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This valuable resource both presents and demonstrates the numerous
developments in feminist criticsm of the Bible and the enormous
rage of influence that feminist criticism has come to have in
biblical studies.
The purpose of the book is to raise issues of method that are
largely glossed over or merely implied n most non-feminist works on
the Bible. The editors hve inclded broadly theoretical essays on
feminist methods and the various roels they may play in research
and pedagogy, as well as non-feminist essays that hae direct
bearing on the methods or subject matter that feminists use, as
well as reading that illustrate the variety of methodological
strategies adopted by feminist scholars.
Some 30 scholars, from North America and Europe, have contributed
to this Companion.
The Texts @ Contexts series gathers scholarly voices from diverse
contexts and social locations to bring new or unfamiliar facets of
biblical texts to light. Exodus and Deuteronomy focuses attention
on two books of the Torah that share themes of journey and of
diverse experiences in or upon the land; the echoes of the exodus
across time, space, and culture; of different understandings of
(male and female) leadership; and of the promise, and problem,
posed by various aspects of biblical law. These essays de-center
the often homogeneous first-world orientation of much biblical
scholarship and open up new possibilities for discovery.
This volume brings together disparate views about biblical texts in
the books of Samuel, Chronicles and Ezra-Nehemiah and examines
their influence in the life of contemporary communities,
demonstrating how today's environments and disorders help readers
to acquire new insights into such texts. The contributing scholars
hail from different continents - from East Asia to the United
States to Europe to South Africa and Israel - and count themselves
as members of various Jewish and Christian traditions or secularist
ways of life. But, in spite of their differences in location and
community membership, and perhaps in the spirit of the times (2020
and its global discontents), they share preoccupations with
questions of ethics in politics and life, 'proper' death, violence
and social exclusion or inclusion. This volume offers readers a
better understanding of how politics and faith can be melded, both
in ancient and contemporary contexts, to serve the interests of
certain classes and societies, often at the expense of others.
The Texts @ Contexts series gathers scholarly voices from diverse
contexts and social locations to bring new or unfamiliar facets of
biblical texts to light. Leviticus and Numbers focuses attention on
practices and ideals of behavior in community, from mourning and
diet to marriages licit and transgressive, examining all of these
from a variety of global perspectives and postcolonial and feminist
methods. How do we deal with the apparent cultural distances
between ourselves and these ancient writings; what can we learn
from their visions of human dwelling on the earth? Like other
volumes in the Texts @ Contexts series, these essays de-center the
often homogeneous first-world orientation of much biblical
scholarship and open up new possibilities for discovery.
In this volume scholarly voices from diverse contexts and social
locations are gathered together to bring new or unfamiliar facets
of biblical texts to light, focusing on issues of intertextuality.
Samuel, Kings and Chronicles I sheds light from new perspectives on
themes in these so-called historical books including Asian American
and Chinese readings, issues of land, genealogy and maleness. The
authors challenge us to consider how we deal with cultural
distances between ourselves and these ancient writings - and
between one another in the contemporary world. These goal of these
essays is de-centre the often homogeneous first-world orientation
of much biblical scholarship and open to up new possibilities for
discovery of meaning and method.
In this collection, scholars from diverse geographical locations
revisit a cluster of five biblical texts: Ruth, Song of Songs,
Qoheleth (Ecclesiastes), Lamentations and Esther. The volume
presents various viewpoints and contexts-geographical, communal,
religious, social, economical and ethical. Matching scholarship
with social awareness, the contributors keep asking themselves and
their readers a dual-faced question: how does our life context
influence our scholarly and non-scholarly readings of the Bible,
and how does reading the Bible critically influence our life? To
answer this question and to show it at work the contributors employ
a range of contextual lenses. Geography is a major factor of the
contributors' contexts - with contributors from South Africa,
Argentina, Israel, the Pacific Islands - but not the only one to
influence their readings. Issues of society, culture and community
are at the foreground for all contributors and their reading
agendas with specific focus on the AIDs crisis in Africa, issues of
migration and asylum, and feminist approaches to biblical texts.
In this volume scholarly voices from diverse contexts and social
locations are gathered together to bring new or unfamiliar facets
of biblical texts to light, focusing on issues of intertextuality.
