Women, Seduction, and Betrayal in Biblical Narrative

by Alice Bach

Overview

This accessible, readable book breaks new ground in the cultural study of the Bible, challenging the traditional mode of reading the women in the Bible. Using the stories of the "wicked" literary figures in the Bible—the wife of Potiphar, Bathshebha, Delilah and Salomé—Bach argues that biblical characters have a "life" in the mind of the reader independent of the stories in which they were created. Thus, the reader becomes the site at which the texts and the cultures that produced them come together.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521475600
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	08/28/1997
Pages:	312
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.54(h) x 0.71(d)

Table of Contents

List of illustrations; Acknowledgemetns; 1. Signs of the flesh; 2. Contending with the narrator; 3. A story of reading the story of Genesis 39; 4. 'I shall stir up thy mistress against thee'; 5. Signs of her flesh; 6. Wine, women and death; 7. Calling the shots: directing Salomé's dance of death; Bibliography; Index of references; General index.