Gazing at Huldah.(Critical essay)

Bible and Critical Theory | August 1, 2005| | Copyright

This paper considers the representation of the prophet Huldah in 2 Kgs 22. Huldah has frequently been seen as a positive figure, one of the biblical women who might even be regarded as a model for women readers and women scholars. This paper seeks to query this by asking questions of the way in which the deuteronomistic writers may have been employing her as a woman to set the Josiah reforms in train. As a feature of the reform was the removal of the A/asherah, and if Asherah worship was associated with women as 23:7 would imply, was Huldah set up to justify a removal against ...

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