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This accessible, readable book looks at the cultural study of the Bible. Using the stories of the 'wicked' literary figures in the Bible - the wife of Potiphar, Bathsheba, Delilah and Salome - Bach challenges the traditional mode of reading the women in the Bible.

Table of Contents
List of illustrations; Acknowledgemetns; 1. Signs of the flesh; 2. Contending with the narrator; 3. A story of reading the story of Genesis 39; 4. 'I shall stir up thy mistress against thee'; 5. Signs of her flesh; 6. Wine, women and death; 7. Calling the shots: directing Salomé's dance of death; Bibliography; Index of references; General index.

Women Seduction and Betrayal in Biblical Narrative

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      Publisher: Cambridge University Press
      Publication Date: 8/28/1997 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780521475600, 978-0521475600
      ISBN10: 0521475600
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      Criticism and exegesis of sacred texts

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This accessible, readable book looks at the cultural study of the Bible. Using the stories of the 'wicked' literary figures in the Bible - the wife of Potiphar, Bathsheba, Delilah and Salome - Bach challenges the traditional mode of reading the women in the Bible.

      Table of Contents
      List of illustrations; Acknowledgemetns; 1. Signs of the flesh; 2. Contending with the narrator; 3. A story of reading the story of Genesis 39; 4. 'I shall stir up thy mistress against thee'; 5. Signs of her flesh; 6. Wine, women and death; 7. Calling the shots: directing Salomé's dance of death; Bibliography; Index of references; General index.

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