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The authoritative status of ''Prophecy'' in the Bible poses a challenge to the feminist readers. This challenge is sharpened by the widespread symbolism in prophetic discourse of woman, wife, mother, harlot and the use of what the volume call ''pornoprophetics''. In this collection it is the book of Hosea that attracts special attention, but there are also articles on sexual violence and an introductory essay on prophecy itself as a literary phenomenon. This Feminist Companion offers a sharp confrontation between the voice of the prophetic male and the resistance of the feminist reader.>
List of contents
Abbreviations/
Athalya Brenner/ Preface/
Athalya Brenner/ Introduction/ Part I/
The Case of 'Hosea'/
Carole R. Fontaine/ Hosea/
Carole R. Fontaine/ A Response to 'Hosea'/
Alice A. Keefe/ The Female Body, the
Body Politic and the Land: A Sociopolitical Reading of Hosea 1-2/
Yvonne Sherwood/ Boxing Gomer:
Controlling the Deviant Woman in Hosea 1-3/
Naomi
Graetz/ God is to Israel as Husband is to Wife: The Metaphoric Battering of
Hosea's Wife/
Francis Landy/ Fantasy
and the Displacement of Pleasure: Hosea 2.4-17/
John Goldingay/ Hosea 1-3, Genesis 1-4 and Masculist
Interpretation/
Mayer I. Gruber/ Marital
Fidelity and Intimacy: A View from Hosea 4/
Maragaret
S. Odell/ I Will Destroy Your Mother: The Obliteration of a Cultic Role in
Hosea 4.4-6/
Helen Schüngel-Straumann/ God
as Mother in Hosea 11/
Marie-Thieres
Wacker/ Traces of the Goddess in the Book of Hosea/ Part II/ On the Pornoprophetics
of Sexual Violence/
Fokkelien van
Dijk-Hemmes/ The Metaphorization of Woman in Prophetic Speech: An Analysis
of Ezekiel 23/
Athalya Brenner/ On
Prophetic Propaganda and the Politics of 'Love': The Case of Jeremiah/
Robert P. Carroll/ Desire under the
Terebinths: On Pornographic Representation in the Prophets - A Response/
Pamela Gordon and Harold C. Washington/ Rape
as a Military Metaphor in the Hebrew Bible/
F.
Rachel Magdalene/ Ancient Near Eastern Treaty-Curses and the Ultimate Texts
of Terror: A Study of the Language of Divine Sexual Abuse in the Prophetic
Corpus/ Part III/ Should We Trust the God of the Prophets?/
Nancy R. Bowen/ Can God be Trusted?
Confronting the Deceptiove God/ Bibliography
About the author
Athalya Brenner-Idan is Professor Emerita of the HB\OT Chair at the Universiteit van Amsterdam, The Netherlands; and currently Professor in Biblical Studies at the Department of Hebrew Culture Studies, Tel Aviv University, Israel, and Research Associate at the Biblia Arabica Project there. In addition, she is Extraordinary Professor at the Department of OT/NT, Faculty of Theology, Stellenbosch University, South Africa. Her website is http://athalya-morah-letorah.com.
