Gendering Wisdom the Host by McKinlay, Judith E. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Gendering Wisdom the Host: Biblical Invitations to Eat and Drink Contents Abbreviations Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1 IN SEARCH OF ANCESTRY

Asherah and the Deuteronomists The Inscriptional Evidence Asherah in Israel

Chapter 2 PROVERBS 9.1-6, 13-18

Excursus: The Metaphorical Tool The Poem of Proverbs 9.1-6 Listening for Echoes and Searching for Clues to Meaning The Mirror Poem of Proverbs 9.13-18 The Gender Code of the Double Poem Strategies of Reading to Meet the Strategies of the Text

Chapter 3 PROVERBS 9.7-12 AND OTHER WISDOM POEMS

Verses 7-12 Proverbs 1.20-33 Proverbs 3.13-21 Proverbs 4.4b-9 Proverbs 8 The Yahweh Relationship

Chapter 4 FOLLY IN THE COMPANY OF OTHER WOMEN

The Woman of Proverbs 2.16-19 The Warnings of Chapter Five Proverbs 6.20-35 The Warnings of Proverbs 7 Defining the Category The Implications and Countering Strategy

Chapter 5 WOMEN IN PROVERBS

Women's Teaching Role Mother/Father Parallelism in the Later Chapters Woman as Wife in Proverbs 1-9: Chapter 5 as Example The Positive View of Women as Wives Women as Wives or Women as Women The Negative View The Woman of Proverbs 31.10-31 Is the Woman of Proverbs 31 Wisdom in Human Form? Conclusions about Correlations

Chapter 6 THE WISDOM OF BEN SIRA

Chapter 24 Wisdom in 15.3 Wisdom Poems in Chapters 1, 4 and 6 The Sage of Chapter 39 The Hymn of the Ancestors The Wisdom Poem of 51.13-30 Conclusion

Chapter 7 WOMEN IN BEN SIRA

Mothers and Daughters Wives and/or Women Conclusion

Chapter 8 ON THE QUEST OF THE FEMININE IN JOHN 4

A Wisdom Reading of John 4 A Patriarchal Reading The Possibility of a Moses Reading The Issue of Multiple Traditions A Reading of Verses 31-42 Following Multiple Traditions Conclusion

Chapter 9 WOMEN IN JOHN'S GOSPEL

John 4.4-42 John 2.1-12 John 19.25-27 John 11.1-45 John 12.1-8 John 20.1-18 Conclusions

Chapter 10 SOME IMPLICATIONS Select Bibliography Index of References Index of Authors

A B C D E F G H J K L M N O P Q R S T W Y Z

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