Using experiences of South Pacific islanders, Havea reads around and across biblical texts to explore women's vows in the Hebrew Bible, exposing the slippery nature of both language and political control and demonstrating a "transtextual" way to read biblical law.
Paperback edition available from the Society of Biblical Literature (www.sbl-site.org).
- ISBN10 1589830334
- ISBN13 9781589830332
- Publish Date 4 March 2004 (first published 17 November 2003)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Society of Biblical Literature
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 223
- Language English