Hérons

rif. B9780814681060 — Hardback. New. A woman called blessed for killing a Canaanite general; another called “Mother in Israel” for leading troops into war; several other mothers absent when their children need them; a judge Deborah with a proper name and a recognized place for public counseling; a single woman Delilah who seduces and conquers Samson. The book of Judges features an outstanding number of women named and unnamed in family roles and also active in society mostly objects of violent dealings between men. This volume looks not only at women in their traditional roles daughter wife mother but also at how society at large deals with women and with men in war in strife and sometimes in peace. hardcover