Murder and Difference

Gender, Genre, and Scholarship on Sisera's Death

• Author(s): Mieke Bal,
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Pages: 150
• ISBN_10: 0253339057
  ISBN_13: 9780253339058
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Religion / Biblical Commentary / General , Religion / Biblical Criticism & Interpretation / Old Testament , Religion / Biblical Studies / Old Testament / General ,

Description:... ..". an important contribution to current literary concerns with the ideologies of texts... " -- Society of Old Testament Study Book List ..". she points the way into as yet little-explored territory, broadly engaging literary theory as well as ideological criticism... she moves beyond both narrowly historical and exclusively text-centered criticism... " -- Theology Today ..". Bal has given us both a coruscating feminist critique of biblical scholarship and a fund of provocative exegetical insights... required reading for anyone who wants to know where serious biblical scholarship is heading." -- Shofar