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Women in the Hebrew Bible presents the first broad overview covering the place of women in the writings in the Old Testament.
"Women in the Hebrew Bible" presents the first one-volume overview
covering the interpretation of women's place in man's world within
the Hebrew Bible or Old Testament. Written by the major scholars in
the field of biblical studies and literary theory, these essays
examine attitudes toward women and their status in ancient Near
Eastern societies, focusing on the Israelite society portrayed by
the Hebrew Bible.
Feminist analysis of the Bible offers clues for the beginnings of
gender bias in Western culture. Metaphors and literary persona from
those ancient writings permeate Western literature and haunt our
collective unconscious. The essays range from feminist strategies
for understanding the social world at the time of the production of
the Hebrew Bible to interpretations of key female literary figures
such as Ruth, Esther, Judith, Sarah, Rachel and Leah, the unnamed
daughter of Jephthah, and the unnamed Levite's concubine in the
book of Judges.
A case history of five essays presents different perspectives and
interpretations of one passage, Numbers 5: 16 - 31, the so-called
"Sotah text." These articles show how critical interpretive
perspectives are to reading and understanding a biblical text.
"Women in the Hebrew Bible" offers a stellar selection of the most
important writings about the social, cultural and gender codes
reflected in Biblical texts.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
Religion has gone public; and the much-discussed political pendulum
has been swinging widely in its effort to keep up with the
eruptions of faith swelling the broadband. Private faith finds very
public outlets through the media's appetite for voices and choices.
Faith-based networks have become media-savvy, urging their members
to send barrages of emails, faxes, telephone calls, letters of
praise or outrage to politicians. Those same politicians return the
volley, using the broadcast media with great skill, wooing the
faithful, convincing the cynical that God is on their side. Only a
deity could be on so many sides simultaneously. Alice Bach's new
book reflects her long-time focus on the Bible, religion and
culture. Popular religion is expressed within our culture in rock
videos, televangelism, political rhetoric, children's books, films
and animations. Every sort of media from print to electronic to
broadband is imbued with subtle and blatant religious imagery. The
media are new; the message is not. The tightly woven pattern of
religion, politics and media has been part of the American fabric
since the country was founded. When one examines this cultural
cloth, threads of varying colours are revealed, threads whose
twists reflect both media coverage of religion and religious views
of the media.
These essay in honour of Professor Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza
draw on international feminist scholarship indebted to her
ground-breaking achievements in the areas of biblical studies,
feminist thought and social justice. The contributors represent a
wide variety of backgrounds, commitments, methodologies, talents
and interests. They are united here by their appreciation for her
as a scholar, teacher, mentor, colleague and friend. The spectrum
is full of vitality, with important convergences and intersections.
It exemplifies what Schussler Fiorenza has called "critical
collaboration": women thinking together and creating together. This
Festschrift is unique in that it celebrates the work of all women
in the field.
This accessible, readable book breaks new ground in the cultural study of the Bible, challenging the traditional mode of reading the women in the Bible. Using the stories of the "wicked" literary figures in the Bible--the wife of Potiphar, Bathshebha, Delilah and Salomé--Bach argues that biblical characters have a "life" in the mind of the reader independent of the stories in which they were created. Thus, the reader becomes the site at which the texts and the cultures that produced them come together.
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