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Author Benjamin, Don C.

Title The Social World of Deuteronomy : a New Feminist Commentary
Published Eugene : Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2015

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Description 1 online resource (298 pages)
Contents Pages:1 to 25; Pages:26 to 50; Pages:51 to 75; Pages:76 to 100; Pages:101 to 125; Pages:126 to 150; Pages:151 to 175; Pages:176 to 200; Pages:201 to 225; Pages:226 to 250; Pages:251 to 275; Pages:276 to 298
Summary Includes samples of work by others who have influenced the author's work, including John W. Baker, Betty Campbell, M. Daniel Carroll R., Florence Morgan Gillman, Laura Kelley, Christie K.K. Leung, Victor H. Matthews, Gina Messina-Dysert, Francoise Mirguet, Beth Alpert Nakhai, Carolyn Pressler, Leah Sarat, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The book of Deuteronomy is not an orphan. It belongs to a diverse family of legal traditions and cultures in the world of the Bible. The Social World of Deuteronomy: A New Feminist Commentary brings these traditions and cultures to life, and uses them to enrich our understanding and appreciation of Deuteronomy today. Benjamin uses social-scientific criticism to reconstruct the social institutions where Deuteronomy developed, and those that appear in its traditions. He uses feminist criticism to better understand and appreciate how powerful elite males in Deuteronomy view not only the women, mo
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SUBJECT Bible. Deuteronomy -- Feminist criticism
Bible. Deuteronomy -- Social scientific criticism
Bible. Deuteronomy fast
Subject Sociology, Biblical.
Social scientific criticism of sacred works
Feminist criticism
Sociology, Biblical
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781498228701
1498228704