Rizpah: Grieving the Ungrievable (2 Sam. 21:1–14)
The brief story of Rizpah in 2 Samuel 21 has attracted little scholarly interest but carries important commentary on the exercise of David’s reign. Enlisting a conceptual framework from Judith Butler’s Precarious Life, I argue that Rizpah enacts the grieving of lives hitherto designated ungrievable...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2025
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| In: |
Biblical interpretation
Year: 2025, Volume: 33, Issue: 3, Pages: 197-214 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Rizpah
/ Bible. Samuel 2. 21,1-14
/ Butler, Judith 1956-
/ Gender
/ Gender
/ Grief
/ Funeral
/ David, Israel, König
/ Criticism
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| IxTheo Classification: | FD Contextual theology HB Old Testament |
| Further subjects: | B
Burial
B Rizpah B Gender B Mourning B Butler |
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