Big Ideas · 22 · The Matriarch
Lampooning the heroes
The biblical authors sketched unflattering images of male heroes, not to topple the social order, but to show their male readers a new way of being.
Satire as instruction.
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Their audience had to learn new strategies for a world under foreign rule.
Source: Why the Bible Began, pp. 358
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