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Fathers and Daughters in the Hebrew Bible (Hardcover)
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Fathers and Daughters in the Hebrew Bible (Hardcover)
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The father-daughter dyad features in the Hebrew Bible in all of
narratives, laws, myths and metaphors. In previous explorations of
this relationship, the tendency has been to focus on discrete
stories - notable among them, Judges 11 (the story of Jephthah's
human sacrifice of his daughter) and Genesis 19 (the dark tale of
Lot's daughters' seduction of their father). By taking the full
spectrum into account, however, the daughter emerges prominently as
(not only) expendable and exploitable (as an emphasis on daughter
sacrifice or incest has suggested) but as cherished and protected
by her father. Depictions of daughters are multifarious and there
is a balance of very positive and very negative images. While not
uncritical of earlier feminist investigations, this book makes a
contribution to feminist biblical criticism and utilizes methods
drawn from the social sciences and psychoanalysis. Alongside
careful textual analysis, Johanna Stiebert offers a critical
evaluation of the heuristic usefulness of the ethnographic
honour-shame model, of parallels with Roman family studies, and of
the application and meaning of 'patriarchy'. Following semantic
analysis of the primary Hebrew terms for 'father' ( ) and
'daughter' ( ), as well as careful examination of inter-family
dynamics and the daughter's role vis-a-vis the son's, alongside
thorough investigation of both Judges 11 and Genesis 19, and also
of the metaphor of God-the-father of daughters Eve, Wisdom and
Zion, Stiebert provides the fullest exploration of daughters in the
Hebrew Bible to date.
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