Murder and Difference Gender, Genre, and Scholarship on Siseras Death [Paperback]

... an important contribution to current literary concerns with the ideologies of texts... Society of Old Testament Study Book List

... she points the way into as yet little-explored territory, broadly engaging literary theory as well as ideological criticism... she moves beyond both narrowly historical and exclusively text-centered criticism... Theology Today

... Bal has given us both a coruscating feminist critique of biblical scholarship and a fund of provocative exegetical insights... required reading for anyone who wants to know where serious biblical scholarship is heading. Shofar

Preface
The Object
Introduction

I. DISCIPLINARY CODES
1. The Historical Code
The History of the Texts
The History of the People
Connoted History
2.The Theological Code
THe use of the Theological Code
Religious Codes
3. The Anthropological Code
The Concept of Judge
The Ethnographic Context
The Oral Code
4.The Literary Code
The Polemic Lyric Code
The Nonpolemic Lyric Code
The Narratological Code
The Aesthetic Literary Code

II. TRANSDISCIPLINARY CODES
5. The Thematic Code
Closing and Opening of Thematics
The Theme as Starting Point
The Thematic Code at Work
The Thematic Code as Censor
The Code as Method
6.The Gender Code
The Gendered Subject
The Gender Code and the Narrarive
The Gender Code and the Song

Conclusion
References
Index