Feminist Companion to Wisdom Literature by Athalya Brenner-Idan (University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands)
Provides feminist approaches to Wisdom Literature from leading scholars of the Hebrew Bible and feminist hermeneutics.
Feminist Companion to Wisdom Literature
Feminist Companion to Wisdom Literature
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About Athalya Brenner-Idan (University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands)
Athalya Brenner-Idan is Professor Emerita of the HB\\OT Chair at the Universiteit van Amsterdam, The Netherlands; and currently Professor in Biblical Studies at the Department of Hebrew Culture Studies, Tel Aviv University, Israel, and Research Associate at the Biblia Arabica Project there. In addition, she is Extraordinary Professor at the Department of OT/NT, Faculty of Theology, Stellenbosch University, South Africa. Her website is http://athalya-morah-letorah.com.
Table of Contents
Abbreviations / Athalya Brenner Introduction Part I Women and Wisdom: Social Roles and Literary Figurations / Carole R. Fontaine The Social Roles of Women in the World of Wisdom / Athalya Brenner Some Observations on the Figurations of Woman in Wisdom Literature / Silvia Schroer Wise and Counselling Women in Ancient Israel: Literary and Historical Ideals of the Personified hokma / Schulamit Valler Who is eset hayil in Rabbinic Literature? Part II Wisdom and Otherness: The Case of the Issa Zara / Mieke Heijerman Who Would Blame Her? The 'Strange' Woman of Proverbs / Gale A. Yee 'I Have Perfumed My Bed with Myrrh': The Foreign Woman (issa zara) in Proverbs 1-9 / Gale A. Yee The Socio-Literary Production of the 'Foreign Woman' in Proverbs / Claudia V. Camp Wise and Strange: An Interpretation of the Female Imagery in Proverbs in Light of Trickster Mythology / Harold C. Washington The Strange Woman of Proverbs 1-9 and Post-Exilic Judaean Society Part III On the Book of Job / Lillian R. Klein Job and the Womb: Text about Men, Subtext about Women / Ellen van Wolde The Development of Job: Mrs Job as Catalyst / Lyn M. Bechtel A Feminist Approach to the Book of Job Bibliography
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NLS9781850757351
9781850757351
1850757356
Feminist Companion to Wisdom Literature by Athalya Brenner-Idan (University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands)
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
1995-11-01
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