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A feminist companion to reading the Bible : approaches, methods and strategies / edited by Athalya Brenner and Carole Fontaine. [print]

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Sheffield, England : Sheffield Academic Press, (c)1997.Description: 654 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781850756743
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • BS521
  • BS521.B838.F465 1997
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Contents:
A. Reinhartz -- Toward feminist companionship : the future of feminist biblical studies and feminism P.J. Milne -- On the future of feminist biblical criticism H.A. McCay -- The abusive Bible : on the use of feminist method in pastoral contexts C.R. Fontaine -- Challenged by the text : interpreting two stories of incest in the Hebrew Bible C. Smith -- Identifying the speaker-in-the-text and the reader's location in prophetic texts : the case of Isaiah 50 A. Brenner -- Response to Brenner's "Identifying the speaker-in-the-text" / C.R. Fontaine -- 2. Differences and otherness. An approach to a critical, feminist, theological reading of the Bible S.H. Ringe -- A triple hermeneutic : scripture and revisionist women's poetry A.S. Ostriker -- Overcoming the teaching of contempt K. von Kellenbach -- Overlapping communities and multicultural hermeneutics K. Pui-lan -- 3. Other worlds. Feminist research and ancient Mesopotamia : problems and prospects J.M. Asher-Greve -- Engendering creation in ancient Egypt : still and flowing waters L. Troy --
C. Meyers -- An iconographic approach to Genesis 38 E.F. Beach -- Family violence in cross-cultural perspective : an approach for feminist interpreters of the Bible J.J. Pilch -- 5. Otherness and translation. Septuagint and gender studies : the very beginning of a promising liaison K. de Troyer -- Surviving Lamentations T. Linafelt -- 6. Goddesses and wisdom. From goddess to literary construct : the transformation of Asherah into Hokmah J.M. Hadley -- Lady Wisdom : a polytheistic and psychological interpretation of a biblical goddess B. Lang -- 7. Intertextuality. Intertextuality : Ruth in dialogue with Tamar E. van Wolde -- Rachel weeping for her children : intertextuality and the biblical testaments E. Wainwright -- 8. Forays into rabbinics. Rabinnic interpretation of scripture J. Hauptman -- Rabbis, feminists and patriarchy's ordinariness M. Peskowitz -- Torah study and the making of Jewish gender D. Boyarin -- 9. The personal/autobiographical. Reflections on David D. Gunn -- "My" Song of Songs A. Brenner -- 10. Back to the traditional. Editor's preface to Claus Westermann's "Beauty in the Hebrew Bible" -- Beauty in the Hebrew Bible C. Westermann.
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Circulating Book (checkout times vary with patron status) Circulating Book (checkout times vary with patron status) G. Allen Fleece Library CIRCULATING COLLECTION Non-fiction BS521.4.F45 1997 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 31923001622071

A companion to A Feminist companion to the Bible.

1. Metacritics. Feminist criticism and biblical studies on the verge of the twenty-first century A. Reinhartz -- Toward feminist companionship : the future of feminist biblical studies and feminism P.J. Milne -- On the future of feminist biblical criticism H.A. McCay -- The abusive Bible : on the use of feminist method in pastoral contexts C.R. Fontaine -- Challenged by the text : interpreting two stories of incest in the Hebrew Bible C. Smith -- Identifying the speaker-in-the-text and the reader's location in prophetic texts : the case of Isaiah 50 A. Brenner -- Response to Brenner's "Identifying the speaker-in-the-text" / C.R. Fontaine -- 2. Differences and otherness. An approach to a critical, feminist, theological reading of the Bible S.H. Ringe -- A triple hermeneutic : scripture and revisionist women's poetry A.S. Ostriker -- Overcoming the teaching of contempt K. von Kellenbach -- Overlapping communities and multicultural hermeneutics K. Pui-lan -- 3. Other worlds. Feminist research and ancient Mesopotamia : problems and prospects J.M. Asher-Greve -- Engendering creation in ancient Egypt : still and flowing waters L. Troy --

4. Other close contexts. Recovering objects, re-visioning subjects : archaeology and feminist biblical study C. Meyers -- An iconographic approach to Genesis 38 E.F. Beach -- Family violence in cross-cultural perspective : an approach for feminist interpreters of the Bible J.J. Pilch -- 5. Otherness and translation. Septuagint and gender studies : the very beginning of a promising liaison K. de Troyer -- Surviving Lamentations T. Linafelt -- 6. Goddesses and wisdom. From goddess to literary construct : the transformation of Asherah into Hokmah J.M. Hadley -- Lady Wisdom : a polytheistic and psychological interpretation of a biblical goddess B. Lang -- 7. Intertextuality. Intertextuality : Ruth in dialogue with Tamar E. van Wolde -- Rachel weeping for her children : intertextuality and the biblical testaments E. Wainwright -- 8. Forays into rabbinics. Rabinnic interpretation of scripture J. Hauptman -- Rabbis, feminists and patriarchy's ordinariness M. Peskowitz -- Torah study and the making of Jewish gender D. Boyarin -- 9. The personal/autobiographical. Reflections on David D. Gunn -- "My" Song of Songs A. Brenner -- 10. Back to the traditional. Editor's preface to Claus Westermann's "Beauty in the Hebrew Bible" -- Beauty in the Hebrew Bible C. Westermann.

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