Fathers and Daughters in the Hebrew Bible

by Johanna Stiebert

The father-daughter dyad features in the Hebrew Bible in all of narratives, laws, myths and metaphors. In previous explorations of this relationship, the tendency has been to focus on discrete stories - notable among them, Judges 11 (the story of Jephthah's human sacrifice of his daughter) and Genesis 19 (the dark tale of Lot's daughters' seduction of their father). By taking the full spectrum into account, however, the daughter emerges prominently...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199673829
• ISBN13: 9780199673827
• Release Date: May 2013
• Publisher: Oxford University Press (UK)
• Length: 278 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.5"