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Deborah's daughters: gender politics and biblical interpretation/

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Schroeder, Joy A
Format: Printed Book
Published: New York: Oxford University Press, 2014.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: woman of flames or inflammatory woman?
  • Domesticating Deborah: disputes about women's leadership in early Judaism and Christianity
  • Wife of Barak: Deborah in the Middle Ages
  • Judge Deborah and the monstrous regiment of women: sixteenth-century writers and the prophetess
  • A "heroick and masculine-spirited championess": Deborah in early modern gender debates
  • Mothers in Israel: suffragettes, women preachers, and female roles in the nineteenth century
  • A fiery woman: Deborah in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries
  • Conclusion: the prophet Deborah in Jewish and Christian imagination.