Lot's Daughters Sex, Redemption, and Women's Quest for Authority |
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| Author:
| Polhemus, Robert M. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8047-5051-6 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2005 |
| Publisher: | Stanford University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $45.00 |
Book Description:
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Lot's Daughters explores the relationship of fathers and daughters and of older men and younger females in history, life, art, and culture. This ambitious, daringly original book shows how humanity has remembered and been formed by Lot's daughters--how the shocking biblical text describing the crucial relationship between that patriarch and his daughters has haunted the human imagination and shaped history and behavior right down to the present.
Lot's Daughters explores the relationship of fathers and daughters and of older men and younger females in history, life, art, and culture. This ambitious, daringly original book shows how humanity has remembered and been formed by Lot's daughters--how the shocking biblical text describing the crucial relationship between that patriarch and his daughters has haunted the human imagination and shaped history and behavior right down to the present.