tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8670812027273632828.post4307814262631428785..comments2023-11-02T06:50:42.777-07:00Comments on billierosie: BATHSHEBAbillierosiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00288997506566830393noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8670812027273632828.post-10906567365357634902012-10-02T02:43:34.549-07:002012-10-02T02:43:34.549-07:00Just read it, It takes her story as a whole, over ...Just read it, It takes her story as a whole, over both occasions when she appears in the Bible, and concludes that while she was in one sense a victim she was ultimately able to get her own way (in relation to her son inheriting the throne).<br /><br />Reading the link you found, what struck me was simply this: she lived in a society that was very different from ours, and contemporary attempts to moralise, characterise or stereotype take no account of what life was like back then. Fulanihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14959628434559905605noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8670812027273632828.post-28456122192851820702012-10-02T02:21:42.589-07:002012-10-02T02:21:42.589-07:00Correction -- I just found this on the web!
http:...Correction -- I just found this on the web!<br /><br />http://contemplativesintheworld.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/bathsheba-feminist-approach.htmlbillierosiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00288997506566830393noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8670812027273632828.post-61972933696335633962012-10-02T02:18:41.017-07:002012-10-02T02:18:41.017-07:00I guess that the passage about her being "unc...I guess that the passage about her being "unclean" is referring to her menstruation. As for a feminist interpretation, I searched and searched the web, but couldn't find anything. Bathsheba's story continues -- She and David married, the child that she had conceived died, but later she gave birth to Solomon. David already had a son, who was in line for the throne, but Bathsheba manipulated things so that he was overlooked and Solomon became king of Israel. billierosiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00288997506566830393noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8670812027273632828.post-13124803577889260392012-09-29T13:27:57.895-07:002012-09-29T13:27:57.895-07:00I'm no biblical scholar and don't know the...I'm no biblical scholar and don't know the story well, but off the top of my head most stories are capable of different interpretations and while some would leave her as a cypher in a comment on male desire, others would not. Is there a feminist interpretation? What was her motivation, anyway? The relevant verse is silent on this: 'And David sent messengers, and took her; and she came in unto him, and he lay with her; for she was purified from her uncleanness; and she returned unto her house.' Maybe it's not even about her, but about concepts of clean and unclean, and how being clean in some respects can mean being unclean in others?Fulanihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14959628434559905605noreply@blogger.com