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Katheryn Darr

Katheryn Pfisterer Darr is Professor of Hebrew Bible at the Boston University School of Theology in Boston, Massachusetts. She was a 1989 winner of Boston University’s prestigious Metcalf Award for Excellence in Teaching. She is the author of several books, essays, and articles.

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Isaiah’s Vision and the Family of God

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Katheryn Darr

Using a pragmatic, reader-orientated approach and informed by contemporary theory of metaphor and related topics, Katheryn Darr examines the meaning and functions of child and female imagery for sequential readers of the Isaiah scroll in its entirety. Having identified the associated commonplaces surrounding such tropes--a necessary task if one is to construe the figurative language of another society and culture competently--she turns specifically to rebellious child and personifie...
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Price: $45.00
Publication Date: 05/01/1994
0664251072

Far More Precious than Jewels

Perspectives on Biblical Women

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Katheryn Darr

Using interpretation from modern critical scholars, rabbis, and feminist scholars, Katheryn Darr offers a fascinating book that provides new ways of understanding the stories of four biblical women. The author studies Ruth, a foreigner from Moab who became the ancestor of Israel's King David; Sarah, who lost hope of bearing a child yet she became the mother of Isaac and the entire Hebrew nation; Hagar, who was mistreated by Sarah, her boss, yet survived under persecution; and Esther,...
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Price: $36.00
Publication Date: 09/01/1991