TY - BOOK AU - Schottroff,Luise AU - Wacker,Marie-Theres AU - Rumscheidt,Martin TI - Feminist biblical interpretation: a compendium of critical commentary on the books of the Bible and related literature SN - 9780802860972 AV - BS521.K81.F465 2012 PY - 2012/// CY - Grand Rapids, Michigan PB - William B. Eerdmans Pub. KW - Bible KW - Feminist criticism N1 - 2; Genesis 1-11 : the primordial history; Helen Schungel-Straumann --; Genesis 12-50 : the story of Israel's origins as a women's story; Irmtraud Fischer --; Exodus : the meaning of liberation from "his" perspective; Susanne Scholz --; Leviticus : the ABC of creation; Gerburgis Feld --; Numbers : on boundaries; Ursula Rapp --; Deuteronomy : rights and justice for women in the law; Angelika Engelmann --; Joshua : tradition and justice : women's share in the inheritance; Kerstin Ulrich --; Judges : encoded messages to women; J. Cheryl Exum --; Ruth : border crossings of two women in patriarchal society; Ina Johanne Petermann (Batmartha) --; Books of Samuel : women at the center of Israel's history; Ilse Mullner --; Books of Kings : images of women without women's reality; Kyung Sook Lee --; Books of Chronicles : in the vestibule of women; Marie-Theres Wacker --; Ezra and Nehemiah : the return of the others; Christiane Karrer-Grube --; Esther : about resistance against anti-Semitism and sexism; Klara Butting --; Job : questioning the book of the righteous sufferer; Christl Maier and Silvia Schroer --; The Psalms : "who is speaking may be all that matters" / Ulrike Bail --; Proverbs : how feminine wisdom comes into being; Christl Maier --; Qoheleth (Ecclesiastes) : man alone, without woman; Kumiko Kato --; Song of Songs : polyphony of love; Athalya Brenner --; Isaiah : the book of female metaphors; Irmtraud Fischer --; Jeremiah : when wise wailing women and prophetic pornography show the way into exile; Angela Bauer-Levesque --; Lamentations : Zion's cry in affliction; Maria Hausl --; Ezekiel : male prophecy with female imagery; Renate Jost and Elke Seifert --; Daniel : not counting women and children; Ilse von Loewenclau --; Hosea : the God-identified man and the woman (women) Israel; Marie-Theres Wacker --; Joel : God's self-justification; Marie-Theres Wacker --; Amos : the truth is concrete; Marie-Theres Wacker --; Obadiah : brother Edom; Marie-Theres Wacker --; Jonah : the Jonah experience : for women too? / Maria Kassel --; Micah : call for justice : hope for all; Sophia Bietenhard --; Nahum : the just God as sexual predator; Gerlinde Baumann --; Habakkuk : a political night-prayer; Ulrike Bail --; Zephaniah : or, the threefold Jerusalem; Ulrike Bail --; Haggai and Zechariah : a new temple : new life for all; Beate Schmidtgen --; Malachi : to the glory of God, the Father? / Marie-Theres Wacker --; 1 Maccabees : women's existence at the edges of the text; Claudia Rakel --; 2 Maccabees : the teaching of history; Christine Gerber --; Tobit : a lesson marriage and family in the diaspora; Helen Schungel-Straumann --; Judith : about a beauty who is not what she pretends to be; Claudia Rakel --; Baruch : mail from distant shores; Marie-Theres Wacker --; Sirach (Ecclesiasticus) : on the difficult relation between divine wisdom and real women in an androcentric document; Angelika Strotmann --; Wisdom : an example of Jewish intercultural theology; Silvia Schroer --; 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; Angela Standhartinger --; Testament of Job : Job, Dinah, and their daughters; Luzia Sutter Rehmann --; Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs : how men use power; Renate Kirchhoff --; Gospel of Matthew : Jewish-Christian churches in opposition to the Pax Romana; Martina S. Gnadt --; Gospel of Mark : women as true disciples of Jesus; Monika Fander --; Gospel of Luke : the humbled will be lifted up; Claudia Janssen and Regene Lamb --; Gospel of John : spaces for women; Ruth Habermann --; Acts of the Apostles : looking forward and looking back; Ivoni Richter Reimer --; Romans : a feminist reading; Elsa Tamez --; 1 Corinthians : how freedom comes to be; Luise Schottroff --; 2 Corinthians : sacrificing difference for unity; Carline Vander Stichele --; Galatians : on discomfort about gender and other problems of otherness; Brigitte Kahl --; Ephesians : community spirit and conservative values as survival strategies in the churches of Asia Minor; Helga Melzer-Keller --; Philippians : lifting up those who have been put down; Sheila Briggs --; Colossians : the origin of the table of household duties; Angela Standhartiger --; 1 Thessalonians : opposing death by building community; Jutta Bickmann --; 2 Thessalonians : hope in God's just judgment; Marlene Crusemann --; Pastoral Epistles : a tamed Paul : domesticated women; Ulrike Wagener --; Philemon : a reading under Apphia's critical eyes; Sabine Bieberstein --; Hebrews : strangers in the world; Ulrike Wagener --; James : conflict about the way of justice; Irene Dannemann --; 1 Peter : survival strategies for harried communities; Irene Foulkes --; 2 Peter : guideposts for the godly life; Irene Foulkes --; Letters of John; Kerstin Ruoff --; Jude : the implications of feminist reading; Ruth Anne Reese --; Revelation : inspirations from Patmos; Luzia Sutter Rehmann --; The story of Thecla : apostle between fiction and reality; Anne Jensen --; Acts of Xanthippe, Polyxena, and Rebecca : or, three women and two lionesses; Irene Dannemann --; Gospel of Mary : Mary Magdelene as beloved disciple and representative of Jesus; Judith Hartenstein and Silke Petersen --; Gospel of Thomas : early Christian traditions about women disciples of Jesus : or, Mary Magdalene becomes male; Judith Hartenstein and Silke Petersen --; Shepherd of Hermas : being enticed into conversion in the erotic church of Sophia; Ulrike Auga --; Gospel of Peter : a female disciple of the Lord and her female friends; Caroline Vander Stichele --; Protevangelium of James : God's story goes on; Bettina Eltrop and Claudia Janssen; 2 ER -