
Texts of Terror
Literary-Feminist Readings of Biblical Narratives
Phyliis Trible(Author)
SCM Press
Published on 1. February 2003
Book
Paperback/Softback
146 pages
978-0-334-02900-7 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Series
Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
New edition
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 203 mm
Width: 127 mm
Thickness: 8 mm
Weight
165 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-334-02900-7 (9780334029007)
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Persons
Phyllis Trible is Baldwin Professor of Sacred Literature, Union Theological Seminary, New York.