Judges 19-21 and Ruth : : Canon as a Voice of Answerability / / Jennifer M. Matheny.
Judges 19–21 is filled with sexual violence, silent victims, and the lack of an ethical response. Utilizing a Bakhtinian-canonical perspective, this book seeks alternative canonical voices of answerability and non-violence through dialogue with the book of Ruth.
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Place / Publishing House: | Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2022. |
Year of Publication: | 2022 |
Edition: | 1st ed. |
Language: | English |
Series: | Biblical Interpretation Series ;
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (294 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Figures and Tables
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Judges 19-21 and Ruth in Canonical Dialogue
- Canon and Answerability
- Reading Silence
- Outline of the Book
- Chapter 2 The Answerability of Canon
- A Voice for the Voiceless in Judges 19-21
- The Polyphonic Nature of Canon
- On the Quest for a Voice: Discovering the Utterance
- The Chronotopes
- Canon as a Voice of Answerability
- The Use of נתח as a Voice of Canonical Answerability
- נתח in the Pentateuch and Deuteronomistic History
- DH: Kings and Samuel (נתח in the Parallel Passage in 1 Samuel 11:7)
- נתח in a Prophetic משל: Ezekiel 24
- נתח as Canonical Answerability of Judges
- Conclusion
- Chapter 3 Judges 19-21 as a Dialogic משל
- Understanding Judges 19-21 as a Dialogic משל
- Bakhtin's Voice in the Dialogue of Genre
- Dialogic משל
- Breadth of Meaning
- Two Examples from 2 Samuel and One Example from Judges
- To "I.D." a Body of Literature: An Unfinalized Threshold
- The Instrument of Dismemberment: המאכלת
- Thresholds: סף and מפתן
- Parallel Texts of Violence: Judges 19, 1 Samuel 11 and a Mari Royal Document
- Conclusion
- Chapter 4 Haunted Dialogue
- Utterances of the Mute and Mutilated (Judges 20 and 21)
- If There Was "No King in Israel," Who Is in Charge?
- Not a King but Acting like One
- The Account of this Evil
- The Reported Speech of the Levite
- The Woman, the One Slain
- Unity at Mizpah
- Sons of Worthlessness-My Brother?
- Name-Dropping as Theological-Political Symbols: The Ark of the Covenant of God and Phinehas
- Mizpah: Oaths and Weeping
- Conclusion
- Chapter 5 חרם in Canonical Dialogue
- Thresholds of No Return: חרם
- חרם as a Function of Grotesque Realism
- Achan and Rahab: Who is Truly חרם in Joshua?
- Narrative Setting
- חרם: Why All the Fuss?
- חרם in Judges.
- Blotted Out: Progenitive Problems Answered by Stolen Possessions
- Filling the Breach
- Canonical Answerability for the Silent?
- Conclusion
- Chapter 6 Ruth's Chronotope in the Canon
- Ruth as a Traveling Text
- Ruth as a Threshold Text
- Dating of Ruth
- Ruth's Chronotope in the Canons
- Form, Function, and the Dialogic Nature of Genre
- Previous Scholarship on the Genre of Ruth
- A New Way Forward: Ruth's Function as a Dialogic משל
- Ruth as a Dialogic משל and a Voice of Canonical Answerability
- Answerability as a Feature of Dialogism: Ruth and Tamar
- Conclusion
- Chapter 7 The Answerability of Borders and Identity
- Ruth 1: The Dialogical Nature of Names
- Women in Relational Answerability: Naomi, Orpah and Ruth (Ruth 1)
- The Chronotope of Borders: Between and in between Moab and Bethlehem
- Borders of Ethnicity
- Naomi, Ruth and Orpah: Relational Answerability
- Naomi's Lament
- Intertextual Utterances
- Conclusion
- Chapter 8 Chronotope Encounters in Ruth 2 and 3
- Chronotopes of Field and Threshing Floor
- The Chronotope of Encounter
- Encounter with Boaz: A Dialogue of Identity
- Ruth's Response: Speak to the Heart
- Canonical Answerability: Genesis 19 and Ruth 2
- Chronotope of Encounter: The Threshing Floor
- Ruth 3:9 in Canonical Dialogue with the Torah: Violator or Creative Agent?
- Midnight Motif
- The Foot
- Wings
- The Double Request
- Foreign Women in the Canonical Dialogue of Identity
- Conclusion
- Chapter 9 Progentitive Problems in Ruth 4
- Progenitive Problems Answered by Purchased Possessions
- Chronotope of Encounter: The City Gate
- Boaz, the Elders and the Kinsman-Redeemer
- Wife of the Dead
- The Sandal
- Canonical Answerability for the Silent
- Ruth's Loophole of Identity
- The Women of Bethlehem: A Voice of Answerability for Ruth and Naomi.
- The Canonical Dialogue of חסד in Ruth
- Ruth Embodies חסד Towards Naomi
- Genealogy (4:18-21)
- The Dialogic Encounter of Law and Narrative
- Conclusion
- Chapter 10 Judges 19-21 and Ruth in Dialogue
- Ruth as a Voice of Canonical Answerability
- Ruth and Judges as a Dialogic משל
- Idioms in Dialogue: נשא אשה (Judges 21:23
- Ruth 1:4) and דבר על־לב (Judges 19:3
- Ruth 2:13)
- A Dialogue of Identity: The Women in Judges 19-21 and Ruth
- Oaths in Dialogue
- Ruth as the Reversal פילגש? Utterances of Identity and Alterity
- Conclusion: Earth-Keeping and People-Keeping
- Appendix: Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin, an Unfinalized Life: A Brief Biography and Story of His Honorary Doctorate from Yale University
- Bibliography
- Index of Scriptures
- Index of Subjects.