary men and women do with biblical ambivalence? Like other volumes in the series, these essays de-center the often homogeneous first-world orientation of much biblical scholarship and open up new possibilities for discovery. --

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2013

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):Fortress Press
  • Place of Publication:Minneapolis, MN
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:2013

The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9781451426328, 1451426321
  • oclc:ocn838101975
  • LC Classification:BS1295.52
  • Dewey Decimal:222/.206

Table of Contents

What do we do, what can we do, about Joshua and Judges?. The God of Joshua : an ambivalent field of negotiation / Walter Brueggemann ; Joshua-Judges and postcolonial criticism / Trent C. Butler ; Teaching Bible stories critically : "They did not spare a soul" : the Book of Joshua in an Israeli secular education environment / Yonina Dor and Naomi De-Malach ; Inside, outside, or in between : feminist/womanist hermeneutical challenges for Joshua and Judges / Cheryl Kirk-Duggan ; The Finns' holy war against the Soviet Union : the use of war rhetoric in Finnish history during the Second World War / Kari Latvus ; Indigenous helpers and invader homelands / L. Daniel Hawk -- Case studies in Judges. Women frame the book of Judges : how and why? / Athalya Brenner ; Jael, 'eshet heber the Kenite : a diviner? / Ora Brison ; Choosing sides in Judges 4-5 : rethinking representations of Jael / Ryan P. Bonfiglio ; The woman warrior revisited : Jael, Fa Mulan, and American Orientalism / Gale A. Yee ; This season you'll be wearing God : on the manning of Gideon and the undressing of the Israelites (Judges 6:1-8:32) / Meir Bar Mymon ; From the margins to the margins : Jephthah's daughter and her fat…

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Subjects

Bible., Joshua Bible., Judges Criticism, interpretation, etc RELIGION -- Biblical Studies

Writers

Brenner, Athalya Yee, Gale A.

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