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Deborah's daughters gender politics and biblical interpretation

Title: Deborah's daughters [electronic resource] : gender politics and biblical interpretation / Joy A. Schroeder.
Author: Schroeder, Joy A., 1963-
Publication: New York : Oxford University Press, [2014]

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1 online resource (xiii, 359 pages) : illustrations.

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Deborah's daughters (Online)

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Deborah's daughters (Online)

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-350) and index.

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Contents

Introduction: woman of flames or inflammatory woman? -- Domesticating Deborah: disputes about women's leadership in early Judaism and Christianity -- Wife of Barak: Deborah in the Middle Ages -- Judge Deborah and the monstrous regiment of women: sixteenth-century writers and the prophetess -- A "heroick and masculine-spirited championess": Deborah in early modern gender debates -- Mothers in Israel: suffragettes, women preachers, and female roles in the nineteenth century -- A fiery woman: Deborah in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries -- Conclusion: the prophet Deborah in Jewish and Christian imagination.

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