Colleen M. Conway

Sex and Slaughter in the Tent of Jael (eBook, PDF)

A Cultural History of a Biblical Story

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

In the Hebrew Bible, Judges 4-5 tells the lurid story of the heroic figure of Jael, the formidable woman who saves Israel from the Canaanite army by seducing their general, Sisera, and then nailing his head to the ground with a tent-peg. Once separated from its original theological context, the Jael and Sisera tradition transforms into a story about gender identity and conflict between the sexes. This gruesome tale has long intrigued scholars and artists alike, repeatedly and creatively building on its gendered themes. In Sex and Slaughter in the Tent of Jael, Colleen Conway offers the first sustained look at how this biblical tradition has been used artistically to articulate and inform cultural debates about gender. She traces the cultural retellings of this story in poems, prints, paintings, plays, and narratives across centuries. Conway examines the ways in which Jael has been reimagined by turns as a wily seductress, passionate lover, frustrated and bored mother, peace-bringing earth goddess, and deadly cyborg assassin. Meanwhile, Sisera variously plays the enemy general, the seduced lover, the noble but tragically duped victim, and the violent male chauvinist. Ultimately, Conway's analyses demonstrate how cultural productions of this ancient text intersect with broader conversations about the often conflicted, and sometimes violent, relationship between the sexes.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780190626884
• Artikelnr.: 48794086

Autorenporträt

Dr. Colleen M. Conway is Professor of Religion at Seton Hall University. She is the author of Behold the Man: Jesus and Greco-Roman Masculinity (Oxford University Press, 2008) and numerous articles on gender construction in the New Testament.

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