The Harlot by The Side of The Road: Forbidden Tales of The Bible

by Jonathan Kirsch

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  ———. “On Judges 11.” In A Feminist Companion to Judges, edited by Athalya Brenner, 131-44.

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  ———. On Jewish Law and Lore. (orig. 1955). New York: Atheneum, 1981.

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  ———. The Story of King David: Genre and Interpretation. Journal for the Study of the Old Testament, Supplement Series 6. Sheffield, England: JSOT Press, 1978.

  ———. “Joshua and Judges.” In The Literary Guide to the Bible, edited by Robert Alter and Frank Kermode, 102-21.

  Hackett, Jo Ann. “In the Days of Jael: Reclaiming the History of Women.” In Immaculate and Powerful, edited by Clarissa W. Atkinson, Constance H. Buchanan, and Margaret R. Miles, 15-38.

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  Hawk, L. Daniel. “Strange Houseguests: Rahab, Lot, and the Dynamics of Deliverance.” In Reading between Texts, edited by Danna Nolan Fewell, 89-97.

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  Humphreys, W. Lee. “The Story of Jephthah and the Tragic Vision: A Response to J. Cheryl Exum.” In Signs and Wonders, edited by J. Cheryl Exum, 85-96.

  Jay, Nancy. “Sacrifice as Remedy for Having Been Born of Woman.” In Immaculate and Powerful, edited by Clarissa W. Atkinson, Constance H. Buchanan, and Margaret R. Miles, 283-309.

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  Newman, Murray L. “Rahab and the Conquest.” In Understanding the Word, edited by James T. Butler, Edgar W. Conrad, and Ben C. Ollenburger, 167-81.

  Niditch, Susan. “Eroticism and Death in the Tale of Jael.” In Gender and Difference in Ancient Israel, edited by Peggy L Day, 43-57.

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  Otwell, John H. And Sarah Laughed: The Status of Woman in the Old Testament. Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1977.

  Oz, Amos. “Upon This Evil Earth.” In Where the Jackals Howl and Other Stories. Translated by Nicholas de Lange and Philip Simpson. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1981.

  Ozick, Cynthia. Metaphor and Memory. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989.

  Pardes, Ilana. Countertraditions in the Bible: A Feminist Approach. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1992.

  Patai, Raphael. The Arab Mind. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1976.

  ———. The Hebrew Goddess. New York: Avon Books, 1978.

  Penchansky, David. “Staying the Night: Intertextuality in Genesis and Judges.” In Reading between Texts, edited by Danna Nolan Fewell, 77-97.

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  Pitt-Rivers, Julian. The Fate of Shechem, or The Politics of Sex: Essays in the Anthropology of the Mediterranean. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1977.

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  Richler, Mordecai. St. Urbain’s Horseman. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1972.

  Ridout, George. “The Rape of Tamar: A Rhetorical Analysis of 2 Sam. 13:1–22.” In Rhetorical Criticism: Essays in Honor of James Muilenburg, edited by Jared J. Jackson and Martin Kessler, 75-84. Pittsburgh: Pickwick Press, 1974.

  Rost, Leonhard. The Succession to the Throne of David. Sheffield, England: Almond Press, 1982.

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  Sheres, Ita. Dinah’s Rebellion: A Biblical Parable for Our Time. New York: Crossroad, 1990.

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  Sternberg, Meir. The Poetics of Biblical Narrative: Ideological Literature and the Drama of Reading. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1985.

  Tapp, Anne Michele. “An Ideology of Expendability: Virgin Daughter Sacrifice in Genesis 19.1-11, Judges 11.30-39, and 19.22-26.” In Anti-Covenant, edited by Mieke Bal, 158-74.

  Trible, Phyllis. Texts of Terror: Literary-Feminist Readings of Biblical Narratives. Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1984.

  Tucker, Gene M. “The Rahab Saga (Joshua 2): Some Form-Critical and Traditio-Historical Observations.” The Use of the Old Testament in the New and Other Essays, edited by James M. Efird, 66-86. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1972.

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  Scholarly Journals and Other Periodicals

  Ackerman, James S. “Knowing Good and Evil: A Literary Analysis of the Court History in 2 Samuel 9-20 and 1 Kings 1-2.” Journal of Biblical Literature 109, no. 1 (spring 1990): 41-60.

  Alexander, T. Desmond. “Lot’s Hospitality: A Clue to His Righteousness.” Journal of Biblical Literature 104, no. 2 (June 1985): 289-91.

