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

Contributor(s): Brenner, Athalya | Fontaine, Carole R
Material type: TextTextPublisher: London, England ; Chicago, Ill. : Fitzroy Dearborn, 2001Copyright date: ©1997Description: 654 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 1579583504 (alk. paper); 9781579583507 (alk. paper)Subject(s): Bible -- Feminist criticismDDC classification: 220.6/082 Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Introduction / Athalya Brenner -- Feminist criticism and Biblical studies on the verge of the twenty-first century / Adele Reinhartz -- Toward feminist companionship : the future of feminist Biblical studies and feminism / Pamela J. Milne -- On the future of feminist Biblical criticism / Heather A. McKay -- The abusive Bible : on the use of feminist method in pastoral contexts / Carole R. Fontaine -- Challenged by the text : interpreting two stories of incest in the Hebrew Bible / Carol Smith -- Identifying the speaker-in-the-text and the reader's location in prophetic texts : the case of Isaiah 50 / Athalya Brenner -- Response to Brenner's 'identifying the speaker-in-the-text' / Carole R. Fontaine -- An approach to a critical, feminist, theological reading of the Bible / Sharon H. Ringe -- A triple hermeneutic : scripture and revisionist women's poetry / Alicia Suskin Ostriker --
Overcoming the teaching of contempt / Katharina Von Kellenbach -- Overlapping communities and multicultural hermeneutics / Kwok Pui-Lan -- Feminist research and ancient Mesopotamia : problems and prospects / Julia M. Asher-Greve -- Engendering creation in Ancient Egypt : still and flowing waters / Lana Troy -- Recovering objects, re-visioning subjects : archaeology and feminist Biblical study / Carol Meyers -- An iconographic approach to Genesis 38 / Eleanor Ferris Beach -- Family violence in cross-cultural perspective : an approach for feminist interpreters of the Bible / John J. Pilch -- Septuagint and gender studies : the very beginning of a promising liaison / Kristin De Troyer -- Surviving Lamentations / Tod Linafelt -- From goddess to literary construct : the transformation of Asherah into Hokmah / Judith M. Hadley --
Lady wisdom : a polytheistic and psychological interpretation of a Biblical goddess / Bernhard Lang -- Intertextuality : Ruth in dialogue with Tamar / Ellen Van Wolde -- Rachel weeping for her children : intertextuality and the Biblical testaments - a feminist approach / Elaine Wainwright -- Rabbinic interpretation of scripture / Judith Hauptman -- Rabbis, feminists and patriarchy's ordinariness / Miriam Peskowitz -- Torah study and the making of Jewish gender / Daniel Boyarin -- Reflections on David / David Gunn -- 'My' Song of Songs / Athalya Brenner -- Editor's preface to Claus Westermann's 'Beauty in the Hebrew Bible' / Carole R. Fontaine -- Beauty in the Hebrew Bible / Claus Westermann.
Holdings
Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book John Bulow Campbell Library 1 East BS521.4 .F45 2001 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 0182903125967
Reference Reference John Bulow Campbell Library Reference BS521.4 .F45 2001 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 2 Not for loan 0182903052351

Originally published : Sheffield, England : Sheffield Academic Press, 1997.

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction / Athalya Brenner -- Feminist criticism and Biblical studies on the verge of the twenty-first century / Adele Reinhartz -- Toward feminist companionship : the future of feminist Biblical studies and feminism / Pamela J. Milne -- On the future of feminist Biblical criticism / Heather A. McKay -- The abusive Bible : on the use of feminist method in pastoral contexts / Carole R. Fontaine -- Challenged by the text : interpreting two stories of incest in the Hebrew Bible / Carol Smith -- Identifying the speaker-in-the-text and the reader's location in prophetic texts : the case of Isaiah 50 / Athalya Brenner -- Response to Brenner's 'identifying the speaker-in-the-text' / Carole R. Fontaine -- An approach to a critical, feminist, theological reading of the Bible / Sharon H. Ringe -- A triple hermeneutic : scripture and revisionist women's poetry / Alicia Suskin Ostriker --

Overcoming the teaching of contempt / Katharina Von Kellenbach -- Overlapping communities and multicultural hermeneutics / Kwok Pui-Lan -- Feminist research and ancient Mesopotamia : problems and prospects / Julia M. Asher-Greve -- Engendering creation in Ancient Egypt : still and flowing waters / Lana Troy -- Recovering objects, re-visioning subjects : archaeology and feminist Biblical study / Carol Meyers -- An iconographic approach to Genesis 38 / Eleanor Ferris Beach -- Family violence in cross-cultural perspective : an approach for feminist interpreters of the Bible / John J. Pilch -- Septuagint and gender studies : the very beginning of a promising liaison / Kristin De Troyer -- Surviving Lamentations / Tod Linafelt -- From goddess to literary construct : the transformation of Asherah into Hokmah / Judith M. Hadley --

Lady wisdom : a polytheistic and psychological interpretation of a Biblical goddess / Bernhard Lang -- Intertextuality : Ruth in dialogue with Tamar / Ellen Van Wolde -- Rachel weeping for her children : intertextuality and the Biblical testaments - a feminist approach / Elaine Wainwright -- Rabbinic interpretation of scripture / Judith Hauptman -- Rabbis, feminists and patriarchy's ordinariness / Miriam Peskowitz -- Torah study and the making of Jewish gender / Daniel Boyarin -- Reflections on David / David Gunn -- 'My' Song of Songs / Athalya Brenner -- Editor's preface to Claus Westermann's 'Beauty in the Hebrew Bible' / Carole R. Fontaine -- Beauty in the Hebrew Bible / Claus Westermann.

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