03782nam a22002297a 4500 210716b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9780802873026 0802873022 BS1295.52 .W66 2016 Women of war, women of woe : Joshua and Judges through the eyes of nineteenth-century female biblical interpreters / edited by Marion Ann Taylor and Christiana de Groot Grand Rapids, Michigan : William Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2016. x, 278 pages ; 23 cm Includes bibliographical references and indexes 1. Rahab. Sarah Ewing Hall: a sanitized Rahab -- Susanna Haswell Rowson: is lying always wrong? -- Sarah Hale: redeeming Rahab -- Cecil Frances (Fanny) Alexander: from scarlet thread to blood drops -- Charlotte Maria Tucker: the sign of the cord -- Etty Woosnam: true conversion -- Leigh Norval: daring to be different -- Josephine Elizabeth Butler: the saving shelter of the home -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton: the question of motives -- 2. Achsah, Caleb's daughter. Lydia: Aschsah spiritually considered -- Grace Aguilar: Achsah and the age of chivalry -- Charlotte Maria Tucker: the Hebrew daughter's prayer -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton: assertiveness training - - Marianne Farningham: giving good gifts -- 3. Deborah. Grace Aguilar: superwoman -- Clara Balfour: redefining femininity -- Barbara Kellison: helpmeet and head -- Julia McNair Wright: knowledge is power -- Harriet Beecher Stowe : an inspired poet -- Elizabeth Baxter: an imperfect, but useful woman -- Clara B. Neyman: genius knows no sex -- 4. Jael. Sarah Ewing Hall: Jael's masculine resolution and cruelty -- Mary Cornwallis: using the only means in her power -- Eliza R. Stansbury Steele a mother's love -- Eliza Smith: the worst woman ever -- Emily Owen: Jael: a heroine? -- Constance de Rothschild and Annie de Rothschild: a true Hebrew woman at heart -- Harriet Beecher Stowe: the tiger, tracked, snared, and caught -- Elizabeth Jane Whately: God's executioner -- Etty Woosnam: unsexing Jael and fighting demon drink -- Anne Mercier: Deborah was wrong about Jael -- M.G.: nailing sin to the cross -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton: cold-blooded fiend Jephthah's daughter. Caroline Howard Gilman: obedient unto death -- Sarah Ewing Hall: a child protests: a mother listens -- Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck: it's all about translation -- Susanna Rowson: the American dream sacrificed -- Eliza R. Stansbury Steele: maid of Gilead, fare thee well -- Adelia C. Graves: her life bought our freedom -- Rose Terry Cooke: cursed above all women -- Cecil Frances Alexander: saintly sacrifice -- Leigh Norval : like father, like daughter -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton: a woman in the "no-name series" -- Louisa Southworth: only a girl -- 6. Manoah's wife. Grace Aguilar: conceling your superiority -- Mary Elizabeth Beck: drink milk not beer -- Edith M. Dewhurst: nameless but known -- M.G.: saintly mothers -- Clara B. Neyman: demythologizing the angel -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton: Mrs. Manoah Doe -- 7. Delilah. Mary Cornwallis: a cautionary tale -- Sarah Hale: Samson the traitor -- Harriet Beecher Stowe: Delilah the destroyer -- Ella Wheeler Wilcox: the road to sweet hell - - Clara B. Neyman: the double standard -- 8. The Levite's concubine. Mary Cornwallis: abused to death -- Josephine Butler: the weak and prostrate figure lying at our door -- Josephine Butler: cold dead hands upon our threshold Bible. Joshua Feminist criticism History 19th century Bible. Judges Feminist criticism History 19th century History. Taylor, Marion Ann, editor De Groot, Christiana, editor lcc BK 56630 56630 0 0 lcc 0 0 NFIC BOM BOM GEN 2021-07-16 Donations TBN 1600.00 2 BS1295.52 .W66 2016 066205 2026-03-21 07:45:56 2026-03-16 1 2021-07-16 BK