Lethal Love: Feminist Literary Readings of Biblical Love Stories
by Mieke Bal
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- Paperback
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- ISBN 10
- 0253333237
- ISBN 13
- 9780253333230
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Indiana Studies in Biblical Literature. Revised translation of "Femmes imaginaires: l'Ancien Testament au risque d'une narratologie critique" (HES, 1986). Second printing. Softcover volume, measuring approximately 6.25" x 9.25", displays mild shelfwear, with lightly bumped lower outside corner. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and bright. vii/141 pages.
""Lethal Love" is, in Mieke Bal's words, "first and foremost a study of biblical love stories and how we read them." Bal reads five familiar love stories from the Bible -- David and Bathsheba, Samson and Delilah, Ruth and Boaz, Judah and Tamar, and Adam and Eve. -- differently. In the past, readings of these stories have represented woman' love as lethal -- women are victimizers to be avoided lest one be killed by their love. Ball calls into question these interpretations of the past, revealinga patriarchal ideology of nterpretation that has dominated.Borrowing interpretive tools from semiotics and pyschoanalysis, Bal deconstructs this dominant ideology by stressing the different -- the multivalent, heterogeneous meanings possible when one pays close attention to the text. Her powerful, exciting interpretations resonate deeply and raise new possibilities for the ways we read the love stories of the Bible."
""Lethal Love" is, in Mieke Bal's words, "first and foremost a study of biblical love stories and how we read them." Bal reads five familiar love stories from the Bible -- David and Bathsheba, Samson and Delilah, Ruth and Boaz, Judah and Tamar, and Adam and Eve. -- differently. In the past, readings of these stories have represented woman' love as lethal -- women are victimizers to be avoided lest one be killed by their love. Ball calls into question these interpretations of the past, revealinga patriarchal ideology of nterpretation that has dominated.Borrowing interpretive tools from semiotics and pyschoanalysis, Bal deconstructs this dominant ideology by stressing the different -- the multivalent, heterogeneous meanings possible when one pays close attention to the text. Her powerful, exciting interpretations resonate deeply and raise new possibilities for the ways we read the love stories of the Bible."
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- Lethal Love: Feminist Literary Readings of Biblical Love Stories
- Author
- Mieke Bal
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
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- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0253333237
- ISBN 13
- 9780253333230
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press
- Date Published
- 1987
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