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Women of war, women of woe : Joshua and Judges through the eyes of nineteenth-century female biblical interpreters /
Recovering a neglected chapter of reception history, this unique volume gathers select writings by thirty-five nineteenth-century women on the stories of several women in Joshua and Judges, including Rahab, Deborah, Jael, and Delilah. (Back cover).
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Grand Rapids, Michigan :
Eerdmans Publishing Company,
2016.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Rahab. Sarah Ewing Hall: a sanitized Rahab
- Susanna Haswell Rowson: is lying always wrong?
- Sarah Hale: redeeming Rahab
- Cecil Frances (Fanny) Alexander: from scarlet thread to blood drops
- Charlotte Maria Tucker: the sign of the cord
- Etty Woosnam: true conversion
- Leigh Norval: daring to be different
- Josephine Elizabeth Butler: the saving shelter of the home
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton: the question of motives
- 2. Achsah, Caleb's daughter. Lydia: Aschsah spiritually considered
- Grace Aguilar: Achsah and the age of chivalry
- Charlotte Maria Tucker: the Hebrew daughter's prayer
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton: assertiveness training
- Marianne Farningham: giving good gifts
- 3. Deborah. Grace Aguilar: superwoman
- Clara Balfour: redefining femininity
- Barbara Kellison: helpmeet and head
- Julia McNair Wright: knowledge is power
- Harriet Beecher Stowe: an inspired poet
- Elizabeth Baxter: an imperfect, but useful woman
- Clara B. Neyman: genius knows no sex
- 4. Jael. Sarah Ewing Hall: Jael's masculine resolution and cruelty
- Mary Cornwallis: using the only means in her power
- Eliza R. Stansbury Steele: a mother's love
- Eliza Smith: the worst woman ever
- Emily Owen: Jael: a heroine?
- Constance de Rothschild and Annie de Rothschild: a true Hebrew woman at heart
- Harriet Beecher Stowe: the tiger, tracked, snared, and caught
- Elizabeth Jane Whately: God's executioner
- Etty Woosnam: unsexing Jael and fighting demon drink
- Anne Mercier: Deborah was wrong about Jael
- M.G.: nailing sin to the cross
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton: cold-blooded fiend.
- 5. Jephthah's daughter. Caroline Howard Gilman: obedient unto death
- Sarah Ewing Hall: a child protests: a mother listens
- Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck: it's all about translation
- Susanna Rowson: the American dream sacrificed
- Eliza R. Stansbury Steele: maid of Gilead, fare thee well
- Adelia C. Graves: her life bought our freedom
- Rose Terry Cooke: cursed above all women
- Cecil Frances Alexander: saintly sacrifice
- Leigh Norval: like father, like daughter
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton: a woman in the "no-name series"
- Louisa Southworth: only a girl
- 6. Manoah's wife. Grace Aguilar: conceling your superiority
- Mary Elizabeth Beck: drink milk not beer
- Edith M. Dewhurst: nameless but known
- M.G.: saintly mothers
- Clara B. Neyman: demythologizing the angel
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton: Mrs. Manoah Doe
- 7. Delilah. Mary Cornwallis: a cautionary tale
- Sarah Hale: Samson the traitor
- Harriet Beecher Stowe: Delilah the destroyer
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox: the road to sweet hell
- Clara B. Neyman: the double standard
- 8. The Levite's concubine. Mary Cornwallis: abused to death
- Josephine Butler: the weak and prostrate figure lying at our door
- Josephine Butler: cold dead hands upon our threshold.