Fathers and Daughters in the Hebrew Bible by Johanna Stiebert

By Johanna Stiebert

The father-daughter dyad positive aspects within the Hebrew Bible in all of narratives, legislation, myths and metaphors. In prior explorations of this courting, the tendency has been to target discrete tales - striking between them, Judges eleven (the tale of Jephthah's human sacrifice of his daughter) and Genesis 19 (the darkish story of Lot's daughters' seduction in their father). by way of taking the complete spectrum under consideration, even though, the daughter emerges prominently as (not in basic terms) expendable and exploitable (as an emphasis on daughter sacrifice or incest has prompt) yet as loved and guarded through her father. Depictions of daughters are multifarious and there's a stability of very confident and extremely unfavourable photos.

While no longer uncritical of previous feminist investigations, this booklet makes a contribution to feminist biblical feedback and makes use of equipment drawn from the social sciences and psychoanalysis. along cautious textual research, Johanna Stiebert deals a serious evaluate of the heuristic usefulness of the ethnographic honour-shame version, of parallels with Roman relatives experiences, and of the applying and that means of 'patriarchy'.

Following semantic research of the first Hebrew phrases for 'father' (אב) and 'daughter' (בת), in addition to cautious exam of inter-family dynamics and the daughter's function vis-a-vis the son's, along thorough research of either Judges eleven and Genesis 19, and likewise of the metaphor of God-the-father of daughters Eve, knowledge and Zion, Stiebert presents the fullest exploration of daughters within the Hebrew Bible up to now.

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The protection of one’s family members, including 53 Possibly, as Richard Saller has argued of the Roman context, the disobedience of one’s own children was deemed unnatural, because it is contrary to pietas (familial piety). Pietas, while not expressed symmetrically, constitutes reciprocal and nonexploitative feelings between members of the nuclear family. Such piety, deemed natural within the nuclear family, was not, however, expected of slaves, whose disobedience, therefore, is not perceived as unnatural.

57 See Robert P. Carroll, ‘The Myth of the Empty Land’, Semeia, 59 (1992): 79–93. 54 1 The Father and his Daughter This chapter investigates fathers and daughters of the Hebrew Bible in two distinct parts. The first part summarizes the range of meanings of the primary Hebrew words for father (‫ )אב‬and daughter (‫)בת‬, including major compound expressions (such as ‫בית אב‬, ‘house of the father’ and ‫‘ בנות‬daughters of . . ’ + a country/city). This semantic exploration indicates a variety of both denotations and connotations of these terms.

G. g. g. Deut 8:5; 2 Sam 7:14-15; Ps 103:13). 6 Moreover, whether divine or human, fatherhood is, as Jack Miles puts it, absolute and unconditional: ‘[t]he father of a son cannot, in the nature of things, cease to be such. If the father disinherits the son, he is the father of a disinherited son. If he slays him, he is the father of a slain son. ’7 And this is true as much of a father of daughters as of a father of sons. The indissolubility of the paternal bond may well have appealed to the biblical writers appropriating the father-metaphor for God and his (sometimes rocky) relationship with his people.

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