| Description |
654 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
I. METACRITICS. Feminist criticism and Biblical studies on the verge of the twenty-first century / Adele Reinhartz -- Toward feminist companionship: the future of feminist Biblical studies and feminism / Pamela J. Milne -- On the future of feminist Biblical criticism / Heather A. McKay -- The abusive Bible: on the use of feminist method in pastoral contexts / Carole R. Fontaine -- Challenged by the text: interpreting two stories of incest in the Hebrew Bible / Carol Smith -- Identifying the speaker-in-the-text and the reader's location in Prophetic texts: the case of Isaiah 50 / Athalya Brenner -- Response to Brenner's 'Identifying the speaker-in-the-text' / Carole R. Fontaine -- II. DIFFERENCES AND OTHERNESS. An approach to a critical, feminist, theological reading of the Bible / Sharon H. Ringe -- A triple hermeneutic: scripture and revisionist women's poetry / Alicia Suskin Ostriker -- Overcoming the teaching of contempt / Katharina von Kellenbach -- Overlapping communities and multicultural hermeneutics / Kwok Pui-lan -- III. OTHER WORLDS. Feminist research and ancient Mesopotamia: problems and prospects / Julia M. Asher-Greve -- Engendering creation in ancient Egypt: still and flowing waters / Lana Troy -- IV. OTHER CLOSE CONTEXTS. Recovering objects, re-visioning subjects: archaeology and feminist Biblical study / Carol Meyers -- An iconographic approach to Genesis 38 / Eleanor Ferris Beach -- Family violence in cross-cultural perspective: an approach for feminist interpreters of the Bible / John J. Pilch -- V. OTHERNESS AND TRANSLATION. Septuagint and gender studies: the very beginning of a promising liaison / Kristin de Troyer -- Surviving Lamentations / Tod Linafelt -- VI. GODDESSES AND WISDOM. From goddess to literary construct: the transformation of Asherah into Ḥokmah / Judith M. Hadley -- Lady Wisdom: a polytheistic and psychological interpretation of a Biblical goddess -- VII. INTERTEXTUALITY. Intertextuality: Ruth in dialogue with Tamar / Ellen van Wolde -- Rachel weeping for her children: intertextuality and the Biblical testaments- a feminist approach / Elaine Wainwright -- VIII. FORAYS INTO RABBINICS. Rabbinic interpretation of scripture / Judith Hauptman -- Rabbis, feminists and patriarchy's ordinariness / Miriam Peskowitz -- Torah study and the making of Jewish gender / Daniel Boyarin -- IX. THE PERSONAL/AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL. Reflections on David / David Gunn -- 'My' Song of Songs / Athalya Brenner -- X. BACK TO THE TRADITIONAL. Editor's preface to Claus Westermann's 'Beauty in the Hebrew Bible' / Carole R. Fontaine -- Beauty in the Hebrew Bible / Claus Westermann |
| Notes |
First published: Sheffield, England : Sheffield Academic Press, 1997 |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: (pages [603]-654) |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from title page (ebrary, viewed September 05, 2013) |
| SUBJECT |
Bible -- Feminist criticism.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh93004310
|
|
Bible -- Hermeneutics.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85013650
|
| Author |
Brenner-Idan, Athalya.
|
|
Fontaine, Carole R.
|
| LC no. |
2002265494 |
| ISBN |
1579583504 |
|
