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Lethal Love : Feminist Literary Readings of Biblical Love Stories Indiana Studies in Biblical Literature
author
:
Bal, Mieke.
publisher
:
Indiana University Press
isbn10 | asin
:
0253333237
print isbn13
:
9780253333230
ebook isbn13
:
9780585019635
language
:
English
subject
Women in the Bible, Bible--Hermeneutics, Criticism, Bible--Feminist criticism, Bible and feminism.
publication date
:
1987
lcc
:
BS575.B2913 1987eb
ddc
:
220.6/088042
subject
:
Women in the Bible, Bible--Hermeneutics, Criticism, Bible--Feminist criticism, Bible and feminism.
Page ii
Indiana Studies in Biblical Literature
Herbert Marks and Robert Polzin, general editors
Page iii
LETHAL LOVE
Feminist Literary Readings of Biblical Love Stories
MIEKE BAL
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS BLOOMINGTON & INDIANAPOLIS
Page iv
For Suzanne Koster
1987 by Mieke Bal All rights reserved
No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. The Association of American University Presses' Resolution on Permissions constitutes the only exception to this prohibition.
Manufactured in the United States of America
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Bal, Mieke, 1946 Lethal love.
(Indiana studies in biblical literature) Translation of: Femmes imaginaires. Bibliography: p. Includes index. 1. Women in the Bible. 2. BibleHermeneutics. 3. Criticism. 4. Bible and feminism. I. Title. II. Series. BS575.B29131987220.6'08804286-45592 ISBN 0-253-33323-7 ISBN 0-253-20434-8 (pbk.)
3 4 5 6 7 97 96 95 94 93
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CONTENTS
Preface
vii
Introduction
1
1.
The Emergence of the Lethal Woman, or the Use of Hermeneutic Models
10
Pregnancy and the Limits of Power
10
The Use of Interpretation
11
The Use of Form
15
The Use of Frame-Theory
17
The Use of Narratology
20
The Use of the Text
21
The Use of Symmetry
23
The Use of Frames
26
The Use of the Subject
28
The Use of Competition
35
2.
Delilah Decomposed: Samson's Talking Cure and the Rhetoric of Subjectivity
37
Reading Heroe
37
Questions Asked and Problems Revealed
38
The Emergence of the Hero
41
Samson and Delilah
49
Samson's Death
58
Who Is Samson?
63
Samson, Patriarchy, and Social Reality
65
3.
Heroism and Proper Names, or the Fruits of Analogy
68
Balancing the Tension
68
Starting from a Detail
69
Narrativization of the Proper Name
73
In Search of the Subject
77
In Search of Foundations, or the Subjects versus the Law
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