Samuel, Kings and Chronicles I sheds light from new perspectives on
themes in these so-called historical books including Asian American
and Chinese readings, issues of land, genealogy and maleness. The
authors challenge us to consider how we deal with cultural
distances between ourselves and these ancient writings - and
between one another in the contemporary world. These goal of these
essays is de-centre the often homogeneous first-world orientation
of much biblical scholarship and open to up new possibilities for
discovery of meaning and method.
This volume brings together fourteen essays by Israeli, European
and American scholars honouring the distinct contribution of Yairah
Amit to the literary study of the Hebrew Bible and to her public
role, fostering especially the place of the Hebrew Bible in Israeli
education. In biblical studies she has made significant
contributions to the study of redactional and editorial activity,
which she has always viewed from a rhetorical and literary point of
view. These aspects were uniquely developed in her work on the
books of Judges and Chronicles, in which literary considerations
always lead to the recognition of the ideology behind the
redactor's work. Another key theme of hers has been overt and
hidden polemics expressed or suggested by the narrative text. The
studies assembled in the present volume deal with the many aspects
of Amit's work, from the biblical and post-biblical down to the
mediaeval and the modern period. Central fields are the art of the
redactor and inner-biblical polemics (Diana Edelman, Cynthia
Edenburg, Nadav Na'aman, Meira Polliack, Dalit Rom-Shiloni),
literary scrutiny (Ed Greenstein, Lillian Klein Abensohn, Frank
Polak), ideology in social and religious contexts (Ehud Ben Zvi,
Israel Knohl), and feminist and cultural studies in a wider sense
(Athalya Brenner, Cheryl Exum, Yael Feldman, Shulamit Valler).
Memory-'authentic', manufactured, imagined, innocent or
deliberate-becomes remembrance through its performance, that is,
through being narrated orally or in writing. And when it is
narrated, memory becomes a shaper of identities and a social agent,
a tool for shaping a community's present and future as much as, if
not more so, than a near-simplistic recording of past history and a
sense of belonging. In this volume, various aspects of narrated
'memories' in the Bible and beyond it are examined for their
literary and sociological charge within biblical literature as well
as in its cultural afterlives-Jewish, Christian and 'secular'. From
inner-biblical memory shaping claims to contemporaneous retellings,
the shifts of tradition to story are explored for ways, means and
aims that, authorially intentional or otherwise, become influential
in adapting the Bible for the postmodern scene and adapting the
postmodern scene to the Bible. This compilation of articles is the
result of a collective research project with participants from the
University of Amsterdam and Utrecht University (The Netherlands),
Tel Aviv University and Haifa University (Israel), Poznan
University (Poland), Bowdoin College and Brite Divinity School
(USA). This is Volume 3 in the subseries Amsterdam Studies in the
Bible and Religion.
The format of the new The Bible in the 21st Century series reflects
an international dialogue between experts and graduate students. In
this book, experts on Bible translations present essays on the
practices of translating the Bible for the present and the future,
through Christian and Jewish approaches, in Western Europe and
North America as well as in the former Eastern Bloc and in Africa.
Each paper is paired with a response. The international
contributors here include Adele Berlin, John Rogerson, Robert
Carroll, Mary Phil Korsak, Everett Fox, Jeremy Punt and Athalya
Brenner, and the debate is prefaced with an introduction by the
Editors.>
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.
Biblical humor about women and gender remains elusive for many
readers, for its recognition may imply the realization that it's a
cruel and disrespectful humor, ridicule rather than good-natured
fun. But viewing humor as social critique, as is largely done in
the essays in this volume, with respect to both the texts read and
their actual or implied author, may be fun as well as significant
for understanding the biblical worlds. As most of the essays show,
writing about women is writing about men as well. In other words,
it is writing about gender roles. The critique of women, womanhood
and femaleness implied by biblical and related texts serves, in
equal measure, as a critique of men, manhood and maleness in the
texts, of the texts authors, and of the texts' commentators and
readers. Contributors include Scott Spencer, Mary Shields, Kathleen
O'Connor, Toni Craven, Kathy Williams, Athalya Brenner, Gale Yee,
Amy-Jill Levine, and Esther Fuchs.
Biblical humor about women and gender remains elusive for many
readers, for its recognition may imply the realization that itGCOs
a cruel and disrespectful humor, ridicule rather than good-natured
fun. But viewing humor as social critique, as is largely done in
the essays in this volume, with respect to both the texts read and
their actual or implied author, may be fun as well as significant
for understanding the biblical worlds. As most of the essays show,
writing about women is writing about men as well. In other words,
it is writing about gender roles. The critique of women, womanhood
and femaleness implied by biblical and related texts serves, in
equal measure, as a critique of men, manhood and maleness in the
texts, of the texts authors, and of the textsGCO commentators and
readers. Contributors include Scott Spencer, Mary Shields, Kathleen
OGCOConnor, Toni Craven, Kathy Williams, Athalya Brenner, Gale Yee,
Amy-Jill Levine, and Esther Fuchs.
