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Wisdom and psalms : a feminist companion to the Bible (second series) / edited by Athalya Brenner and Carole R. Fontaine.

Contributor(s): Brenner, Athalya | Fontaine, Carole R
Material type: TextTextSeries: Feminist companion to the Bible. Second series: 2.Publisher: Sheffield, England : Sheffield Academic Press, [1998]Copyright date: ©1998Description: 332 pages : illustrations, facsimiles ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 1850759170Subject(s): Bible. Old Testament -- Feminist criticism | Bible. Old Testament -- Criticism, interpretation, etc | Wisdom literature -- Feminist criticism | Wisdom literature -- Criticism, interpretation, etcBibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliography (pages [302]-320) and indexes.
Contents:
Wisdom and creation / Roland E. Murphy -- A figure with many facets : the literary and theological functions of personified wisdom in Proverbs 1-9 / Gerlinde Baumann -- The gender and motives of the wisdom teacher in Proverbs 7 / Alice Ogden Bellis -- Conflicting attractions : parental wisdom and the 'strange woman' in Proverbs 1-9 / Christl Maier -- Qoheleth the 'old boy' and Qoheleth the 'new man' : misogynism, the womb and a paradox in Ecclesiastes / Eric S. Christianson -- 'Many devices' (Qoheleth 7.23-8.1) : Qoheleth, misogyny and the Malleus maleficarum / Carole R. Fontaine -- Wisdom literature among the witchmongers / Brian B. Noonan -- What about Job? Questioning the book of 'the righteous sufferer' / Christl Meier and Silvia Schroer -- Lady Wisdom and Dame Folly at Qumran / Sidnie White Crawford -- Aseneth as wisdom / Ross S. Kraemer -- 'O God, hear my prayer' : Psalm 55 and violence against women / Ulrike Bail -- 'Under the shadow of your wings' : the metaphor of God's wings in the Psalms, Exodus 19.4, Deuteronomy 32.11 and Malachi 3.20, as seen through the perspectives of feminism and the history of religion / Silvia Schroer -- Hearing the cries unspoken : an intertextual-feminist reading of Psalm 109 / Beth LaNeel Tanner.

Includes bibliography (pages [302]-320) and indexes.

Wisdom and creation / Roland E. Murphy -- A figure with many facets : the literary and theological functions of personified wisdom in Proverbs 1-9 / Gerlinde Baumann -- The gender and motives of the wisdom teacher in Proverbs 7 / Alice Ogden Bellis -- Conflicting attractions : parental wisdom and the 'strange woman' in Proverbs 1-9 / Christl Maier -- Qoheleth the 'old boy' and Qoheleth the 'new man' : misogynism, the womb and a paradox in Ecclesiastes / Eric S. Christianson -- 'Many devices' (Qoheleth 7.23-8.1) : Qoheleth, misogyny and the Malleus maleficarum / Carole R. Fontaine -- Wisdom literature among the witchmongers / Brian B. Noonan -- What about Job? Questioning the book of 'the righteous sufferer' / Christl Meier and Silvia Schroer -- Lady Wisdom and Dame Folly at Qumran / Sidnie White Crawford -- Aseneth as wisdom / Ross S. Kraemer -- 'O God, hear my prayer' : Psalm 55 and violence against women / Ulrike Bail -- 'Under the shadow of your wings' : the metaphor of God's wings in the Psalms, Exodus 19.4, Deuteronomy 32.11 and Malachi 3.20, as seen through the perspectives of feminism and the history of religion / Silvia Schroer -- Hearing the cries unspoken : an intertextual-feminist reading of Psalm 109 / Beth LaNeel Tanner.

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