A Feminist Companion to Judges
A Feminist Companion to Judges

Author: Athalya Brenner-Idan

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 1999-11-01

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13: 0567053571

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Judges is a book with much to say about women, especially about their fate in a masculine world, subject to male values. This sparkling new collection of studies subjects Achsah, Delilah and Jephthah's daughter to the female critical gaze, while an increased emphasis on the body (whether gendered or not), violence of various forms, and intertextuality reflect the growing importance of these issues in biblical exegesis. The contributors to this second Judges Companion are Lillian Klein, Claudia Rakel, Shulamit Valler, Phyllis Silverman Kramer, Carol Smith, Renate Jost, Ilse Müllner and Alice Bach.

A Feminist Companion to Reading the Bible
A Feminist Companion to Reading the Bible

Author: Athalya Brenner

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-08-16

Total Pages: 656

ISBN-13: 113680613X

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This valuable resource both presents and demonstrates the numerous developments in feminist criticsm of the Bible and the enormous rage of influence that feminist criticism has come to have in biblical studies. The purpose of the book is to raise issues of method that are largely glossed over or merely implied in most non-feminist works on the Bible. The editors have included broadly theoretical essays on feminist methods and the various roles they may play in research and pedagogy, as well as non-feminist essays that have direct bearing on the methods or subject matter that feminists use, as well as reading that illustrate the variety of methodological strategies adopted by feminist scholars. Some 30 scholars, from North America and Europe, have contributed to this Companion.

A Feminist Companion to Wisdom and Psalms
A Feminist Companion to Wisdom and Psalms

Author: Athalya Brenner-Idan

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 1998-11-01

Total Pages: 333

ISBN-13: 1441138072

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While the Wisdom volume in the first Feminist Companion series investigated multiple aspects of characterizations of women found in Wisdom literature, the 13 essays in this volume move beyond the study of the characterization of females that formed one of the first steps of modern feminist criticism-the recovery of what had been ignored or trivialized by androcentric readings dominant through the centuries. This second volume takes up questions of voice, exclusion and construction as well as the reinforcement of world views that, while perhaps necessary to the survival of the postexilic community as a whole, nevertheless left a legacy of continued gender asymmetry in Judaism and Christianity.

A Feminist Companion to Prophets and Daniel
A Feminist Companion to Prophets and Daniel

Author: Athalya Brenner-Idan

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2002-04-01

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 0567184706

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This final volume in the Feminist Companion to the Bible Second series is a sparkling collection. These essays revisit the figure of the Goddess, redefine female prophet-(esse)s, consider Yahweh as a violent husband, explore various aspects or eroticism in prophetic literature and discuss how to say no to a prophet. In the section on Daniel the Obtuse Foreign Ruler is viewed from the perspective of both feminism and humor, while Belshazzar's mother is proposed as another wise queen. Contributors include Judith Hadley, Esther Fuchs, Renate Jost, Rainer Kessler, Gerlinde Baumann, Mary Shields, Erin Runions, Tamar Kamlonkowski, Ulrike Sals, Julia M. O'Brien, Mayer Gruber, H. von Deventer, and Emily Sampson.

Feminist Companion to the Latter Prophets
Feminist Companion to the Latter Prophets

Author: Athalya Brenner-Idan

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2004-10-07

Total Pages: 385

ISBN-13: 0567383466

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The authoritative status of 'Prophecy' in the Bible poses a challenge to the feminist readers. This challenge is sharpened by the widespread symbolism in prophetic discourse of woman, wife, mother, harlot and the use of what the volume call 'pornoprophetics'. In this collection it is the book of Hosea that attracts special attention, but there are also articles on sexual violence and an introductory essay on prophecy itself as a literary phenomenon. This Feminist Companion offers a sharp confrontation between the voice of the prophetic male and the resistance of the feminist reader.

Women's Bible Commentary
Women's Bible Commentary

Author: Carol Ann Newsom

Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press

Published: 1998-01-01

Total Pages: 532

ISBN-13: 9780664257811

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In the critically acclaimed best-seller,Women's Bible Commentary, an outstanding group of women scholars introduced and summarized each book of the Bible and commented on those sections of each book that have particular relevence to women, focusing on female charecters, symbols, life situations such as marriage and family, the legal status of women, and religious principles that affect relationships of women and men. Now, this expanded edition provides similar insights on the Apocrypha, presenting a significant view of the lives and religious experiences of women as well as attitudes toward women in the Second Temple period. This expanded edition sets a new standard for women's and biblical studies.

Comedy and Feminist Interpretation of the Hebrew Bible
Comedy and Feminist Interpretation of the Hebrew Bible

Author: Melissa Jackson

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2012-07-26

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 0199656770

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This book explores the Hebrew Bible for evidence of comedy and further asks how reading the Hebrew Bible through a comic "lens" might positively inform feminist interpretation. The exploration is conducted with a number of Hebrew Bible narratives, all of which prominently involve female characters.

A Feminist Companion to Exodus to Deuteronomy
A Feminist Companion to Exodus to Deuteronomy

Author: Athalya Brenner-Idan

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2000-12-01

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13: 0567398757

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The studies in this collection, reflecting recent developments in feminist exegesis in Europe and the United States, comprise three 'revisits': the first, to Exodus and Moses, includes Susanne Scholz on a literary feminist reading of Exodus, Harold Washington on Exodus and Zora Neale Hurston's 'Moses, Man of the Mountain', Ilona Rashkow on 'Oedipus Wreckes: Moses and God's Rod', and 'Divine Puppeteer: Yahweh of Exodus' by Cheryl Kirk-Duggan. The second revisit, to Miriam, comprises 'Miriam' by Phyllis Silverman Kramer, 'Miriam Re-Imagined, and Imaginary Women of Exodus in Musical Settings' by Helen Leneman, Alice Bach, 'Dreaming of Miriam's Well' and Irmtraud Fischer on 'The Authority of Miriam'. The third revisit is to Daughters, where Tal Ilan writes on the daughters of Zelophehad and Leila Bronner on' Serah and the Exodus'.

Women in the Hebrew Bible
Women in the Hebrew Bible

Author: Alice Bach

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-10-31

Total Pages: 566

ISBN-13: 1135238685

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Women in the Hebrew Bible presents the first one-volume overview covering the interpretation of women's place in man's world within the Hebrew Bible or Old Testament. Written by the major scholars in the field of biblical studies and literary theory, these essays examine attitudes toward women and their status in ancient Near Eastern societies, focusing on the Israelite society portrayed by the Hebrew Bible.

A Feminist Companion to Samuel and Kings
A Feminist Companion to Samuel and Kings

Author: Athalya Brenner-Idan

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2000-06-01

Total Pages: 151

ISBN-13: 0567069745

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This collection of studies, reflecting developments in feminist exegesis over the last few years in Europe and the United States, includes treatments of key female figures ('Tamar and the "Coat of Many Colours"' by Adrien Janis Bledstein; 'Michal, the Barren Wife' by Lillian R. Klein; 'On Centering a Fringe Figure: The Wife of Jeroboam in 1 Kings 14:1-18' by Uta Schmidt; 'The Widow of Zarephath and the Great Woman of Shunem: A Comparative Analysis of Two Stories' by Jopie Siebert-Hommes), and a new examination of a biblical threesome, 'Saul, David and Jonathan: The Story of a Triangle? A Contribution to the Issue of Homosexuality in the First Testament' by Silvia Schroer and Thomas Staubli.