A feminist companion to reading the Bible : approaches, methods and strategies /: approaches, methods and strategies. (©1997)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Athalya Brenner & Carole Fontaine.
• Other Names: Brenner, Athalya
• Contents: 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.
• Publisher Details: Sheffield, England : Sheffield Academic Press
• Publication Date: 1997
• Copyright Date: 1997
• Extent: 1 online resource (654 pages)
• Subjects: 220.601; Religion; RELIGION -- Biblical Studies -- Exegesis & Hermeneutics; Feminist criticism; Feministische Theologie; Exegese; Bijbel; Interpretatie; Feministische theologie; Electronic books; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780567417220; 0567417220; 1283197596; 9781283197595
• Related ISBNs: 1850756740; 9781850756743
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 603-654).; Note: Print version record.
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