Feminist biblical interpretation : a compendium of critical commentary on the books of the Bible and related literature /

Feminist biblical interpretation : a compendium of critical commentary on the books of the Bible and related literature / [print] edited by Luise Schottroff and Marie-Theres Wacker with the cooperation of Claudia Janssen and Beate Wehn ; Martin Rumscheidt, editor of the American edition ; translated by Lisa E. Dahill ... [and others. - Grand Rapids, Michigan : William B. Eerdmans Pub., (c)2012. - xxv, 1030 pages ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Genesis 1-11 : the primordial history Genesis 12-50 : the story of Israel's origins as a women's story Exodus : the meaning of liberation from "his" perspective Leviticus : the ABC of creation Numbers : on boundaries Deuteronomy : rights and justice for women in the law Joshua : tradition and justice : women's share in the inheritance Judges : encoded messages to women Ruth : border crossings of two women in patriarchal society Books of Samuel : women at the center of Israel's history Books of Kings : images of women without women's reality Books of Chronicles : in the vestibule of women Ezra and Nehemiah : the return of the others Esther : about resistance against anti-Semitism and sexism Job : questioning the book of the righteous sufferer The Psalms : "who is speaking may be all that matters" / Ulrike Bail -- Proverbs : how feminine wisdom comes into being Qoheleth (Ecclesiastes) : man alone, without woman Song of Songs : polyphony of love Isaiah : the book of female metaphors Jeremiah : when wise wailing women and prophetic pornography show the way into exile Lamentations : Zion's cry in affliction Ezekiel : male prophecy with female imagery Daniel : not counting women and children Hosea : the God-identified man and the woman (women) Israel Joel : God's self-justification Amos : the truth is concrete Obadiah : brother Edom Jonah : the Jonah experience : for women too? / Maria Kassel -- Micah : call for justice : hope for all Nahum : the just God as sexual predator Habakkuk : a political night-prayer Zephaniah : or, the threefold Jerusalem Haggai and Zechariah : a new temple : new life for all Malachi : to the glory of God, the Father? / Marie-Theres Wacker -- Helen Schungel-Straumann -- Irmtraud Fischer -- Susanne Scholz -- Gerburgis Feld -- Ursula Rapp -- Angelika Engelmann -- Kerstin Ulrich -- J. Cheryl Exum -- Ina Johanne Petermann (Batmartha) -- Ilse Mullner -- Kyung Sook Lee -- Marie-Theres Wacker -- Christiane Karrer-Grube -- Klara Butting -- Christl Maier and Silvia Schroer -- Christl Maier -- Kumiko Kato -- Athalya Brenner -- Irmtraud Fischer -- Angela Bauer-Levesque -- Maria Hausl -- Renate Jost and Elke Seifert -- Ilse von Loewenclau -- Marie-Theres Wacker -- Marie-Theres Wacker -- Marie-Theres Wacker -- Marie-Theres Wacker -- Sophia Bietenhard -- Gerlinde Baumann -- Ulrike Bail -- Ulrike Bail -- Beate Schmidtgen -- 1 Maccabees : women's existence at the edges of the text 2 Maccabees : the teaching of history Tobit : a lesson marriage and family in the diaspora Judith : about a beauty who is not what she pretends to be Baruch : mail from distant shores Sirach (Ecclesiasticus) : on the difficult relation between divine wisdom and real women in an androcentric document Wisdom : an example of Jewish intercultural theology 4 Ezra : on the struggle for new life, the time that is being fulfilled, and the transformation of the earth (2 Esdras 3-14) / Luzia Sutter Rehmann -- Joseph and Aseneth : perfect bride or heavenly prophetess Testament of Job : Job, Dinah, and their daughters Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs : how men use power Claudia Rakel -- Christine Gerber -- Helen Schungel-Straumann -- Claudia Rakel -- Marie-Theres Wacker -- Angelika Strotmann -- Silvia Schroer -- Angela Standhartinger -- Luzia Sutter Rehmann -- Renate Kirchhoff -- Gospel of Matthew : Jewish-Christian churches in opposition to the Pax Romana Gospel of Mark : women as true disciples of Jesus Gospel of Luke : the humbled will be lifted up Gospel of John : spaces for women Acts of the Apostles : looking forward and looking back Romans : a feminist reading 1 Corinthians : how freedom comes to be 2 Corinthians : sacrificing difference for unity Galatians : on discomfort about gender and other problems of otherness Ephesians : community spirit and conservative values as survival strategies in the churches of Asia Minor Philippians : lifting up those who have been put down Colossians : the origin of the table of household duties 1 Thessalonians : opposing death by building community 2 Thessalonians : hope in God's just judgment Pastoral Epistles : a tamed Paul : domesticated women Philemon : a reading under Apphia's critical eyes Hebrews : strangers in the world James : conflict about the way of justice 1 Peter : survival strategies for harried communities 2 Peter : guideposts for the godly life Letters of John Jude : the implications of feminist reading Revelation : inspirations from Patmos The story of Thecla : apostle between fiction and reality Acts of Xanthippe, Polyxena, and Rebecca : or, three women and two lionesses Gospel of Mary : Mary Magdelene as beloved disciple and representative of Jesus Gospel of Thomas : early Christian traditions about women disciples of Jesus : or, Mary Magdalene becomes male Shepherd of Hermas : being enticed into conversion in the erotic church of Sophia Gospel of Peter : a female disciple of the Lord and her female friends Protevangelium of James : God's story goes on Martina S. Gnadt -- Monika Fander -- Claudia Janssen and Regene Lamb -- Ruth Habermann -- Ivoni Richter Reimer -- Elsa Tamez -- Luise Schottroff -- Carline Vander Stichele -- Brigitte Kahl -- Helga Melzer-Keller -- Sheila Briggs -- Angela Standhartiger -- Jutta Bickmann -- Marlene Crusemann -- Ulrike Wagener -- Sabine Bieberstein -- Ulrike Wagener -- Irene Dannemann -- Irene Foulkes -- Irene Foulkes -- Kerstin Ruoff -- Ruth Anne Reese -- Luzia Sutter Rehmann -- Anne Jensen -- Irene Dannemann -- Judith Hartenstein and Silke Petersen -- Judith Hartenstein and Silke Petersen -- Ulrike Auga -- Caroline Vander Stichele -- Bettina Eltrop and Claudia Janssen.



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Bible--Feminist criticism.

BS521.K81.F465 2012 BS521