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Women in the Hebrew Bible: a reader
Publisher
Routledge
Publication Date
1999
Language
English
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From the Book
Introduction. Man's world, women's place : sexual politics in the Hebrew Bible / Alice Bach
The
social world of women in ancient Israel. The place of women in the Israelite cultus / Phyllis Bird
"And the women knead dough" : the worship of the Queen of Heaven in sixth-century Judah / Susan Ackerman
Women and the domestic economy of early Israel / Carol Meyers
Structure and patriarchal functions in the biblical betrothal type-scene : some preliminary notes / Esther Fuchs
The
problem of the body for the people of the book / Howard Eilberg-Schwartz
Reading women into biblical narratives. Status and role of female heroines in the biblical narrative / Esther Fuchs
Woman and the discourse of patriarchal wisdom : a study of Proverbs 1-9 / Carol A. Newsom.
harlot as heroine : narrative art and social presupposition in three Old Testament texts / Phyllis Bird
His story versus her story : male genealogy and female strategy in the Jacob cycle / Nelly Furman
The
literary characterization of mothers and sexual politics in the Hebrew Bible / Esther Fuchs
Who's afraid of "the endangered ancestress"? / J. Cheryl Exum
Goddesses and women of magic. A heifer from thy stable : on goddesses and the status of women in the ancient Near East / Carole R. Fontaine
The
Queen Mother and the cult in ancient Israel / Susan Ackerman
The
wise women of 2 Samuel : a role model for women in early Israel? / Claudia V. Camp
Rereading women in the Bible. Reading strategies and the story of Ruth / Edward L. Greenstein.
"A son is born to Naomi!" : literary allusions and interpretation in the Book of Ruth / Danna Nolan Fewell and David M. Gunn
The
seduction of Eve and the exegetical politics of gender / Reuven Kimelman
Genesis 22 : the sacrifice of Sarah / Phyllis Trible
Sexual politics in the Hebrew Bible. Law and philosophy : the case of sex in the Bible / Tikva Frymer-Kensky
Eroticism and death in the tale of Jael / Susan Niditch
Dealing with women : daughters in the Book of Judges / Mieke Bal
Adultery in the House of David : the metanarrative of biblical scholarship and the narratives of the Bible / Regina M. Schwartz
Signs of the flesh : observations on characterization in the Bible / Alice Bach
Sacrifice and salvation : otherness and domestication in the Book of Judith / Amy-Jill Levine.
Judith, holding the tale of Herodotus / Mark Stephen Caponigro
Feminist identities in biblical interpretation. Rereading the body politic : women and violence in Judges 21 / Alice Bach
Transforming the nature of community : toward a feminist people of Israel / Judith Plaskow
With a song in her heart : listening to scholars listening for Miriam / Alice Bach
Roundtable discussion : women with disabilities, a challenge to feminist theology / Elly Elshout, facilitator
A
case history : Numbers 5:11-31. The strange case of the suspected Sotah (Numbers V 11-31) / Tikva Frymer-Kensky
The
case of the suspected adulteress, Numbers 5:11-31 : redaction and meaning / Jacob Milgrom
Numbers 5 and the "waters of judgment" / Jack Sasson.
Accusations of adultery : a study of law and scribal practice in Numbers 5:11-31 / Michael Fishbane
Good to the last drop : viewing the Sotah (Numbers 5.11-31) as the glass half empty and wondering how to view it half full / Alice Bach.
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