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Feminist Companion to Esther, Judith and Susanna

Feminist Companion to Esther, Judith and Susanna more books like this

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Athalya Brenner, a leading feminist critic of the Hebrew Bible, has gathered a unique anthology of feminist writing, offering a rich resource for reclaiming the female heritage in these classic texts.

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Prophets and Daniel

Prophets and Daniel more books like this

by Athalya Brenner (Editor)

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The feminist Companion to the Bitle (second series) This sparkling new collection of studies covers topics such as the Queen of Heaven, Saying No to a Prophet, Circumcision of the Prostitute, with the section on Daniel addressing, among other things, the wise queen mother of Daniel 5, and the Obtuse Foreign Ruler. This sparkling new collection of ...

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Song of Songs

Song of Songs more books like this

by Athalya Brenner

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The ten essays in this volume, the majority specially written, engage with questions of voice (whose?) and interplay (what kind?) between received interpretation and resisting female reader, and venture into methodological territory familiar and unfamiliar to biblical scholars, including autobiographical criticism. Among earlier readers invoked in ...

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Feminist Companion to the Latter Prophets

Feminist Companion to the Latter Prophets more books like this

by Athalya Brenner

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Athalya Brenner, a leading feminist critic of the Hebrew Bible, has gathered a unique anthology of feminist writing, offering a rich resource for reclaiming the female heritage in these classic texts.

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Samuel and Kings

Samuel and Kings more books like this

by Athalya Brenner (Editor)

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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 ...

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I Am...: Biblical Women Tell Their Own Stories

I Am...: Biblical Women Tell Their Own Stories more books like this

by Athalya Brenner

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Athalya Brenner presents fictionalized "autobiographies" of a dozen women and women groups in the Hebrew Bible, and also lets them share a conversation session. This allows her to include how these women have been interpreted - not only in the Bible itself, but also in Jewish and Christian traditions and by modern commentators. The result is a ...

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The Intercourse of Knowledge: On Gendering Desire and 'Sexuality' in the Hebrew Bible

The Intercourse of Knowledge: On Gendering Desire and 'Sexuality' in the Hebrew Bible more books like this

by Athalya Brenner

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A study of how, by what means, and to what extent, human love, desire and sex, and possibly even "sexuality", are gendered in the Hebrew Bible. Themes include: the construction of male and female bodies in language and ideologies; the praxis and ideology of sex, procreation and contraception; deviation from socio-sexual boundaries (eg incest, rape ...

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A Feminist Companion to Reading the Bible: History, Politics and Protest

A Feminist Companion to Reading the Bible: History, Politics and Protest

by Athalya Brenner (Editor), Carole Fontaine (Editor)

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This book both presents and demonstrates the numerous developments in feminist criticism of the Bible and the enormous range of influence that feminist criticism has come to have in biblical studies. The purpose of the book is to raise the kind of structural and systemic issues of method that are largely glossed over or merely implied in most non ...

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Are We Amused?

Are We Amused? more books like this

by Athalya Brenner

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Biblical humor about women and gender remains elusive for many readers, for its recognition may imply the realization that its a cruel and disrespectful humor, ridicule rather than good-natured fun. But viewing humor as social critique, as is largely done in the essays in this volume, with respect to both the texts read and their actual or implied ...

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Are We Amused?: Humour about Women in the Biblical Worlds

Are We Amused?: Humour about Women in the Biblical Worlds more books like this

by Athalya Brenner (Editor)

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Biblical humour remains elusive for many readers. And biblical humour about women and gender remains more problematic still, since its recognition may imply the realization that it's a cruel and disrespectful humour, ridicule rather than good-natured fun. But viewing humour as social critique, as is largely done in this volume's essays, can be ...

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On Gendering Texts: Female and Male Voices in the Hebrew Bible more books like this

by Athalya Brenner, Fokkelien Van Dijk-Hemmes

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Looking at the question of whether women might have contributed to the production of the Bible, this work considers such issues as: gender positions; authority; gendered textuality and attributions of gender within the text; voice; world view; and ideological content.

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Judges more books like this

by Athalya Brenner (Editor)

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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 ...

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Exodus to Deuteronomy more books like this

by Athalya Brenner (Editor)

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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 ...

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Feminist Companion to Ruth more books like this

by Athalya Brenner (Editor)

This volume is part of a series which provides a fundamental resource for feminist biblical scholarship, containing a comprehensive selection of essays, both reprinted and specially written for the series, by leading feminist scholars. 'An enterprising series of collections of important and pioneering studies.... Those teaching feminist courses ...

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Families and Family Relations: As Represented in Early Judaisms and Early Christianities: Texts and Fictions more books like this

by Athalya Brenner (Editor), Jan Willem Van Henten (Editor)

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STAR - Studies in Theology and Religion, 2 The fruits of discussion at an international gathering of biblical and other scholars interested in "families" in the ancient Near East are offered here. This is not a collection of "proceedings" in the usual sense; rather the essays mark a conscious joint effort to advance the discussion in the newly ...

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A Feminist Companion to Exodus to Deuteronomy more books like this

by Athalya Brenner (Editor)

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This volume is part of a series which provides a fundamental resource for feminist biblical scholarship, containing a comprehensive selection of essays, both reprinted and specially written for the series, by leading feminist scholars. The essays in this volume deal with social status and female sexuality, the textual figure of 'the daughter' and ...

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Feminist Companion to the Hebrew Bible in the New Testament more books like this

by Athalya Brenner (Editor)

This volume is part of a series which provides a fundamental resource for feminist biblical scholarship, containing a comprehensive selection of essays, both reprinted and specially written for the series, by leading feminist scholars. The contributors to this volume are Lyn Bechtel, Mark Bredin, Athalya Brenner, Edna Brocke, Carole Fontaine, ...

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Feminist Companion to Reading the Bible: Approaches, Methods and Strategies more books like this

by Athalya Brenner (Editor), Carole Fontane (Editor)

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A Feminist Companion to the Song of Songs more books like this

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Feminist Companion to Samuel-Kings more books like this

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A stimulating collection of studies by leading feminist scholars offering radical readings of the Old Testament books of Samuel and Kings. Although gender ideology may have been only a 'side issue' for the writers of these texts, the articles in this collection show that it is definitely a constituent of the general ideological framework of this ...

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Colour Terms in the Old Testament more books like this

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Feminist Companion to the Wisdom Literature more books like this

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Israelite Woman: Social Role and Litera more books like this

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On Gendering Texts: Female and Male Voices in the Hebrew Bible more books like this

by Fokkelien Van Dijk-Hemmes, Fokkelien Van Dijk Hemmes, Athalya Brenner

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Whereas the idea of a unique and divinely inspired biblical authorship has long been abandoned, the issue of authorship itself has not. The possibility that women may have contributed to the production of the Bible has not been taken seriously, yet the idea that everything is male unless otherwise proven is hardly acceptable. Rather than worrying ...

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Bible Translation on the Threshold of the Twenty-First Century: Authority, Reception, Culture and Religion more books like this

by Athalya Brenner (Editor), Jan Willem Van Henten (Editor)

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