Women recounted : narrative thinking and the God of Israel /
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| Author / Creator: | Williams, James G., 1936- |
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| Imprint: | Sheffield : Almond Press, 1982. |
| Description: | 150 pages ; 23 cm |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Bible and literature series, 0260-4493 ; 6 Bible and literature series ; 6. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13243492 |
Table of Contents:
- I. On Biblical narrative: perspective and method
- A. Narrative thinking
- Excursus: narrative and aphoristic thinking compared
- B. Fiction, history and myth
- 1. Fiction and history
- 2. Literary criticism and historical studies
- 3. Myth and Biblical prose
- C. Method of reading
- 1. Reading
- 2. Key words
- 3. Speeches: dialogue, reporting and reported speech
- 4. Recurring events
- II. The arch-mother: the mother of Israel's beginnings
- A. The typic scenes
- B. The arche-mother as mediating agent
- C. The disappearance of the mother
- D. Narrative thinking and the arche-mother
- III. Other feminine figures: the multifaceted Israelite feminine
- A. Eve: "The mother of all living"
- B. Deborah, Jael, Judith: the aggressive or warrior woman
- 1. Deborah and Jael
- 2. Judith
- C. Esther and Mary: the woman as dependent heroine
- 1. Esther
- 2. Mary
- D. Ruth: woman as reversal of the patriarchal mode
- E. Delilah, Potiphar's wife, and the alien woman in Proverbs: the Temptress
- IV. The symbolic functions of the feminine
- A. Origins, love and inspiration, change
- B. The woman as counter-order
- 1. Positive counter-order excursus: Hagar
- 2. The alien woman
- V. The biblical feminine and contemporary religiously thought
- A. Review of results
- B. The feminine, sexuality and language
- C. Implications for modern theology
- 1. Interpretation of the Biblical feminine
- 2. Israel as a way of being in the world.