Bathsheba in Contemporary Romance Novels

The biblical texts about Bathsheba have notorious gaps, even by the laconic standards of Hebrew narrative. Post-biblical receptions of the story flesh out the terse chapters of 2 Samuel 11–12 and 1 Kings 1–2, ascribing feelings and motives to Bathsheba and David that are not contained in the Hebrew...

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1. VerfasserIn: Koenig, Sara M. (VerfasserIn)
Medienart: Elektronisch Aufsatz
Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: Oxford University Press 2020
In: The Oxford handbook of feminist approaches to the Hebrew Bible
Jahr: 2020
normierte Schlagwort(-folgen):B Batseba, Biblische Person / David, Israel, König / Rezeption / Feministin / Macht / Opfer (Religion) / Romanze / Bibel. Samuel 2. 11-12 / Bibel. Könige 1. 1-2
RelBib Classification:AD Religionssoziologie; Religionspolitik
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Zusammenfassung:The biblical texts about Bathsheba have notorious gaps, even by the laconic standards of Hebrew narrative. Post-biblical receptions of the story flesh out the terse chapters of 2 Samuel 11–12 and 1 Kings 1–2, ascribing feelings and motives to Bathsheba and David that are not contained in the Hebrew text. This essay examines the intersection of reception history and feminist biblical scholarship by considering eleven novels about Bathsheba from the twentieth and twenty-first century. These novels expand Bathsheba’s character beyond the text, but in fairly gender stereotypical ways, such that feminist readers of the novels may be left wanting more.
ISBN:0190462698
Enthält:Enthalten in: The Oxford handbook of feminist approaches to the Hebrew Bible
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190462673.013.42