Abigail, wife of David, and other ancient Oriental women / edited by Daniel Bodi.

Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • Sheffield : Sheffield Phoenix Press, [2013]
  • ©2013
Description
xiv, 127 pages ; 25 cm.

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Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (pages 107-120) and indexes.
Contents
  • The Residency of Abigail in 1 Samuel 25 and the connection between David and Abraham / André Lemaire
  • Remarriage of a princess and the 'foreign policy' of the King of Mari in the upper Habur region in the eighteenth century BCE / Michaël Guichard
  • David as an 'Apiru in 1 Samuel 25 and the pattern of seizing power in the ancient Near East / Daniel Bodi
  • Women and hospitality customs in the ancient Near East / Jean-Jacques Glassner
  • Story of David, Nabal and Abigail (1 Samuel 25) : a literary study of wordplay and names, analogies, and socially structured opposites / Moshe Garsiel
  • Was Abigail a scarlet woman? A point of Rabbinic exegesis in light of comparative material / Daniel Bodi
  • Anat and the warriors : gender definition and the ambivalence of the feminine in Ugaritic mythology / Jean-Marie Husser.
ISBN
  • 1909697044
  • 9781909697041
OCLC
862207459
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