Lot's Daughters: Sex, Redemption and Women's Quest for Authority. By Robert M. Polhemus. California: Stanford University Press, 2005
As a genre, the reception history of the single biblical story has come a long way from the days of Samson-through-the-Ages, with authors offering increasingly focused and often paradigm-driven studies of their subject. Robert Polhemus uses the term ‘the Lot complex’ to describe the outworking of th...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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2006
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Literature and theology
Year: 2006, Volume: 20, Issue: 2, Pages: 211-212 |
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| Summary: | As a genre, the reception history of the single biblical story has come a long way from the days of Samson-through-the-Ages, with authors offering increasingly focused and often paradigm-driven studies of their subject. Robert Polhemus uses the term ‘the Lot complex’ to describe the outworking of the reception history of the story of Lot, his wife, and his daughters, in the shape of the relationship of fathers and daughters, older men and younger women, in Western culture. It remains to be seen whether feminists will be grateful for an alternative to the Freudian Oedipus complex. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4623 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Literature and theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/litthe/frl020 |