Heroines, Heroes and Deity Three Narratives of the Biblical Heroic Tradition

includes index and biblioraphy

1. The Sacrifice of Jephthah`s Daughter ........1 The Sacrifice of Jephthah`s Daughter and the Notion of Herem ..................1 Characters in the Narrative: Jephthah`s Daughter as a Heroine ........35 Foreign rite or Israelite Rite ? The Female Rite Construed with the Jephthah Cycle ..........44 2. Hairy Samson : The Function of the Hair Motif in the Samson Cycle ..........66 Samson : A Hero with Folklore and /or/ Mythological Characteristic ...............66 The Hair Motif and Connected Ideas of the Samson Cycle and parallel Motifs in Folk Literature .............67 The Hari motif and connected Ideas of the Samson Saga in theLight of Biblical and other Parallels, and Their possible functions within Biblical Systems ................82 Summary and Conclusions to Chapter 2.....................97 Jephthah`s Daughter and Samson Within the Book of Judges .............................100 3. Urim and tummim -Saul and David ..........105 The Basic Meaning Conveyed by the Urim and Thummim Ritual .........106 The Oracles in I Samuel 14: 37, 40-42 and I samuel 28..........111 Saul and Deivid ..............120