Hannevi'ah and Hannah: Hearing Women Biblical Prophets in a Women's Lyrical Tradition

Is it possible to discern women prophets' utterances embedded within lyrics of prophetic books? If so, women prophets would be represented as implied composers along with men.

This study offers a reliable method in this effort, based on the sound patterns of lyrical Hebrew that disclose a consistent, clear 'signature' of women's oral composing more broadly, and a different signature of men's composing, across all lyrical genres and historical periods.

Integrating feminist, postcolonial, and...