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Weapons upon her body : the female heroic in the Hebrew Bible
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ISBN: 1443845868 9781443845861 9781299659681 1299659683 9781443839808 1443839809 1243676876 9781243676870 Year: 2012 Publisher: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing,

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The biblical stories of Lot's daughters, Tamar, Ruth and Bathsheba, share much in common - singular women who are left to rely upon their own wits to achieve some measure of victory over the men around them. Scholarly interpretation of these women often reduces them to mere stock characters who inform civic notions about Israel, the perennial underdog who, like these women, achieves against great odds. Or, they reflect the trickery and moral ambiguity inherent in their line as ancestresses of...

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