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Oxford University Press, USA
Sex and Slaughter in the Tent of Jael: A Cultural History of a Biblical Story
Sex and Slaughter in the Tent of Jael: A Cultural History of a Biblical Story
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In the Hebrew Bible, Judges 4-5 tells the lurid story of the heroic figure of Jael, the formidable woman who saves Israel from the Canaanite army by seducing their general, Sisera, and then nailing his head to the ground with a tent-peg. Once separated from its original theological context,
the Jael and Sisera tradition transforms into a story about gender identity and conflict between the sexes. This gruesome tale has long intrigued scholars and artists alike, repeatedly and creatively building on its gendered themes. In Sex and Slaughter in the Tent of Jael, Colleen Conway offers the first sustained look at how this biblical tradition has been used artistically to articulate and inform cultural debates about gender. She traces the cultural retellings of this story in poems, prints, paintings, plays, and
narratives across centuries. Conway examines the ways in which Jael has been reimagined by turns as a wily seductress, passionate lover, frustrated and bored mother, peace-bringing earth goddess, and deadly cyborg assassin. Meanwhile, Sisera variously plays the enemy general, the seduced lover, the
noble but tragically duped victim, and the violent male chauvinist. Ultimately, Conway's analyses demonstrate how cultural productions of this ancient text intersect with broader conversations about the often conflicted, and sometimes violent, relationship between the sexes.
Author: Colleen M. Conway
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 10/31/2016
Pages: 232
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.10w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780190626877
the Jael and Sisera tradition transforms into a story about gender identity and conflict between the sexes. This gruesome tale has long intrigued scholars and artists alike, repeatedly and creatively building on its gendered themes. In Sex and Slaughter in the Tent of Jael, Colleen Conway offers the first sustained look at how this biblical tradition has been used artistically to articulate and inform cultural debates about gender. She traces the cultural retellings of this story in poems, prints, paintings, plays, and
narratives across centuries. Conway examines the ways in which Jael has been reimagined by turns as a wily seductress, passionate lover, frustrated and bored mother, peace-bringing earth goddess, and deadly cyborg assassin. Meanwhile, Sisera variously plays the enemy general, the seduced lover, the
noble but tragically duped victim, and the violent male chauvinist. Ultimately, Conway's analyses demonstrate how cultural productions of this ancient text intersect with broader conversations about the often conflicted, and sometimes violent, relationship between the sexes.
Author: Colleen M. Conway
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 10/31/2016
Pages: 232
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.10w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780190626877
About the Author
Dr. Colleen M. Conway is Professor of Religion at Seton Hall University. She is the author of Behold the Man: Jesus and Greco-Roman Masculinity (Oxford University Press, 2008) and numerous articles on gender construction in the New Testament.
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