Author: Bal, Mieke
Title: Death & Dissymmetry: The Politics of Coherence in the Book of Judges
Description: Chicago / London, University of Chicago Press, (1988). orig.cloth. 24x15cm, xii, 312 pp. Minor rubbing, VG. ¶ Contents: The Coherence of Politics & the Politics of Coherence; Virginity & Entanglement; Virginity Scattered; Violence & the Sacred: Contribution to the Ethnography of Fatherhood; The Scandal of the Speaking Body: From Speech-act to Body Language; The Architecture of Unhomeliness; The Displacement of the Mother; Conclusion; Appendices: A Model for Narratological Analysis; Notes on Language.

Keywords: Old Testament Exegesis, Biblical Criticism, Critical Theory, Book of Judges, Jewish Theology, Judaism Literary, Theological Bible, History of Religion, Narratology Women