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The Israelite Woman - Social Role and Literary Type in Biblical Narrative (Paperback, 2nd edition)
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The Israelite Woman - Social Role and Literary Type in Biblical Narrative (Paperback, 2nd edition)
Series: T&T Clark Cornerstones
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In the first edition of The Israelite Woman Athalya Brenner-Idan
provided the first book-length treatment by a feminist biblical
scholar of the female characters in the Hebrew Bible. Now, thirty
years later, Brenner provides a fresh take on this ground-breaking
work, considering how scholarly observation of female biblical
characters has changed and how it has not. Brenner-Idan also
provides a new and highly personal introduction to the book, which
details, perhaps surprisingly to present readers, what was at stake
for female biblical scholars looking to engage honestly in the
academic debate at the time in which the book was first written.
This will make difficult reading for some, particularly those whose
own views have not changed. The main part of the book presents
Brenner-Idans's now classic examination of the roles of women in
the society of ancient Israel, and the roles they play in the
biblical narratives. In Part I Brenner-Idan surveys what can be
known about the roles of queens, wise women, women poets and
authors, prophetesses, magicians, sorcerers and witches and female
prostitutes in Israelite society. In Part II the focus is on the
typical roles in which Hebrew women appear in biblical stories, as
mother of the hero, as temptress, as foreigner, and as ancestress.
In these narratives, for which there are standard plots and
structures and characterizations readily available, women play a
generally domestic role. Not only is the book a highly valuable
resource detailing the social role of women in ancient Israel, and
showing how the interpretation of women in the bible has been
influenced by convention, but it is also a challenging reminder of
how outdated attitudes can still prevail.
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