Feminist Companion to Genesis
Feminist Companion to Genesis
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Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN: 9781850758389
Number of Pages: 276
Published: 01/05/1998
Width: 13.8 cm
Height: 21.6 cm
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.
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
