Deborah's daughters : gender politics and biblical interpretation

386 Pages·2014·13.13 MB·English

by  Biblical judge. Deborah, (Biblical judge) Deborah, Biblische Person Deborah, Schroeder, Joy A

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D eb o r a h’s Daught er s
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D eborah’s Daughters
G en d er Po l it i c s a n d B i b l i ca l I n t er pr etat i o n
J oy A. S chroeder
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C ontents
L ist of Figures v ii
A cknowledgments i x
A bbreviations x i
I ntroduction: Woman of Flames or Inf ammatory Woman? 1
1 . D omesticating Deborah: Disputes about Women’s Leadership in Early
Judaism and Christianity 6
2 . W ife of Barak: Deborah in the Middle Ages 2 9
3 . J udge Deborah and the Monstrous Regiment of Women: Sixteenth-Century
Writers and the Prophetess 7 0
4 . A “Heroick and Masculine-Spirited Championess”: Deborah in Early
Modern Gender Debates 106
5 . M others in Israel: Suf ragettes, Women Preachers, and Female Roles
in the Nineteenth Century 1 39
6 . A Fiery Woman: Deborah in the Twentieth and Early Twenty-First Centuries 1 90
C onclusion: T e Prophet Deborah in Jewish and Christian Imagination 2 47
N OTES 2 59
B IBLIOGRAPHY 3 27
I NDEX 3 51
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L ist of Figures
2 .1 Deborah the Prophetess encourages Barak to attack Sisera, Morgan Picture Bible,
c. 1244–1254 6 4
2 .2 T e Prophet Deborah, St Louis Psalter, c.  1260 6 6
3 .1 P ierre Eskrich, D eborah and Barak, 1566 1 00
4 .1 Charles Audran, D eborah, 1647 1 23
5 .1 G ustav Doré, T e Prophet Deborah, c.1 865 1 87
5 .2 J. James Tissot and Followers, D eborah beneath the Palm Tree, c.1 896–1902 1 88
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