Smooth Words
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Smooth Words

Women, Proverbs, and Performance in Biblical Wisdom

  1. 310 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Smooth Words

Women, Proverbs, and Performance in Biblical Wisdom

About this book

This book explores the social roles of women as portrayed within the book of Proverbs, as well as the character archetypes and patriarchal ideologies which undergird the sages' portrayal. Using feminist folklore methodologies and performance studies, the author explores an alternative paradigm for understanding women's relationship to wisdom traditions in the ancient near east, using parallel texts, later midrash and extrabiblical re-presentations of biblical women associated with wisdom. The author demonstrates that women were culturally authorized 'performers' of the family based wisdom traditions of teaching, economic problem solving, and care giving, and that these roles provided them with a platform to use their acknowledged wisdom in public roles.

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Information

Publisher
Sheffield Academic Press
Year
2002
Print ISBN
9780567243157
eBook ISBN
9780567120021
Edition
1
Topic
Theology & Religion
Subtopic
Biblical Studies

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. List of Illustrations
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. Abbreviations
  5. To the Reader
  6. Chapter 1 W/WISDOM THE SlGNIFIER
  7. Chapter 2 TEXTUAL WOMEN: THE SOCIAL ROLES OF WOMEN IN THE PRIVATE, PUBLIC AND COSMIC DOMAINS
  8. Chapter 3 WOMEN USING WISDOM: PERFORMING THE TRADITION
  9. Chapter 4 THE WISDOM OF NEWTONS
  10. Chapter 5 CONCLUDING SEMI-SCIENTIFIC POSTSCRIPT
  11. Bibliography
  12. Index of Proverbs and Instructions
  13. Index of References
  14. Index of Authors