Feminist Companion to Esther, Judith and Susanna

Feminist Companion to Esther, Judith and Susanna

Author: Athalya Brenner-Idan

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 1995-01-01

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 0567491455

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This volume in the prestigious Feminist Companions series edited by Athalya Brenner covers this fascinating figures of Esther, Judith, and Susanna.


A Feminist Companion to Ruth and Esther

A Feminist Companion to Ruth and Esther

Author: Athalya Brenner-Idan

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 1999-04-01

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 0567475123

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The second series of Feminist Companions moves beyond the confines of sex- and gender-specific issues and studies of biblical women. Biblical feminist critics now address contemporary life situations, marginalization and a range of questions once not thought accessible to such critique. Feminist theory has also continued a rapid evolution. Among the topics included in this volume are composition, Torah, Ruth-the-Cat, female networking-together with much else to inform and stimulate female (and male) biblical scholars and non-scholars.


A Feminist Companion to Tobit and Judith

A Feminist Companion to Tobit and Judith

Author: Athalya Brenner-Idan

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2015-10-22

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13: 0567656020

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A Feminist Companion to Tobit and Judith extends the work of the hugely influential and respected Feminist Companion series, which continues to set the standard for feminist approaches to the Hebrew Bible and related texts. In the present volume Athalya Brenner-Idan (with Helen Efthimiadis-Keith) draws together a range of scholarly commentators and addresses the core issues relating to feminist interpretations of the two texts at hand. The volume examines attitudes to gender, identities, exile, social mores, beliefs, clothing, food and drink, personal relationships, and biblical reception. The contributors are: Beverly Bow and George Nickelsburg, Athalya Brenner-Idan, Ora Brison, Helen Efthimiadis-Keith, Renate Egger-Wenzel, Beate Ego, Emma England, Jennifer Glancy, Jan Willem van Henten, Naomi Jacobs, Amy-Jill Levine, Pamela Milne, and Barbara Schmitz.


The Oxford Handbook of Biblical Studies

The Oxford Handbook of Biblical Studies

Author: J. W. Rogerson

Publisher: OUP Oxford

Published: 2006-03-17

Total Pages: 915

ISBN-13: 0191568996

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The Oxford Handbooks series is a major new initiative in academic publishing. Each volume offers an authoritative and up-to-date survey of original research in a particular subject area. Specially commissioned essays from leading figures in the discipline give critical examinations of the progress and direction of debates. Biblical studies is a highly technical and diverse field. Study of the Bible demands expertise in fields ranging from Archaeology, Egyptology, Assyriology, and Linguistics through textual, historical, and sociological studies to Literary Theory, Feminism, Philosophy, and Theology, to name only some. This authoritative and compelling guide to the discipline will, therefore, be an invaluable reference work for all students and academics who want to explore more fully essential topics in Biblical studies.


Helpmates, Harlots, and Heroes, Second Edition

Helpmates, Harlots, and Heroes, Second Edition

Author: Alice Ogden Bellis

Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press

Published: 2007-07-03

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 1611644003

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This best-selling book, now revised and updated, shares the work of many feminist biblical scholars who have examined women's stories for several years. These stories are powerful accounts of women in the Old Testament--stories that have profoundly affected how women understand themselves as well as men's perception of them. Here, Alice Bellis shares the research of feminist biblical scholarship during a quarter of a century, which renders a vast amount of refreshing, exciting, sometimes disturbing material.


Dress Hermeneutics and the Hebrew Bible

Dress Hermeneutics and the Hebrew Bible

Author: Antonios Finitsis

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2022-05-19

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 0567702693

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Antonios Finitsis and contributors continue their examination of dress and clothing in the Hebrew Bible in this collection of illuminating essays. Straddling the divide between the material and the ideological, this book lends shape and texture to topics including social standing, agency, and the motif of cloth and clothing in Esther. Essays also explore the function of dress metaphors in imprecatory Psalms, the symbolic function of headdresses, and the divine clothing of Adam and Eve and the hermeneutics of trauma recovery. Together, the contributors continue to shape scholarly discourse on a growing body of scholarship on dress in the Bible. By turning their analytical gaze to this primary evidence, the contributors are able to reveal the social, psychological, aesthetic, ideological and symbolic meanings of dress in the Hebrew Bible, thereby producing insights into the literature and cultural world of the ancient Near East.


The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Books of the Bible

The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Books of the Bible

Author: Michael D. Coogan

Publisher:

Published: 2011-12-08

Total Pages: 1226

ISBN-13: 0195377370

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This is the first in this series of specialised reference works, each addressing a specific subfield within biblical studies. Books of the Bible is in depth, with articles on all of the canonical books, major apocryphal books of the New and Old Testaments, important noncanonical texts and some thematic essays.


Ancient Jewish Prayers and Emotions

Ancient Jewish Prayers and Emotions

Author: Stefan C. Reif

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2015-11-13

Total Pages: 479

ISBN-13: 3110386089

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Given the recent interest in the emotions presupposed in early religious literature, it has been thought useful to examine in this volume how the Jews and early Christians expressed their feelings within the prayers recorded in some of their literature. Specialists in their fields from academic institutions around the world have analysed important texts relating to this overall theme and to what is revealed with regard to such diverse topics as relations with God, exegesis, education, prophecy, linguistic expression, feminism, happiness, grief, cult, suicide, non-Jews, Hellenism, Qumran and Jerusalem. The texts discussed are in Greek, Hebrew and Aramaic and are important for a scientific understanding of how Rabbinic Judaism and Early Christianity developed their approaches to worship, to the construction of their theology and to the feelings that lay behind their religious ideas and practices. The articles contribute significantly to an historical understanding of how Jews maintained their earlier traditions but also came to terms with the ideology of the dominant Hellenistic culture that surrounded them.


Dictionary of the Old Testament: Wisdom, Poetry & Writings

Dictionary of the Old Testament: Wisdom, Poetry & Writings

Author: Tremper Longman, III

Publisher: InterVarsity Press

Published: 2010-05-11

Total Pages: 1000

ISBN-13: 0830867384

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Tremper Longman III and Peter E. Enns edit this collection of 148 articles by over 90 contributors on Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Songs, Lamentations, Ruth and Esther.


The Five Scrolls

The Five Scrolls

Author: Athalya Brenner-Idan

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2018-02-22

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13: 0567678946

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In this collection, scholars from diverse geographical locations revisit a cluster of five biblical texts: Ruth, Song of Songs, Qoheleth (Ecclesiastes), Lamentations and Esther. The volume presents various viewpoints and contexts-geographical, communal, religious, social, economical and ethical. Matching scholarship with social awareness, the contributors keep asking themselves and their readers a dual-faced question: how does our life context influence our scholarly and non-scholarly readings of the Bible, and how does reading the Bible critically influence our life? To answer this question and to show it at work the contributors employ a range of contextual lenses. Geography is a major factor of the contributors' contexts – with contributors from South Africa, Argentina, Israel, the Pacific Islands – but not the only one to influence their readings. Issues of society, culture and community are at the foreground for all contributors and their reading agendas with specific focus on the AIDs crisis in Africa, issues of migration and asylum, and feminist approaches to biblical texts.