Women of War, Women of Woe: Joshua and Judges through the by Marion Ann Taylor,Christiana de Groot

By Marion Ann Taylor,Christiana de Groot

The tales of such ladies as Rahab, Deborah, Jael, Delilah, Jephthah's daughter, and the Levite's concubine raised thorny questions for nineteenth-century woman biblical interpreters. may a Victorian girl use her intelligence to barter like Rahab? was once the likely well-educated Deborah a suitable function version? Or did Jephthah's daughter extra safely version a pious woman's existence as she submitted to her father's vow?

This precise quantity gathers opt for writings through thirty-five nineteenth-century girls at the tales of numerous girls in Joshua and Judges. improving and reading overlooked works from Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and lots of others, Women of struggle, girls of Woe illuminates the biblical textual content, recovers a missed bankruptcy of reception background, and is helping us comprehend and practice Scripture in our current context.

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