When Women Kill: Tales of Sex and Slaughter

My next research project deals with women in the Old Testament who kill or are a catalyst for killing. Figures like Jael, Rahab, Dinah, Delila, and Judith (in the Apocrypha) are intriguing because of the intermingling of seduction and death. Jael in Judges 4 and 5 brings a general to her tent under the pretense of offering him shelter and food, but then impales a tent peg into his skull. In Joshua 2, Rahab actually does offer her guests, the spies of Israel, shelter, but is a catalyst for the slaughter of her own people. These stories of delectably disturbing and provocative. I can't wait to see what my research reveals.