1 Samuel : A Conceptual Feminist Interpretation

female characters as mothers, wives, daughters, unnamed women, and witch.Most feminist biblical criticism has centered on female figures in the Bible or reconstructing the situations of women in that world. This work is different: It focuses on the convergence of gender relations, geopolitics, emerging nationalisms, and archaeology and history both then and now, in the world of the text and in the interpreter's own world. Equally alert to the telling details and the unquestioned assumptions of our reading, the result is a fully critical and radically self-aware encounter with the text, its context, and its reverberations in our own day.Scholz's strikingly insightful analysis sets a new standard for interpreting 1 Samuel and indeed for approaching biblical studies. [Publisher's Text]