Fathers and Daughters in the Hebrew Bible
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 28 March 2013
- ISBN 9780199673827
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages278 pages
- Size 222x148x22 mm
- Weight 484 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
A thorough examination of father-daughter depictions in the Hebrew Bible exploring a broad spectrum of metaphors, myths, legal texts and narrative accounts and drawing on methodologies from the social sciences to investigate the Hebrew Bible portrayals of this key familial relationship.
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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' (אב) and 'daughter' (בת), as well as careful examination of inter-family dynamics and the daughter's role vis-à-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.
Stiebert gives readers an overview and a balanced assessment of the current state of discussion surrounding this interesting topic. Summing Up: Recommended.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Investigative Methods and Assumptions
The Father and His Daughter
Part 1: The Semantic Range of אב and בת
Part 2: Roles and Relations
Concluding Remarks: Son or Daughter?
The Sacrificed Daughter
Part 1: Judges 11:29-40
Part 2: Feminist Criticism and Judges 11
Concluding Remarks: Son vs. Daughter Sacrifice
Father, Daughter and Incest
Part 1: Leviticus 18 and 20
Part 2: Incest and the Narrative Texts
Concluding Remarks: Father-Daughter Incest and the Hebrew Bible
God the Father and His Daughters
Myth and Metaphor
Concluding Remarks: God s Fatherhood of Daughters
Conclusion
