Studies in Bible and Feminist Criticism

Informationen zum Autor Tikva Frymer-Kensky is a professor of Hebrew Bible and the History of Judaism at the University of Chicago Divinity School. Her areas of specialization include Assyriology and Sumerology! biblical studies! Jewish studies! and women and religion. She is the author of Reading the Women of the Bible (which received a Koret Jewish Book Award in 2002 and a National Jewish Book Award in 2003)! In the Wake of the Goddesses! and Motherprayer. She holds an M.A. and a Ph.D. from Yale University. Zusammenfassung Part of the "JPS Scholar of Distinction" series, this title deals with the Bible as interpreted through ancient Near-Eastern creation myths, flood myths, and goddess myths; gender in the Bible; the feminist approach to Jewish law; comparative Jewish and Christian perspectives on the Hebrew Bible; biblical perspectives on ecology; and more.

Product details

• Authors: Tikva Frymer-Kensky, Tikva Simone Frymer-kensky, Tikvah Frymer-Kensky
• Publisher: Jewish Publications Society
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.03.2006
• EAN: 9780827607989
• ISBN: 978-0-8276-0798-9
• No. of pages: 277
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 229 mm x 44 mm
• Series: JPS Scholar of Distinction; A JPS Scholar of Distinction Book; JPS Scholar of Distinction; JPS Scholar of Distinction Boo
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Judaism; Judentum, Religion, allgemein, RELIGION / Judaism / General, RELIGION / Biblical Criticism & Interpretation / General, Religion - Judaism, RELIGION / Sexuality & Gender Studies