Women of War, Women of Woe: Joshua and Judges through the Eyes of Nineteenth-Century Female Biblical Interpreters

Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Rahab -- Sarah Ewing: 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 (A.L.O.E.): The Sign of the Cord -- Etty...

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Main Author: Taylor, Marion Ann (Author, Other)
Contributors: de Groot, Christiana (Other)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
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Published: Grand Rapids Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co 2016
In:Year: 2016
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Women of War, Women of Woe: Joshua and Judges through the Eyes of Nineteenth-century Female Biblical Interpreters, Marion Ann Taylor and Christiana De Groot (eds), Eerdmans, 2016 (ISBN 978-0-8028-7302-6), x + 278 pp., pb 35 (2019) (May, Cory J.)
IxTheo Classification:HB Old Testament
Further subjects:B Bible-Joshua-Feminist criticism-History-19th century
B Electronic books
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Parallel Edition:Erscheint auch als: Taylor, Marion Ann: Women of War, Women of Woe : Joshua and Judges through the Eyes of Nineteenth-Century Female Biblical Interpreters. - Grand Rapids : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.,c2016. - 9780802873026
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Summary:Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Rahab -- Sarah Ewing: 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 (A.L.O.E.): 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: Achsah 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: Concealing 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 or the Bad Power of a Bad Woman -- 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 -- Bibliography -- Index of Names and Subjects -- Index of Scripture
ISBN:1467445479