Colleen M Conway

Sex and Slaughter in the Tent of Jael

A Cultural History of a Biblical Story

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Produktbeschreibung

In the biblical story of Jael and Sisera (Judges 4-5), the heroic Jael takes a tent peg and nails the Canaanite general Sisera's head to the ground, thus saving Israel. Colleen Conway analyzes re-imaginings of this story across the centuries, in visual art, poems, plays, and novels, and shows how the cultural productions of an ancient biblical story intersect with broader conversations about the often conflicted, and sometimes violent, relationship between thesexes.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 228
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Oktober 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 155mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9780190626877
• ISBN-10: 0190626879
• Artikelnr.: 47863112

Autorenporträt

Colleen M. Conway is Professor of Religion at Seton Hall University.

Inhaltsangabe

* List of Figures
* Acknowledgments
* 1. Introduction: A Cultural History of Jael and Sisera
* 2. Ancient Stories of Jael and Sisera: The Biblical Versions
* 3. Problem Solving in Ancient Retellings of Jael and Sisera
* 4. From Allegory to Morality: Jael and Sisera Go Public
* 5. Painting Jael and Sisera in the Renaissance
* 6. Motives for Murder in 19th- and Early 20th-Century Cultural
Performances of Jael and Sisera
* 7. Jael Rides the Second Wave of Feminism
* 8. Gender, and Cultural Memory in A.S. Byatt's "Jael"
* 9. Old Tales in New Forms: Reflections on a Cultural History of a
Biblical Tradition
* Notes
* Bibliography
* Index