Uprising of Goats

by Diane Glancy

Overview

A professor hears the voices of Biblical women. She begins writing. What was it like for Dorcas to die and be brought back to life? What was it like for Philip's daughters to live with the threat of persecution after Christ was crucified? What did Miriam feel when she sat in the leprosy tent? What did they all say as the professor wove her own story between their voices? It was Michal, David's first wife, who made a bolster of goat's hair for David's bed when Saul, her father, was trying to kill him. The bolster made it look as if David were there. Likewise, these women's voices are not their actual voices, because they were not recorded in Scripture, but a similitude of what such women might have said. The narrator struggles with their stories beneath Scripture. Michal is maligned because she scorned David when he danced before the ark, but after the death of her sister, she raised her sister's sons. David hanged them all when the Gibeonites told him that Saul had broken a covenant with them. They asked that Saul's male descendants be killed. What was it like for Michal to see her nephews hanged? What did she have to say? ""Diane Glancy is the kind of visionary whose poetic spirit sees beyond, twisting the ordinary with astonishing verbal leaps of imagination, turning things inside out so that we see what they are made of. In these stories, she interweaves a personal narrative with visions and voices from another time, another sphere. The result is quite extraordinary."" --Luci Shaw, author of Scape ""Uprising of Goats is an impeccably researched, intricately rendered, hauntingly beautiful journey through what has traditionally been a realm of silent mystery. It's clear that Diane Glancy does not simply imagine the world of biblical women, but inhabits the same quietly electrifying space."" --Paula Huston, author of A Land Without Sin Diane Glancy is emeritus professor at Macalester College. Her books and films are listed online at www.dianglancy.org and www.dianeglancy.com..

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781625647207
Publisher:	Wipf & Stock Publishers
Publication date:	08/18/2014
Pages:	178
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Diane Glancy is emeritus professor at Macalester College. Her books and films are listed online at www.dianglancy.org and www.dianeglancy.com..

Table of Contents

A Chapter in Which the Beginning Begins to Shred 1

Hispera: Noah's Wife, A Chapter Floating on the Water 4

A Chapter in Which Things Start to Go Bad between Us 12

Hagar: The Little Goat Trail, A Chapter in Which Land Appears 14

Ishmael Had a Box Of Crayons 18

Dorcas: The Closets of Heaven, A Chapter in Which Fabric Is a Weighty Matter 22

I Dorcas' Life 24

A Chapter in Which an Afterword to Dorcas and a Divorce Begins 36

II Dorcas' Death 38

A Chapter in Which an Afterword to Dorcas Continues 43

III Peter Calls Dorcas Back 46

A Chapter in Which an Afterword to Dorcas Continues 59

IV Dorcas Returns from Death 61

A Chapter in Which Afterword to Dorcas Ends 75

Michal: A Stone I Could Not Lift, A Chapter Found on the Slope of a Steep Hill 78

A Chapter in Which There Is an Afterword to Michal 88

Anna: A Chapter in Which a Raisin Cake Is Wrapped in Cloth 90

Afterword to Anna, A Chapter in Which Tenure Was Received 95

A Chapter in Which a Group of Women See Christ's Death 97

A Chapter in Which a Sabbatical and a Divorce Appear 98

The Parting, A Chapter in Which the Four Daughters of Philip Are Called by Name 101

Philipa 102

Clauda 112

A Chapter in Which There Is Fellowship 121

Prudah 123

Lucina 134

A Chapter in Which There Is an Afterword to the Daughters of Philip 140

Miriam: Seven Days in Leprosy Camp, A Chapter Stuck in the Desert 149

A Chapter in Which There Is an Afterword to Miriam 161

Uprising, A Chapter in Which the End Is Reached 164

Acknowledgments 167

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

"Diane Glancy is the kind of visionary whose poetic spirit sees beyond, twisting the ordinary with astonishing verbal leaps of imagination, turning things inside out so that we see what they are made of. In these stories, she interweaves a personal narrative with visions and voices from another time, another sphere. The result is quite extraordinary."
—Luci Shaw, author of Scape

"Uprising of Goats is an impeccably researched, intricately rendered, hauntingly beautiful journey through what has traditionally been a realm of silent mystery. It's clear that Diane Glancy does not simply imagine the world of biblical women, but inhabits the same quietly electrifying space."
—Paula Huston, author of A Land Without Sin

Editorial Reviews

"Diane Glancy is the kind of visionary whose poetic spirit sees beyond, twisting the ordinary with astonishing verbal leaps of imagination, turning things inside out so that we see what they are made of. In these stories, she interweaves a personal narrative with visions and voices from another time, another sphere. The result is quite extraordinary."
—Luci Shaw, author of Scape

"Uprising of Goats is an impeccably researched, intricately rendered, hauntingly beautiful journey through what has traditionally been a realm of silent mystery. It's clear that Diane Glancy does not simply imagine the world of biblical women, but inhabits the same quietly electrifying space."
—Paula Huston, author of A Land Without Sin

From the Publisher