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Previous scholarship hints at the connection between Judges 19–21 and Ruth (as set in dialogue), but there has yet to be a study to articulate this relationship. Through a Bakhtinian-canonical perspective, a comparative analysis of these texts unveils intertextual correlations. Lexical and thematic connections include shared idioms, contrasting themes of חרם (“ban”) andחסד (“loving–kindness,” “covenant–faithfulness”), silence and speech, abuse and potential for abuse, gendered violence and feminine agency. This case-study reveals that Ruth, as a text and as a woman, embodies a voice of answerability to the silenced and abused women in Judges 19–21

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Author:   Jennifer M. Matheny
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   200
Weight:   0.617kg
ISBN:  

9789004521704

ISBN 10:   9004521704
Pages:   282
Publication Date:   04 August 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments List of Figures and Tables 1 Introduction  Judges 19–21 and Ruth in Canonical Dialogue  Canon and Answerability  Reading Silence  Outline of the Book 2 The Answerability of Canon  A Voice for the Voiceless in Judges 19–21  The Polyphonic Nature of Canon  On the Quest for a Voice: Discovering the Utterance  The Chronotopes  Canon as a Voice of Answerability  The Use of נתח as a Voice of Canonical Answerability  Conclusion 3 Judges 19–21 as a Dialogic משל  Understanding Judges 19–21 as a Dialogic משל  Bakhtin’s Voice in the Dialogue of Genre  Dialogic משל  To “I.D.” a Body of Literature: An Unfinalized Threshold  The Instrument of Dismemberment: המאכלת  Thresholds: סף and מפתן  Conclusion 4 Haunted Dialogue  Utterances of the Mute and Mutilated (Judges 20 and 21)  If There Was “No King in Israel,” Who Is in Charge?  Not a King but Acting Like One  The Account of this Evil  The Reported Speech of the Levite  The Woman, the One Slain  Unity at Mizpah  Sons of Worthlessness—My Brother?  Name-Dropping as Theological-Political Symbols: The Ark of the Covenant of God and Phinehas  Mizpah: Oaths and Weeping  Conclusion 5 חרם in Canonical Dialogue  Thresholds of No Return: חרם  חרם as a Function of Grotesque Realism  Achan and Rahab: Who is Truly חרם in Joshua?  Narrative Setting  חרם: Why All the Fuss?  Canonical Answerability for the Silent?  Conclusion 6 Ruth’s Chronotope in the Canon  Ruth as a Traveling Text  Ruth as a Threshold Text  Dating of Ruth  Ruth’s Chronotope in the Canons  Form, Function, and the Dialogic Nature of Genre  Previous Scholarship on the Genre of Ruth  A New Way Forward: Ruth’s Function as a Dialogic משל  Ruth as a Dialogic משל and a Voice of Canonical Answerability  Answerability as a Feature of the Dialogism: Ruth and Tamar  Conclusion 7 The Answerability of Borders and Identity  Ruth 1: The Dialogical Nature of Names  Women in Relational Answerability: Naomi, Orpah and Ruth (Ruth 1)  The Chronotope of Borders: Between and in between Moab and Bethlehem  Borders of Ethnicity  Naomi, Ruth and Orpah: Relational Answerability  Naomi’s Lament  Intertextual Utterances  Conclusion 8 Chronotope Encounters in Ruth 2 and 3  Chronotopes of Field and Threshing Floor  The Chronotope of Encounter  Encounter with Boaz: A Dialogue of Identity  Ruth’s Response: Speak to the Heart  Canonical Answerability: Genesis 19 and Ruth 2  Chronotope of Encounter: The Threshing Floor  Ruth 3:9 in Canonical Dialogue with the Torah: Violator or Creative Agent?  Foreign Women in the Canonical Dialogue of Identity  Conclusion 9 Progentitive Problems in Ruth 4  Progenitive Problems Answered by Purchased Possessions  Chronotope of Encounter: The City Gate  Canonical Answerability for the Silent  Ruth’s Loophole of Identity  The Women of Bethlehem: A Voice of Answerability for Ruth and Naomi  The Canonical Dialogue of חסד in Ruth  Ruth Embodies חסד Towards Naomi  The Dialogic Encounter of Law and Narrative  Conclusion 10 Judges 19–21 and Ruth in Dialogue  Ruth as a Voice of Canonical Answerability  Ruth and Judges as a Dialogic משל  Idioms in Dialogue: נשא אשה (Judges 21:23; Ruth 1:4) and דבר על־לב (Judges 19:3; Ruth 2:13)  A Dialogue of Identity: The Women in Judges 19–21 and Ruth  Oaths in Dialogue  Ruth as the Reversal פילגש? Utterances of Identity and Alterity  Conclusion: Earth-Keeping and People-Keeping Appendix: Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin, an Unfinalized Life: A Brief Biography and Story of His Honorary Doctorate from Yale University Bibliography Index of Scriptures Index of Subjects

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Jennifer M. Matheny, PhD (2021), University of Kent (Canterbury, UK), is Assistant Professor of Old Testament at Nazarene Theological Seminary (Kansas City, MO).

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