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Dangerous Sisters of the Hebrew Bible

  • Paperback
  • 176 pages
  • Publisher: Fortress Press,U.S.
  • 15.3 x 22.7 x 1.6 cm

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For readers interested in women's roles in the Bible

Unearths overlooked sisterly dynamics in Scripture

You will gain new insights into biblical narratives

Discover the untold stories of sisters in the Hebrew Bible.

Fathers, sons, and mothers take center stage in the Bible's grand narratives, Amy Kalmanofsky observes. Sisters and sisterhood receive less attention in scholarship but, she argues, play an important role in narratives, revealing anxieties related to desire, agency, and solidarity among women playing out (and playing against) their roles in a patrilineal society. Most often, she shows, sisters are destabilizing figures in narratives about family crisis, where property, patrimony, and the resilience of community boundaries are at risk. Kalmanofsky discusses the "ideal sister" (represented by Miriam and by Rebecca), sister pairs (Rachel and Leah; Michal and Merav; Israel and Judah), incestuous sisters (Lot's daughters; Abraham's representation of Sarah; Tamar, victim of her brother's rape), and the dynamics of sisterhoods, including the daughters of Adam, Moab, the Land, Israel, Jerusalem, and at last the sisterly solidarity of Ruth and Naomi. In all these narratives, Kalmanofsky demonstrates, the particular role of sisters had important narrative effects, revealing previously underappreciated dynamics in Israelite society.
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  • Title

    Dangerous Sisters of the Hebrew Bible

  • Author

    Amy Kalmanofsky

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Fortress Press,U.S.

  • Published

    January 2014

  • Weight

    300g

  • Page Count

    176

  • Dimensions

    15.3 x 22.7 x 1.6 cm

  • ISBN

    9781451469950

  • ISBN-10

    1451469950

  • Eden Code

    4260278

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