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Women recounted : narrative thinking and the God of Israel
- Title
- Women recounted : narrative thinking and the God of Israel / James G. Williams.
- Author
- Williams, James G., 1936-
- Publication
- Sheffield : Almond Press, 1982.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book/Text | Use in library | BS575 .W54 1982 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- 150 pages; 23 cm
- Series Statement
- Bible and literature series, 0260-4493 ; 6
- Uniform Title
- Bible and literature series ; 6.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Note
- Includes indexes.
- Bibliography (note)
- Bibliography: p. 141-144.
- 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.
- ISBN
- 0907459188
- 0907459196
- 9780907459187
- 9780907459194
- LCCN
- 82222076
- 7829660 7215133 +UKX
- OCLC
- ocm09401608
- 9401608
- SCSB-623771
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library