Plotted, Shot, and Painted Cultural Representations of Biblical Women
JOURNAL FOR THE STUDY OF THE OLD TESTAMENT SUPPLEMENT SERIES 215 Editors David J.A. Clines Philip R. Davies Executive Editor John Jarick GENDER, CULTURE, THEORY 3 Editor J. Cheryl Exum Sheffield Academic Press This page intentionally left blank Plotted, Shot, and Painted Cultural Representations of Biblical Women J. Cheryl Exum Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement Series 215 Gender, Culture, Theory 3 for my mother Rebecca Cockrell Exum and my other mothers Lucy Cockrell, in memoriam and Margaret L. Hines Copyright © 1996 Sheffield Academic Press Published by Sheffield Academic Press Ltd Mansion House 19 Kingfield Road Sheffield SI 1 9AS England Printed on acid-free paper in Great Britain by Bookcraft Ltd Midsomer Norton, Bath British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN 1-85075-592-2 ISBN 1 85075-778-X pbk CONTENTS Preface 7 List of Figures 17 Chapter 1 BATHSHEBA PLOTTED, SHOT, AND PAINTED 19 Chapter 2 MICHAL AT THE WINDOW, MlCHAL IN THE MOVIES 54 Chapter 3 THE HAND THAT ROCKS THE CRADLE 80 Chapter 4 PROPHETIC PORNOGRAPHY 101 Chapter 5 is THIS NAOMI? 129 Chapter 6 WHY, WHY, WHY, DELILAH?+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 175 Bibliography 238 Index of References 253 Index of Authors 257 This page intentionally left blank PREFACE I had originally intended to call this book Still Amid the Alien Corn? In fact, it was previously announced by the publisher under that title, with Feminist and Cultural Studies in the Biblical Field as its subtitle. I liked having a question as a title, and I liked the cultural connections Still Amid the Alien Corn? established between the biblical book of Ruth, Keats's poem, Calderon's painting that appears on the cover, and the question my title implied; namely, whether or not, or to what extent, feminist criticism in the field of biblical studies is still, like Keats's Ruth amid the alien corn,1 considered marginal, an outsider taking up lodging within the discipline.
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