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Texts of Terror

Literary-Feminist Readings of Biblical Narratives

Texts of Terror

Literary-Feminist Readings of Biblical Narratives

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Paperback / softback

£18.99

Publisher: SCM Press
ISBN: 9780334029007
Number of Pages: 146
Published: 01/02/2003
Width: 20.3 cm
Height: 12.7 cm

In this book, Phyllis Trible examines four Old Testament narratives of suffering in ancient Israel: Hagar, Tamar, an unnamed concubine and the daughter of Jephthah.

These stories are for Trible the "substance of life", which may imspire new beginnings and by interpreting these stories of outrage and suffering on behalf of their female victims, the author recalls a past that is all to embodied in the present, and prays that these terrors shall not come to pass again.

Texts of Terror is perhaps Trible's most readable book, that brings biblical scholarship within the grasp of the non-specialist. These "sad stories" about women in the Old Testament prompt much refelction on contemporary misuse of the Bible, and therefore have considerable relevance today.

Phyllis Trible, Jane V. Craske

Phyllis Trible is Baldwin Professor of Sacred Literature, Union Theological Seminary, New York.

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