TY - BOOK ID - 6710331 TI - Sex, honor and power in the deuteronomistic history. A narratological and anthropological analysis PY - 1996 VL - 234 SN - 1850756406 9781850756408 PB - Sheffield : Sheffield Academic Press, DB - UniCat KW - Deuteronomistic history (Biblical criticism) KW - Sex in the Bible. KW - Narration in the Bible. KW - Narration (Rhetoric) KW - Sociology, Biblical. KW - Deuteronomistic history (Biblical criticism). KW - Sex in the Bible KW - Narration in the Bible KW - Sociology, Biblical KW - Religion KW - Philosophy & Religion KW - Judaism KW - 222.4 KW - Deuteronomium KW - Christian sociology KW - Religion and sociology KW - Narrative (Rhetoric) KW - Narrative writing KW - Rhetoric KW - Discourse analysis, Narrative KW - Narratees (Rhetoric) KW - Deuteronomic history (Biblical criticism) KW - Deuteronomists (Biblical criticism) KW - DH (Biblical criticism) KW - D document (Biblical criticism) KW - Biblical teaching KW - Bible KW - Socio-rhetorical criticism. KW - Biblia UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:6710331 AB - In this original work, Stone studies the structure and social presuppositions of several narratives from the Deuteronomistic History in which sexual activity plays a significant role. Both narratological and anthropological tools are utilized in the textual analysis. Stone interestingly notes the link between sexual activity, gender and prestige structures; the emphasis on male contest and female chastity discussed by anthropologists of honour and shame; and the role of the exchange of women in relations between men. In each story, sexual practice is primarily related to male struggles for hon ER -