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Joshua and Judges
The Texts @ Contexts series gathers scholarly voices from diverse contexts and social locations to bring new or unfamiliar facets of biblical texts to light. Joshua and Judges focuses attention on themes and tensions at the beginning of Israel’s story in the Bible. How do these books represent conquest, war, trauma, 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 Texts @ Contexts 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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Joshua and Judges
The Texts @ Contexts series gathers scholarly voices from diverse contexts and social locations to bring new or unfamiliar facets of biblical texts to light. Joshua and Judges focuses attention on themes and tensions at the beginning of Israel’s story in the Bible. How do these books represent conquest, war, trauma, 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 Texts @ Contexts 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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Joshua and Judges

Joshua and Judges

Joshua and Judges

Joshua and Judges

Overview

The Texts @ Contexts series gathers scholarly voices from diverse contexts and social locations to bring new or unfamiliar facets of biblical texts to light. Joshua and Judges focuses attention on themes and tensions at the beginning of Israel’s story in the Bible. How do these books represent conquest, war, trauma, 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 Texts @ Contexts series, these essays de-center the often homogeneous first-world orientation of much biblical scholarship and open up new possibilities for discovery.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781451426328
Publisher: Augsburg Fortress, Publishers
Publication date: 04/01/2013
Series: Texts & Contexts
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 328
File size: 1 MB
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Athalya Brenner is professor emerita of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and professor in biblical studies at the Department of Hebrew Culture Studies at Tel Aviv University, Israel. She holds an honorary PhD from the University of Bonn, Germany. She is general editor of the Feminist Companion to the Bible, co-editor of Genesis and Exodus and Deuteronomy in the Texts @ Contexts series (Fortress Press, 2008 and 2012), and author of I Am: Biblical Women Tell Their Own Stories (Fortress Press, 2004).

Gale A. Yee is Nancy W. King Professor of Biblical Studies at Episcopal Divinity School, Cambridge, Mass., and general editor of Semeia Studies. Her books include Poor Banished Children of Eve: Women as Evil in the Hebrew Bible (Fortress, 2003); she edited Judges and Method: New Approaches in Biblical Studies, 2nd ed. (Fortress Press, 2003), and co-edited Genesis and Exodus and Deuteronomy in the Texts@Contexts series (Fortress Press, 2008 and 2012).

Table of Contents

Other Books in the Series vii

Series Preface, Updated: Texts in/at Life Contexts The Editors ix

Abbreviations xv

List of Contributors xix

Introduction Gale A. Yee Athalya Brenner 1

Part I What Do We Do, What Can We Do, about Joshua and Judges?

1 The God of Joshua: An Ambivalent Field of Negotiation Walter Brueggemann 13

2 Joshua-Judges and Postcolonial Criticism Trent C. Butler 27

3 Teaching Bible Stories Critically "They Did Not Spare a Soul"-The Book of Joshua in an Israeli Secular Education Environment Yonina Dor Naomi De-Malach 39

4 Inside, Outside, or in Between: Feminist/Womanist Hermeneutical Challenges for Joshua and Judges Cheryl Kirk-Duggan 60

5 The Finns' Holy War against the Soviet Union: The Use of War Rhetoric in Finnish History during the Second World War Kari Latvus 91

6 Indigenous Helpers and Invader Homelands L. Daniel Hawk 109

Part II Case Studies in Judges

7 Women Frame the Book of Judges-How and Why? Athalya Brenner 125

8 Jael, 'eshet heber the Kenite: A Diviner? Ora Brison 139

9 Choosing Sides in Judges 4-5: Rethinking Representations of Jael Ryan P. Bonfiglio 161

10 The Woman Warrior Revisited: Jael, Fa Mulan, and American Orientalism Gale A. Yee 175

11 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 191

12 From the Margins to the Margins: Jephthah's Daughter and Her Father Pamela J. Milne 209

13 Delilah-A Forgotten Hero (Judges 16:4-21): A Cross-Cultural Narrative Reading Royce M. Victor 235

14 Narrative Loss, the (Important) Role of Women, and Community in Judges 19 Brad Embry 257

15 Judges 19: Text of Trauma Janelle Stanley 275

Bibliography 291

Author Index 319

Scripture Index 325

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