A Feminist Companion to Genesis

This volume in the acclaimed feminist companion to the bible series, edited by Athalya Brenner, draws together a range of leading biblical commentators to discuss one of the most challenging and fascinating biblical texts for feminist interpretation, the book of Genesis.>

Sommario

Abbreviations/
List of Contributors/ Athalya Brenner/ Introduction/
I Creation and Paradise Revisited/ Mary
Phil Korsak/ ...et GENETRIX/ Ronald A.
Simkins/ Gender Construction in the Yahwist Creation Myth/ Diane M. Sharon/ The Doom of Paradise:
Literary Patterns in Accounts of Paradise and Mortality in the Hebrew Bible and
the Ancient Near East/ II Mal(e)practices/ Ilona
N. Rashkow/ Daddy-Dearest and the 'Invisible Spirit of the Wine'/ Lyn M. Bechtel/ A Feminist Reading of
Genesis 19.1-11/ Carol Delaney/ Abraham
and the Seeds of Patriarchy/ Susanne
Scholz/ Through Whose Eyes? A 'Right' Reading of Genesis 34/ Mayer I. Gruber/ Gebesis 21.12: A New
Reading of an Ambiguous Text/ III Female Modes/ Danna Nolan Fewell/ Changing the Subject: Retelling the Story of
Hagar the Egyptian/ Phyllis Silverman
Kramer/ The Dismissal of Hagar in Five Art Works of the Sixteenth and
Seventeenth Centuries/ Phyllis Silverman
Kramer/ Biblical Women that Come in Pairs: The Use of Female Pairs as a
Literary Device in the Hebrew Bible/ J.
E. Lapsley/ The Voice of Rachel: Resistance and Polyphony in Genesis 31.14-35/
Bibliography/ Index of References/ Index of Authors

Info autore

Athalya Brenner is Professor of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies, University of Amsterdam, and Rosalyn and Manny Rosenthal Distinguished Professor-in-Residence of Hebrew Bible at Brite Divinity School, Fort Worth, Texas.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Athalya Brenner-Idan
• Con la collaborazione di: Athalya Brenner (Editore), Athalya Brenner-Idan (Editore)
• Editore: Bloomsbury Academic
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 01.05.1998
• EAN: 9781850758389
• ISBN: 978-1-85075-838-9
• Pagine: 276
• Serie: Feminist Companion to the Bibl; Feminist Companion to the Bibl; Feminist Companion to the Bible: Second Series
• Categorie: Saggistica > Filosofia, religione > Religione: tematiche generali, opere di consultazione; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia > Analisi delle strutture sociali; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Religione / teologia > Cristianesimo; Kritik und Exegese heiliger Texte, Soziale und ethische Themen, Feminismus und feministische Theorie