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Reading Gender in Judges: An Intertextual Approach

Contributor(s): Birdsong, Shelley L (Editor), De Vos, J Cornelis (Editor), Kim, Hyun Chul Paul (Editor)

ISBN: 9781628374698

Publisher: SBL Press

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Pub Date: March 31, 2023

LCCN: 2023934921

Lexile Code: 0000

Features: Bibliography, Index

Target Age Group: NA to NA

Physical Info: 0.88" H x 9.00" L x 6.00" W ( 1.45 lbs) 334 pages

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Description: "Much of the content of Judges can be understood only when read together with other parts of the Hebrew Bible. Narratives in Judges comment, criticize, and reinterpret other texts from across what became the canon, often by troubling gender, disrupting stereotypical binaries, and creating a kind of gender chaos. This volume brings together gender criticism and intertextuality, methods that logically align with intersectional lenses, to draw attention to how race, ethnicity, class, religion, ability, sex, and sexuality all play a role in how one is gendered in the book of Judges. Contributors also draw on theology, ancient and contemporary culture, and reception history to read gender in Judges"--

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