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  • 3 - Greek Tragedy and the Theatre of Sisterhood

  • from Part I - Themes
  • Edited by P. J. Finglass, University of Bristol, Lyndsay Coo, University of Bristol
  • Book:
    Female Characters in Fragmentary Greek Tragedy
    Published online:
    11 June 2020
    Print publication:
    02 July 2020, pp 40-61

  • Summary

    This chapter draws attention to a familial relationship that has been treated as all but invisible: that between sisters. Although we find examples of this bond in our surviving tragedies, it has long been overshadowed by a focus on male/female relations. This discussion, prompted by the recent productive debate between the fields of classics and political theory over the sisterhood of Antigone, employs close readings of Sophocles’ Tereus and Euripides’ Erechtheus to bring out a feminist interpretation of these texts that places sisterhood front and centre. The chapter shows not only that sisterhood was a more prevalent theme in Greek tragedy than is visible from the extant plays alone, but also that the fragments can be a rich source for scholars working in the area of feminist political theory.

Female Characters in Fragmentary Greek Tragedy
  • Edited by P. J. Finglass, Lyndsay Coo
  • Published online:
    11 June 2020
    Print publication:
    02 July 2020
  • How were women represented in Greek tragedy? This question lies at the heart of much modern scholarship on ancient drama, yet it has typically been approached using evidence drawn only from the thirty-two tragedies that survive complete - neglecting tragic fragments, especially those recently discovered and often very substantial fragmentary papyri from plays that had been thought lost. Drawing on the latest research on both gender in tragedy and on tragic fragments, the essays in this volume examine this question from a fresh perspective, shedding light on important mythological characters such as Pasiphae, Hypsipyle, and Europa, on themes such as violence, sisterhood, vengeance, and sex, and on the methodology of a discipline which needs to take fragmentary evidence to heart in order to gain a fuller understanding of ancient tragedy. All Greek is translated to ensure wide accessibility.

  • 21 - The Bible in North America

  • from Part III - Reception of the Bible Geographically
  • Edited by John Riches, University of Glasgow
  • Book:
    The New Cambridge History of the Bible
    Published online:
    09 June 2015
    Print publication:
    13 April 2015, pp 391-426

  • Summary

    This chapter presents the genealogy of contemporary feminist readings rather than the broad spectrum of personal names, examples and locations. The term gender-critical includes all these variants that feminist exegesis has engendered. The presupposition will be that it is epistemological changes that have made possible changes in feminist readings and inspired struggles for women's equality and liberation, not the other way round. A focus on past women's experiences gave feminist readers the key to unlock the biblical texts filtered by andocentric and access the social reality behind them, a reality far more complex than the texts allow for. The chapter focuses on how the development of mainly Western Christian feminist readings has been driven forward by changes in the reading subject, the reading position and changes in the status of the Bible. The Bible has been a political tool, a site of contestation and struggle, a weapon and a shield.

  • 14 - Liberationist readings of the Bible

  • from Part II - New Modes of Study of the Bible
  • Edited by John Riches, University of Glasgow
  • Book:
    The New Cambridge History of the Bible
    Published online:
    09 June 2015
    Print publication:
    13 April 2015, pp 249-260

  • Summary

    Some biblical scholars realised that to understand the historical, political and social background of the Vietnam War and found them in the social sciences. The works of this group were among the seminal studies for social-scientific readings of the Bible. Norman Gottwald used sociological and social-anthropological theory to argue that ancient Israel was not established by external immigration, but by social conflicts within Canaanite society. Initially social-science readings primarily employed theories and models from sociology and social anthropology. The focus on foreignness made social anthropology more relevant than sociology based on studies of modern societies. The emphasis on the foreignness of the biblical texts represents a contrast to the hermeneutics of Rudolf Bultmann, who saw the similarities in understanding of life between the New Testament and its modern readers. One of the strongest criticisms of social-science approaches as they have been practised by male scholars has come from feminist perspectives.