Judges 19-21 and Ruth : : Canon as a Voice of Answerability /

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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Superior document:Biblical Interpretation Series ; 200
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Matheny, Jennifer M.,
Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2022.
Year of Publication:2022
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Biblical Interpretation Series ; 200.
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.

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