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Plotted, shot, and painted : cultural representations of biblical women / J. Cheryl Exum.
Author
Exum, J. Cheryl
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
Sheffield, Eng. : Sheffield Academic Press, c1996.
Description
1 online resource (261 p.)
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Subject(s)
Bible films
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History and criticism
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Women in motion pictures
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Women in the Bible
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Women in art
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Bible
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Criticism, interpretation, etc
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Series
Gender, culture, theory ; 3.
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Journal for the study of the Old Testament. Supplement series ; 215.
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Gender, culture, theory ; 3
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Summary note
... introduces the reader to an extraordinarily rich variety of critical experiences, which far transcends the limitations of conventional biblical scholarship' (Prooftexts). This provocative collection of essays begins where Exum's earlier literary-feminist study, Fragmented Women, left off: with the questioning of the androcentric bias of the biblical text and with the aim of subverting its patriarchal perspective. It moves on to stake out new territory for feminist biblical criticism by considering what happens to biblical women in popular culture, in art, and in film and by foregrounding q
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Description based upon print version of record.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Language note
English
Contents
Contents; Preface; List of Figures; Chapter 1 BATHSHEBA PLOTTED, SHOT, AND PAINTED; Chapter 2 MICHAL AT THE WINDOW, MlCHAL IN THE MOVIES; Chapter 3 THE HAND THAT ROCKS THE CRADLE; Chapter 4 PROPHETIC PORNOGRAPHY; Chapter 5 IS THIS NAOMI?; Chapter 6 WHY, WHY, WHY, DELILAH?; Bibliography; Index of References; Index of Authors
ISBN
9786611814120
9781281814128
1281814121
9780567234292
0567234290
OCLC
283798077
893334176
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