Fathers and Daughters in the Hebrew Bible

The father-daughter dyad features in the Hebrew Bible in all of narratives, laws, myths and metaphors. In previous explorations of this relationship, the tendency has been to focus on discrete stories - notable among them, Judges 11 (the story of Jephthah''s human sacrifice of his daughter) and Genesis 19 (the dark tale of Lot''s daughters'' seduction of their father). By taking the full spectrum ...