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Motherhood, Machismo and the Purpose of Yahweh in Judges 4-5
Goldingay, John
Goldingay, John
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"How is God's purpose achieved in the world? How is oppression (sometimes) brought under control and justice (sometimes) done? How do men and women play a part in the achieving of such ends? And how are they affected by their involvement in these affairs? I have been struck by the way a story in Judges 4-5 suggests perspectives on these questions. In her very suggestive study of the Book of Judges, Death and Dissymmetry, 1 Mieke Bal notes that (male) study of Judges has focused on an attempt to trace the history of the book's composition and to establish the chronology of the period to which it refers. The assumption that this focus will open up the key concerns of the book has tended to make such study ignore another potential 'coherence' of the book. 'The Book of Judges is about death', Bal says in her opening sentence. It focuses on the violence exercised by men on men corporately, by individual men on individual women, and by individual women on individual men"
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1995
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