  Alexiou, Margaret, and Peter Dronke. “The Lament of Jephthah’s Daughter: Themes, Traditions, Originality.” Studi Medievali, serie terza, anno XII, fase. 2 (1971): 819-63.

  Alter, Robert. “A Literary Approach to the Bible.” Commentary 60, no. 6 (December 1975): 70-77.

  Anderson, Francis I. “Israelite Kinship Terminology and Social Structure.” Bible Translator 20 (1969): 29-38.

  Auld, A. G. “Judges I and History: A Reconsideration.” Vetus Testamentum 25, fase. 3 (May 1975): 261-85.

  Bailey, Clinton. “How Desert Culture Helps Us Understand the Bible.” Bible Review 7, no. 4 (August 1991): 14-38.

  Biblical Archaeology Review, “Have Sodom and Gomorrah Been Found?” (September/October 1980).

  Blenkinsopp, Joseph. “Abraham and the Righteous of Sodom.” Journal of Jewish Studies 33, nos. 1-2 (spring-autumn 1982): 119-32.

  Bos, Johanna W. H. “Out of the Shadows: Genesis 38, Judges 4:17–22, Ruth 3.” Semeia 42 (1988): 37-67.

  Butler, Trent C. “An Anti-Moses Tradition,” Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 12 (May 1979): 9-15.

  Carmichael, Calum M. “A Ceremonial Crux: Removing a Man’s Sandal as a Female Gesture of Contempt,” Journal of Biblical Literature 96, no. 3 (September 1977): 321-36.

  Caspi, Mishael Maswari. “The Story of the Rape of Dinah: The Narrator and the Reader.” Hebrew Studies 26, no. 1 (1985): 25-45.

  Clements, R. E. “The Relation of Children to the People of God in the Old Testament.” Baptist Quarterly 11, no. 5 (January 1966): 195-205.

  Coats, George W. “Widow’s Rights: A Crux in the Structure of Genesis 38.” Catholic Biblical Quarterly 34, no. 4 (October 1972): 461-66.

  Cohen, Shaye J. D. “Solomon and the Daughter of Pharaoh: Intermarriage, Conversion, and the Impurity of Women.” Journal of the Ancient Near Eastern Society 16-17 (1984-1985): 23-37.

  Cooke, Gerald. “The Sons of (the) God(s).” Zeitschrift für die Alttestamentlische Wissenschaft, band 76 (1964): 24-47.

  Davis, Joseph M. “On the Idea of Covenant.” Conservative Judaism 41, no. 4 (summer 1989): 20-34.

  Emerton, J.A. “An Examination of a Recent Structuralist Interpretation of Genesis XXXVIII.” Vetus Testamentum 26, fase. 1 (1976): 79-98.

  —. “Judah and Tamar.” Vetus Testamentum 29, fase. 4 (October 1979): 403-15.

  —. “The Riddle of Genesis XIV.” Vetus Testamentum 21, fase. 4 (1971): 403-39.

  ———. “Some False Clues in the Study of Genesis XIV.” Vetus Testamentum 21, fase. 1 (1971): 24-47.

  ———. “Some Problems in Genesis XXXVIII.” Vetus Testamentum 25, fase. 3 (1975): 338-61.

  Fewell, Danna Nolan, and David M. Gunn. “Controlling Perspectives: Women, Men and the Authority of Violence in Judges 4 & 5.” Journal of the American Academy of Religion 78, no. 3 (Fall 1990): 389-412.

  ———. “Tipping the Balance: Sternberg’s Reader and the Rape of Dinah.” Journal of Biblical Literature 110, no. 2 (summer 1991): 193-211.

  Fisher, Eugene J. “Cultic Prostitution in the Ancient Near East? A Reassessment.” Biblical Theology Bulletin 6, nos. 2-3 (June-October 1976): 225-36.

  Fontaine, Carole. “The Deceptive Goddess in Ancient Near Eastern Myth: Inanna and Inaras.” Semeia 42 (1988): 84-99.

  Fuchs, Esther. “The Literary Characterization of Mothers and Sexual Politics in the Hebrew Bible.” Semeia 46 (1989): 151-66.

  ———. “Structure and
Patriarchal Functions in the Biblical Betrothal Type-Scene: Some Preliminary Notes.” Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion 3, no. 1 (spring 1987): 7-14.

  Gruber, Mayer I. “Hebrew Qedeshah and Her Canaanite and Akkadian Cognates.” Ugarit-Forschungen, band 198 (1986): 133-48.

  Harrelson, Walter, Bernhard W. Anderson, and G. Ernest Wright. “Shechem, Navel of the Land.” Biblical Archaeologist 20, no. 1 (February 1957): 2-31.