Relational Assemblages and Bat-Yiphtachâs Agency

Margaret Murray Talbot

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Chapter 5 Relational Assemblages and Bat-Yiphtachâs Agency

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004508170_006

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What does a child-oriented interpretation of Bat-Yiphtachâs narrative do to assessments of her agency? Chapter 5 surveys how agency has emerged in childhood studies scholarship and in previous scholarship on Bat-Yiphtachâs narrative. It includes a brief review of the focus on agency in childhood studies, including theoretical moves made by Nick Lee, David Oswell, and Michael Gallagher, whose research constructs agency relationally and contextually, in open assemblages. A survey of how biblical scholars have constructed Bat-Yiphtachâs agency reveals the vast differences the narrativeâs gaps and ambiguities allow, and the place of the interpreter within the relational assemblage. Using Gallagherâs assemblage framework, and in conversation with the interpretation of Bat-Yiphtachâs narrative in Chapter 4, the chapter adds to previous assessments of her agency by suggesting that Bat-Yiphtach is at the mercy of her body (she bleeds), her father (she echoes and obeys), and socio-cultural and religious traditions for menstruating girls (she goes).

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Why Jephthah's Daughter Weeps

A Child-Oriented Interpretation

Series:Â Biblical Interpretation Series, Volume: 199

E-Book ISBN:: 9789004508170

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 11 Feb 2022

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