Gaming with Rahab and the Spies
Traditional readings of Joshua 2 cast Rahab as a clever Canaanite heroine who saves both herself and her family from God’s ban on Jericho. Such a reading re-inscribes an androcentric model of living with one’s enemy via a warrior-styled conquest. But more importantly, such an approach bypasses the r...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Fernleihe: | Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste |
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Oxford University Press
2020
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| In: |
The Oxford handbook of feminist approaches to the Hebrew Bible
Year: 2020 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Game theory
/ Rahab the Prostitute
/ Prisoner's dilemma
/ Nash equilibrium
/ Dominance
/ Strategy
/ Bible. Josua 2
/ Sexual identity
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| RelBib Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy HB Old Testament |
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