This collection of studies, reflecting developments in feminist
exegesis over the last few years in Europe and the United States,
includes treatments of key female figures ('Tamar and the Coat of
Many Colours' by Adrien Janis Bledstein; 'Michal, the Barren Wife'
by Lillian R. Klein; 'On Centering a Fringe Figure: The Wife of
Jeroboam in 1 Kings 14:1-18' by Uta Schmidt; 'The Widow of
Zarephath and the Great Woman of Shunem: A Comparative Analysis of
Two Stories' by Jopie Siebert-Hommes), and a new examination of a
biblical threesome, 'Saul, David and Jonathan: The Story of a
Triangle? A Contribution to the Issue of Homosexuality in the First
Testament' by Silvia Schroer and Thomas Staubli.
The ten essays in this volume, the majority specially written,
engage with questions of voice (whose?) and interplay (what kind?)
between received interpretation and resisting female reader, and
venture into methodological territory familiar and unfamiliar to
biblical scholars, including autobiographical criticism. Among
earlier readers invoked in these pages are Jerome, Rashi and Fray
Luis de LTon, who brush pages with Haitian prostitutes. The three
sections of this fresh, colourful and adventurous journey into
love, sex, allegory and self inside the Most Sublime Song are:
Feminist Appropriations; Specific Readings: Allegories and
Feminists; and The Song of Songs Personalized.
The second series of Feminist Companions moves beyond the confines
of sex- and gender-specific issues and studies of biblical women.
Biblical feminist critics now address contemporary life situations,
marginalization and a range of questions once not thought
accessible to such critique. Feminist theory has also continued a
rapid evolution. Among the topics included in this volume are
composition, Torah, Ruth-the-Cat, female networking-together with
much else to inform and stimulate female (and male) biblical
scholars and non-scholars.
The second volume of the series takes up que stions of voice,
exclusion and construction as well as the r einforcement of the
world views that have a legacy of contin ued gender asymmetry in
Judaism and Christianity. '
Since the publication of the first Genesis volume in The Feminist
Companion series in 1993, feminist scholars have become both
prolific and better recognized, and it has now become possible to
present a new volume on Genesis, consisting of recent unpublished
essays on the topic. The essays in this collection are grouped
under the headings 'Creation and Paradise Revisited',
'Mal�e�Practices' and 'Female Modes' and are written from
perspectives gleaned from disciplines such as psychology, art
history and art criticism, sociology, anthropology and literary
criticism. Some of the essays presented here constitute a dialogue
with earlier papers in the first Genesis companion, making the two
volumes an indispensable resource for reclaiming the female
heritage found in the book of Genesis.
This volume is part of a series which provides a fundamental
resource for feminist biblical scholarship, containing a
comprehensive selection of essays, both reprinted and specially
written for the series, by leading feminist scholars. The
contributors to this volume are Lyn Bechtel, Mark Bredin, Athalya
Brenner, Edna Brocke, Carole Fontaine, Lillian Klein, Amy-Jill
Levine, Judith Lieu, Heather McKay, Adele Reinhartz, Jane Schaberg,
Marla Selvidge, Leonore Siegele-Wenschkewitz, Beverly Stratton,
Arie Troost, Pieter van der Horst, and Bea Wyler. >
Provides feminist approaches to Wisdom Literature from leading
scholars of the Hebrew Bible and feminist hermeneutics. >
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.
Do we confront in these three characters feminist heroines or
patriarchally idealised stooges? From the worldly Esther to the
piously devout Susanna via the militant widow, these female figures
appear both as meticulously sculpted individuals.
This volume is part of a series which provides a fundamental
resource for feminist biblical scholarship, containing a
comprehensive selection of essays, both reprinted and specially
written for the series, by leading feminist scholars. The essays in
this volume deal with social status and female sexuality, the
textual figure of 'the daughter' and the character of Miriam. 'An
enterprising series of collections of important and pioneering
studies.... Those teaching feminist courses will find the books
invaluable as a resource for students' (C.S. Rodd, Expository
Times). >
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