Genesis and family values

Journal of Biblical Literature

Volumn 124, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 5-23

  Petersen, David L ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 61449375200     PISSN: 00219231     EISSN: 19343876     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/30040988     Document Type: Article

References (27)

1. Jay Newman, Biblical Religion and Family Values: A Problem in the Philosophy of Culture (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2001), 14
2. See www.family.org/welcome/aboutof
3. Bryan Turner, "Religion, Romantic Love, and the Family," in The Blackwell Companion to the Sociology of Family (ed. Jacqueline Scott, Judith Treas, and Martin Richards; Oxford: Blackwell, 2004), 299
4. Though much of this discussion of "family" involves literary analysis, one must attend to the concrete realities of family life in ancient Israel. Basic resources for this study include Lawrence Stager, "The Archaeology of the Family in Ancient Israel," BASOR 260 (1985): 1-35
5. Leo Perdue, Joseph Blenkinsopp, John Collins, and Carol Meyers, Families in Ancient Israel (Family, Religion, and Culture; Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 1997)
6. Ronald Simkins, "Family in the Political Economy of Monarchic Judah," Bible and Critical Theory [Monash University Press], www.epress.monash.edu (2004, paper no. BC040006)
7. For a discussion, see Erhard Blum, Die Komposition der Vätergeschichte (WMANT 57; Neukirchen-Vluyn: Neukirchener Verlag, 1984). 350-53
8. Patrick Miller, "Syntax and Theology in Genesis XII 3a," VT 34 (1984): 472-76
9. Claus Westermann, Genesis 12-36 (Minneapolis: Augsburg, 1985), 151-52
10. Naomi Steinberg, "The Genealogical Framework of the Family Stories in Genesis," Semeia 46 (1989): 41-50
11. Elizabeth Stone, Black Sheep and Kissing Cousins: How Our Family Stories Shape Us (New York: Times Books, 1988)
12. It is important to distinguish between the Icelandic word saga and the German word Sage. The latter achieved primacy in Hermann Gunkel's analysis of the short narratives in Genesis and was, unfortunately, often translated into English as "legend." For a brief discussion of the terminological problems, see Robert Neff, "Saga," in Saga, Legend, Tale, Novella, Fable: Narrative Forms in Old Testament Literature (ed. George Coats; JSOTSup 35; Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1985), 17-32
13. André Jolles, Einfache Formen (Halle: Niemeyer, 1930), 71-75
14. Jolles as quoted in Claus Westennann, The Promises to the Fathers: Studies on the Patriar chal Literature (Philadelphia: Fortress, 1979), 33
15. Westermann, Promises to the Fathers, 33
16. The phrase is used by Robert Kellog, "Introduction," in Complete Sagas of the Icelanders, 1:xxx
17. Yi-Ling Ru, The Family Novel: Toward a Generic Definition (American University Studies; Series 19, General Literature 28; New York: Peter Lang, 1992). Her thesis is based on cross-cultural work, primarily novels from England, France, and China
18. On household religion, see Karel van der Toorn, Family Religion in Babylonia, Ugarit, and Israel: Continuity and Change in the Forms of Religious Life (SHCANE 7; Leiden: Brill, 1996) 181-265
19. Scholars differ in their analysis of the values at work in these episodes. On Genesis 21, see, e.g., Phyllis Trible, Texts of Terror: Literary-Feminist Readings of Biblical Narratives (OBT; Philadelphia: Fortress, 1984), 20-29, who deems Hagar to have been subject to terrible oppression
20. and Savina Teubal, Hagar the Egyptian: The Lost Tradition of the Matriarchs (San Francisco: Harper and Row, 1990), who argues that Hagar was ultimately liberated
21. So, e.g., Louise A. Tilley and Miriam Cohen, "Does the Family Have a History?" Social Science History 6 (1982): 131-79
22. Tamara Hareven, "Modernization and Family History: Perspectives on Social Change," Signs 2 (1976): 190-206
23. See the classic study of Frank Moore Cross, Canaanite Myth and Hebrew Epic: Essays in the History of the Religion of Israel (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1973)
24. Marcel Mauss, The Gift: Fonns and Functions of Exchange in Archaic Societies (Glencoe, IL: Free Press, 1954)
25. Leonard Edwards, "Reducing Family Violence: The Role of the Family Violence Council," Juvenile and Family Court Journal 43 (1992): 1
26. Nancy Nason-Clark, "When Terror Strikes at Home: The Interface between Religion and Domestic Violence," JSSR 43 (2004): 308
27. Marcia Spiegel, "Spirituality for Survival: Jewish Women Healing Themselves," JFSR 12 (1996): 123