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Description

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

Uniform title

1. Deborah's daughters (Online)

Alternative title

1. Deborah's daughters (Online)

Subject

1. Deborah (Biblical judge)
2. Bible. > Criticism, interpretation, etc
3. Women in the Bible
4. Sex role > Religious aspects > Christianity
5. Sex role > Religious aspects > Judaism

Contents

1. 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.

Bibliography (note)

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

Access (note)

1. Access restricted to authorized users.

Author

1. Schroeder, Joy A., 1963-

Title

1. Deborah's daughters [electronic resource] : gender politics and biblical interpretation / Joy A. Schroeder.

Imprint

1. New York : Oxford University Press, [2014]

Bibliography

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

Access

1. Access restricted to authorized users.

Connect to:

1. Available from home with a valid library card
2. Available onsite at NYPL

LCCN

1. 2013030925