Bach Women in the Hebrew Bible

A Reader
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-1-135-23875-9
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 566 Seiten

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bach, Alice

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction:
Women's World, Man's Place: Sexual Politics in the Hebrew Bible
Alice Bach
The Social World of Women in Ancient Israel
:Phyllis Bird--The Place of Women in the Israelite Cultus
Susan Ackerman--"And the Women Knead Dough": The Worship of the Queen of Heaven in Sixth-Century Judah
Carol Myers--Women and the Domestic Economy of Early Israel
Esther Fuchs--Structural and Patriarchal Functions in the Biblical Betrothal Type-Scene: Some Preliminary Notes
Howard Eilberg-Schwartz--:The Problem of the Body for the People of the Book
Reading Women into Biblical Narratives
Esther Fuchs--Status and Role of Female Heroines in the Biblical Narrative
Carol A. Newsom--Woman and the Discourse of Patriarchal Wisdom: A Study of Proverbs 1-9
Phyllis Bird--The Harlot and Heroine: Narrative Art and Social Presupposition in Three Old Testament Texts
Nelly Furman--His Story Versus Her Story: Male Genealogy and Female Strategy in the Jacob Cycle
Esther Fuchs--The Literary Characterization of Mothers and Sexual Politics in the Hebrew Bible
:J. Cheryl Exum--Who's Afraid of "The Endangered Ancestress?"
Goddess and Women of Magic
Carole R. Fontaine--:A Heifer from Thy Stable: On Goddesses and the Status of Women in the Ancient Near East
Susan Ackerman--The Queen Mother and the Cult in Ancient Israel
Claudia V. Champ--The Wise Women on 2 Samuel: A Role Model for Women in Early Israel?
Rereading Women in the Bible
Edward L. Greenstein--Reading Strategies and the Story of Ruth
Danna Nolan Fewell and David M. Gunn--"A Son is Born to Naomi!": Literary Allusions and Interpretation in the Book of Ruth
Reuven Kimelman--The Seduction of Even and the Exegetical Politics of Gender
Phyllis Trible--Genesis 22: The Sacrifice of Sarah
Sexual Politics in the Hebrew Bible
Tikva Frymer-Kensky--Law and Philosophy: The Case of Sex in the Bible
Susan Niditch--Eroticism and Death in the Tale of Jael
Mieke Bal --Dealing/With/Women: Daughters in the Book of Judges
Regina M. Schwartz--Adultery in the House of David: The Metanarrative of Biblical Scholarship and the Narratives of the Bible
Alice Bach--Signs of the Flesh: Observations on Characterization in the Bible
Amy-Jill Levine--Sacrifice and Salvation: Otherness and Domestication in the Book of Judith
Mark Stephen Caponigro--Judith, Holding the Tale of Herodotus
Feminist Identities in Biblical Interpretation
Alice Bach--Rereading the Body Politic: Women and Violence in Judges
Judith Plaskow--Transforming the Nature of Community: Toward a Feminist People of Israel
Alice Bach--With a Song in Her Heart: Listening to Scholars Listening to Miriam
Elly Elshour, facilitator--Roundtable Discussion: Women with Disabilities-A Challenge to Feminist Theology
A Case History: Numbers 5:11-31
Introduction to A Case History
Tikva Frymer-Kensky--The Strange Case of the Suspected Sotah (Numbers V 11-31)
Jacob Milgrom--The Case of the Suspected Adulteress, Numbers 5:11-31:Redaction and Meaning
Jack Sasson--Numbers 5 and the "Waters of Judgement"
Michael Fishbane--Accusation of Adultery: A Study of Law and Scribal Practice in Numbers 5:11-31
Alice Bach--Good to the Last Drop: Viewing the Sotah (Numbers 5:11-31) as the Glass is Half Empty and Wondering How to View It Half Full

Über Autor(innen)

Alice Bach is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Stanford University and the editor of Biblicon, a journal of Bible, media, and culture. She is the author of Women, Seduction, and Betrayal in Biblical Narrative (1997) as well as numerous award-winning children's books.
is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Stanford University. She is the author of Women, Seduction, and Betrayal in Biblical Narrative (1997) and editor of several scholarly articles, including Biblical Glamour and Hollywood Glitz. She is also the author of numerous award-winning children's books.