{"product_id":"judges-19-21-and-ruth-canon-as-a-voice-of-answerability-9789004521704","title":"Judges 19-21 and Ruth: Canon as a Voice of Answerability","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrevious scholarship hints at the connection between Judges 19–21 and Ruth (as set in dialogue), but there has yet to be a study to articulate this relationship. Through a Bakhtinian-canonical perspective, a comparative analysis of these texts unveils intertextual correlations. Lexical and thematic connections include shared idioms, contrasting themes of חרם (“ban”) andחסד  (“loving–kindness,” “covenant–faithfulness”), silence and speech, abuse and potential for abuse, gendered violence and feminine agency. This case-study reveals that Ruth, as a text and as a woman, embodies a voice of answerability to the silenced and abused women in Judges 19–21\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments  List of Figures and Tables    1 Introduction   Judges 19–21 and Ruth in Canonical Dialogue   Canon and Answerability   Reading Silence   Outline of the Book    2 The Answerability of Canon   A Voice for the Voiceless in Judges 19–21   The Polyphonic Nature of Canon   On the Quest for a Voice: Discovering the Utterance   The Chronotopes   Canon as a Voice of Answerability   The Use of נתח as a Voice of Canonical Answerability   Conclusion    3 Judges 19–21 as a Dialogic משל   Understanding Judges 19–21 as a Dialogic משל   Bakhtin’s Voice in the Dialogue of Genre   Dialogic משל   To “I.D.” a Body of Literature: An Unfinalized Threshold   The Instrument of Dismemberment: המאכלת   Thresholds: סף and מפתן   Conclusion    4 Haunted Dialogue   Utterances of the Mute and Mutilated (Judges 20 and 21)   If There Was “No King in Israel,” Who Is in Charge?   Not a King but Acting Like One   The Account of this Evil   The Reported Speech of the Levite   The Woman, the One Slain   Unity at Mizpah   Sons of Worthlessness—My Brother?   Name-Dropping as Theological-Political Symbols:   The Ark of the Covenant of God and Phinehas   Mizpah: Oaths and Weeping   Conclusion    5 חרם in Canonical Dialogue   Thresholds of No Return: חרם   חרם as a Function of Grotesque Realism   Achan and Rahab: Who is Truly חרם in Joshua?   Narrative Setting   חרם: Why All the Fuss?   Canonical Answerability for the Silent?   Conclusion    6 Ruth’s Chronotope in the Canon   Ruth as a Traveling Text   Ruth as a Threshold Text   Dating of Ruth   Ruth’s Chronotope in the Canons   Form, Function, and the Dialogic Nature of Genre   Previous Scholarship on the Genre of Ruth   A New Way Forward: Ruth’s Function as a Dialogic משל   Ruth as a Dialogic משל and a Voice of Canonical   Answerability   Answerability as a Feature of the Dialogism: Ruth and Tamar   Conclusion    7 The Answerability of Borders and Identity   Ruth 1: The Dialogical Nature of Names   Women in Relational Answerability: Naomi, Orpah and   Ruth (Ruth 1)   The Chronotope of Borders: Between and in between Moab   and Bethlehem   Borders of Ethnicity   Naomi, Ruth and Orpah: Relational Answerability   Naomi’s Lament   Intertextual Utterances   Conclusion    8 Chronotope Encounters in Ruth 2 and 3   Chronotopes of Field and Threshing Floor   The Chronotope of Encounter   Encounter with Boaz: A Dialogue of Identity   Ruth’s Response: Speak to the Heart   Canonical Answerability: Genesis 19 and Ruth 2   Chronotope of Encounter: The Threshing Floor   Ruth 3:9 in Canonical Dialogue with the Torah: Violator or   Creative Agent?   Foreign Women in the Canonical Dialogue of Identity   Conclusion    9 Progentitive Problems in Ruth 4   Progenitive Problems Answered by Purchased Possessions   Chronotope of Encounter: The City Gate   Canonical Answerability for the Silent   Ruth’s Loophole of Identity   The Women of Bethlehem: A Voice of Answerability for Ruth   and Naomi   The Canonical Dialogue of חסד in Ruth   Ruth Embodies חסד Towards Naomi   The Dialogic Encounter of Law and Narrative   Conclusion    10 Judges 19–21 and Ruth in Dialogue   Ruth as a Voice of Canonical Answerability   Ruth and Judges as a Dialogic משל   Idioms in Dialogue: נשא אשה (Judges 21:23; Ruth 1:4) and דבר על־לב   (Judges 19:3; Ruth 2:13)   A Dialogue of Identity: The Women in Judges 19–21 and Ruth   Oaths in Dialogue   Ruth as the Reversal פילגש? Utterances of Identity and Alterity   Conclusion: Earth-Keeping and People-Keeping   Appendix: Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin, an Unfinalized Life: A Brief Biography and Story of His Honorary Doctorate from Yale University  Bibliography  Index of Scriptures  Index of Subjects","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210849444183,"sku":"9789004521704","price":124.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/judges-19-21-and-ruth-canon-as-a-voice-of-answerability-9789004521704","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}