Tobit and Judith / edited by Athalya Brenner-Idan ; with Helen Efthimiadis-Keith.
Contributor(s): Brenner, Athalya | Efthimiadis-Keith, Helen
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TextSeries: Feminist companion to the Bible: 2nd ser., 20.Publisher: London ; New York : Bloomsbury T & T Clark, 2015Description: xix, 277 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780567656001; 0567656004Other title: Feminist companion to Tobit and Judith [Cover title]Subject(s): Tobit (Biblical figure) | Judith (Biblical figure) | Bible. Tobit -- Feminist criticism | Bible. Judith -- Feminist criticism | Women in the BibleBibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.| Item type | Current library | Shelving location | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Part 1: Tobit: on religious identity, gender and food -- Redrawing the boundaries: a new look at 'diaspora as metaphor: bodies and boundaries in the book of Tobit' / Amy-Jill Levine -- Jewish self-awareness, religious identity and acts of resistance as reflected in the book of Tobit / Renate Egger-Wenzel -- Patriarchy with a twist: men and women in Tobit / Beverly Bow and George W.E. Nickelsburg -- Does the 'twist' point to heterarchy? A response to Beverly Bow and George Nickelsburg / Athalya Brenner-Idan -- The banishment of the demon in Tobit: textual variants as a result of enculturation / Beate Ego -- A self-response to 'textual variants' / Beate Ego -- Seen and heard, but hardly eating: female consumption in the book of Tobit / Naomi S.S. Jacobs -- Food and death: an autobiographic perspective on Tobit according to one woman's binge-eating disorder / Helen Efthimiadis-Keith -- Part 2: What can we do with Judith? -- What shall we do with Judith? A feminist assessment of a biblical 'heroine' / Pamela J. Milne -- A self-response: what would I do with Judith now? / Pamela J. Milne -- Judith, feminist ethics, and feminist biblical/Hebrew Bible interpretation / Helen Efthimiadis-Keith -- The function of the speeches and prayers in the book of Judith / Barbara Schmitz -- Judith: a pious widow turned femme fatale, or more? / Ora Brison -- Judith the slaveholder / Jennifer A. Glancy -- Clothing seduces: did you think it was naked flesh that did it? / Athalya Brenner-Idan -- Words and deeds: seduction and power in Judith and Death proof / Jan Willem van Henten -- Violent superwomen: super heroes or super villains? Judith, Wonder Woman and Lynndie England / Emma England -- Second thoughts on female terrorists and more: a self-response / Emma England.