Reading Women's Stories: Female Characters in the Hebrew Bible

Literary criticism has developed as one of the most important and evocative methods for interpreting biblical narratives. John Petersen delves deeply into three stories of women in the Hebrew Bible (Hannah Deborah and Tamar) and explores issues of reading character plot and point of view. By addressing these concepts in depth and with subtlety he is able to show how human experience is depicted using a variety of structuring focusing and interpretive devices. Beyond analyzing these narratives he teaches readers how to get more out of every biblical story they read.