{"product_id":"death-and-dissymmetry-the-politics-of-coherence-in-the-book-of-judges-paperback","title":"Death and Dissymmetry: The Politics of Coherence in the Book of Judges - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMieke Bal\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCombining literary criticism and feminist analysis, \u003ci\u003eDeath and Dissymmetry\u003c\/i\u003e radically reinterprets not only the Book of Judges but also the tradition of its reception and understanding in the West. In Mieke Bal's account, Judges documents the Israelite culture learning to articulate itself in a decisive period of transition. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Counter to standard readings of Judges, Bal's interpretation demonstrates that the book has a political and ideological coherence in which the treatment of women plays a pivotal role. Bal concentrates here not on the assassinations and battles that rage through Judges but on the violence in the domestic lives of individual characters, particularly sexual violence directed at women. Her skillful reading reveals that murder, in this text, relates to gender and reflects a social structure that is inherently contradictory. By foregrounding the stories of women and subjecting them to subtle narrative analysis, she is able to expose a set of preoccupations that are essential to the sense of these stories but are not articulated in them. Bal thereby develops a \"countercoherence\" in conflict with the apparent emphases of Judges-the politics, wars, and historiography that have been the constant focus of commentators on the book. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003eDeath and Dissymmetry\u003c\/i\u003e makes an important contribution to the development of a feminist method of interpreting ancient texts, with consequences for religious studies, ancient history, literary theory, and gender studies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book is about the complex and fascinating relations between text and social reality. And it is about method. The development of a feminist method of interpretation of ancient texts as sources for our understanding of the history of gender-ideology and as connected to present-day culture is the underlying purpose of this voyage through the Book of Judges. This book is the conclusion of a six-year-long project, started in 1980, and the third in a series of three studies on biblical narrative.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMieke Bal\u003c\/b\u003e is professor of comparative literature and Susan B. Anthony Professor of Women's Studies at the University of Rochester. Her books include \u003ci\u003eLethal Love: Literary Feminist Interpretations of Biblical Love Stories\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMurder and Difference: Gender, Genre and Scholarship on Sisera's Death\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 319\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.81 x 9.04 x 6.08 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 15, 1988\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42757520982112,"sku":"9780226035550","price":86.92,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0598\/1922\/9280\/files\/oTCe7cIIn-9780226035550.webp?v=1779321268","url":"https:\/\/bijoucc.myshopify.com\/products\/death-and-dissymmetry-the-politics-of-coherence-in-the-book-of-judges-paperback","provider":"CARIBBEAN CONNECT","version":"1.0","type":"link"}