Deborah's Daughters

Gender Politics and Biblical Interpretation

AvJoy A. Schroeder

Inbunden, Engelska, 2014

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Beskrivning

Joy A. Schroeder offers the first in-depth exploration of the biblical story of Deborah, an authoritative judge, prophet, and war leader. For centuries, Deborah's story has challenged readers' traditional assumptions about the place of women in society. Schroeder shows how Deborah's story has fueled gender debates throughout history. An examination of the prophetess's journey through nearly two thousand years of Jewish and Christian interpretation shows how the biblical account of Deborah was deployed against women, for women, and by women who aspired to leadership roles in church and society. Numerous women--and men who supported women's aspirations to leadership--used Deborah's narrative to justify female claims to political and religious authority. Opponents to women's public leadership endeavored to define Deborah's role as ''private'' or argued that she was a divinely authorized exception, not to be emulated by future generations of women.Deborah's Daughters provides crucial new insight into the the history of women in Judaism and Christianity, and into women's past and present roles in the church, synagogue, and society.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2014-04-17
Mått:236 x 165 x 38 mm
Vikt:698 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Academic
Antal sidor:384
Förlag:OUP USA
ISBN:9780199991044

Utforska kategorier

Religion: allmänt inom Filosofi och religion
Genusvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Kristendom inom Filosofi och religion

Mer om författaren

Joy A. Schroeder is a Lutheran pastor and Professor of Church History at Trinity Lutheran Seminary and Capital University, where she holds the Bergener Chair in Theology and Religion.

Recensioner i media

A masterpiece-a model of how history of interpretation should be done. Deborah's Daughters is wonderful book that makes available the forgotten history of the interpretation of one of the most important female figures in Scripture accessible for the first time. Schroeder's carefully researched, well-written work is suited to a wide audience of scholars and students and promises to be a great resource for college and seminary courses.

Innehållsförteckning

Acknowledgements ; Abbreviations ; List of Illustrations ; Introduction: Woman of Flames or Inflammatory Woman? ; 1 Domesticating Deborah: Disputes About Women's Leadership in Early Judaism and Christianity ; 2 Wife of Barak: Deborah in the Middle Ages ; 3 Judge Deborah and the Monstrous Regiment of Women: Sixteenth-Century Writers and the Prophetess ; 4 A "Heroick and Masculine-Spirited Championess": Deborah in Early Modern Gender Debates ; 5 Mothers in Israel: Suffragettes, Women Preachers, and Female Roles in the Nineteenth Century ; 6 A Fiery Woman: Deborah in the Twentieth and Early Twenty-First Centuries ; Conclusion: The Prophet Deborah in Jewish and Christian Imagination ; Notes ; Bibliography ; Index