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The Israelite Woman

Social Role and Literary Type in Biblical Narrative

By: Athalya Brenner-Idan

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The Israelite Woman

Social Role and Literary Type in Biblical Narrative

By: Athalya Brenner-Idan

In the first edition of The Israelite Woman Athalya Brenner-Idan provided the first book-length treatment by a feminist biblical scholar of the female characters in the Hebrew Bible. Now, thirty years later, Brenner provides a fresh take on this ground-breaking work, considering how scholarly observation of female biblical characters has changed and how it has not. Brenner-Idan also provides a new and highly personal introduction to the book, which details, perhaps surprisingly to present readers, what was at stake for female biblical scholars looking to engage honestly in the academic debate at the time in which the book was first written. This will make difficult reading for some, particularly those whose own views have not changed. The main part of the book presents Brenner-Idans's now classic examination of the roles of women in the society of ancient Israel, and the roles they play in the biblical narratives. In Part I Brenner-Idan surveys what can be known about the roles of queens, wise women, women poets and authors, prophetesses, magicians, sorcerers and witches and female prostitutes in Israelite society. In Part II the focus is on the typical roles in which Hebrew women appear in biblical stories, as mother of the hero, as temptress, as foreigner, and as ancestress. In these narratives, for which there are standard plots and structures and characterizations readily available, women play a generally domestic role. Not only is the book a highly valuable resource detailing the social role of women in ancient Israel, and showing how the interpretation of women in the bible has been influenced by convention, but it is also a challenging reminder of how outdated attitudes can still prevail.

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0567657744

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I Am . . .

Biblical Women Tell Their Own Stories

By: Athalya Brenner

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I Am . . .

Biblical Women Tell Their Own Stories

By: Athalya Brenner

Athalya Brenner presents fictionalized "autobiographies" of a dozen women and women groups in the Hebrew Bible, and also lets them share a conversation session. This allows her to include how these women have been interpreted - not only in the Bible itself, but also in Jewish and Christian traditions and by modern commentators. The result is a thoroughly engaging and insightful look at women, from a leading biblical interpreter who has a very creative edge to all her work.

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Fortress Press

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1451403968

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Are We Amused?

Humour About Women In the Biblical World

By: Athalya Brenner-Idan

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Humour About Women In the Biblical World

By: Athalya Brenner-Idan

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.

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0826426271

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Exodus and Deuteronomy

By: Athalya Brenner,Gale A. Yee

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Exodus and Deuteronomy

By: Athalya Brenner,Gale A. Yee

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.

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The Israelite Woman

Social Role and Literary Type in Biblical Narrative

By: Athalya Brenner-Idan

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The Israelite Woman

Social Role and Literary Type in Biblical Narrative

By: Athalya Brenner-Idan

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Emil J. Gumbel

Weimar German Pacifist and Professor

By: Athalya Brenner

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Emil J. Gumbel

Weimar German Pacifist and Professor

By: Athalya Brenner

Emil J. Gumbel (1891-1966) began his career simply as a professor of mathematical statistics in Heidelberg, but he is most remembered as a political activist militantly advocating for pacifism during the complicated and volatile times of the Weimar Republic in Germany. As a Jew with left-wing socialist and democratic sensibilities, he was exiled to France and later America. Ironically, the same writings on political terror and politicized justice in Nazi Germany that caused his ostracization saved his life. A courageous man, Gumbel spoke out passionately against the Nazis and came to symbolize a 'one-man party' at the center of controversy in German academia. His intellectual and moral vigor never waned, and despite his significant scientific contributions, it is his legacy of political ideology that endures for later generations to learn from. This biography chronicles the public life of a man not entirely part of the political or the academic world, but who has earned his place in history nonetheless.

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9004475648

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Colour Terms in the Old Testament

By: Athalya Brenner-Idan

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Colour Terms in the Old Testament

By: Athalya Brenner-Idan

The OT semantic field of 'colour' is presented as a coherent, interdependent, and graded linguistic structure. The relevant lexical items are organized under the following categories: primary (basic) terms; secondary and tertiary terms; terms for pigments, dyes, painting and paints; and terms for stains, speckles, and other phenomena related to colour. Proper names, and names of objects which carry 'colour' associations are discussed as well. Many OT texts are discussed in detail. Finally, the OT colour field is compared to its Mishnaic Hebrew counterpart, and an Appendix dealing with the renewal of the same lexical sector within modern spoken Hebrew brings the study up to the present.

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I Am . . .

Biblical Women Tell Their Own Stories

By: Athalya Brenner

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Biblical Women Tell Their Own Stories

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Feminist Companion to the Latter Prophets

By: Athalya Brenner-Idan

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Feminist Companion to the Latter Prophets

By: Athalya Brenner-Idan

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.

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Are We Amused?

Humour About Women In the Biblical World

By: Athalya Brenner-Idan

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Humour About Women In the Biblical World

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On Gendering Texts

Female and Male Voices in the Hebrew Bible

By: ʻAtalyā Brenner,Fokkelien van Dijk Hemmes

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On Gendering Texts

Female and Male Voices in the Hebrew Bible

By: ʻAtalyā Brenner,Fokkelien van Dijk Hemmes

On Gendering Texts" is a wonderful book in a field that demonstrates its maturity by this publication. It discusses the important and traditional issue of authorship. Whereas the idea of a unique and divinely inspired biblical author has long been abandoned, the issue of authorship itself has not. The possibility that women might have contributed to the production of the Bible has not been taken seriously and yet the idea that everything is male unless otherwise proven is hardly acceptable. What can one do? The two authors of this book shrewdly displace the question. Rather than worrying about unprovable historical authors, they consider gender-positions; authority; gendered textuality and attributions of gender within the text; voice; world-view and ideological content. Each of these issues is important, and the gesture of raising them in connection with that of authorship alone makes this book worthwhile. This book is both unique and in line with a growing tradition; a climatic point in the developing area of feminist biblical study. [from the Foreword by Mieke Bal]

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9004106448

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Feminist Companion to Reading the Bible

Approaches, Methods And Strategies

By: Athalya Brenner-Idan,Carole Fontaine

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Feminist Companion to Reading the Bible

Approaches, Methods And Strategies

By: Athalya Brenner-Idan,Carole Fontaine

A Feminist Companion to Reading the Bible: Approaches, Methods and Strategies forms a conclusion to the series of 10 volumes published in the groundbreaking Feminist Companion to the Bible since 1993. Not only is this the companion to the Companion, but, it is at the same time the forerunner and companion to a second series of nine volumes of the Feminist Companion. In all, there will be a unique collection of 20 volumes representing the enormous range of influence that feminist criticism has come to have in biblical studies. Anchored always in particular biblical texts, the essays in this multi-authored Companion to Reading the Bible have a distinct methodological slant, reflecting the numerous developments in feminist criticism that have occurred since the first books in the series were published, and forming an indispensable handbook for every biblical scholar and student today.

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0567417220

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A Feminist Companion to Exodus to Deuteronomy

By: Athalya Brenner-Idan

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A Feminist Companion to Exodus to Deuteronomy

By: Athalya Brenner-Idan

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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Sheffield Academic Press

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1850754632

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Colour Terms in the Old Testament

By: Athalya Brenner

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Colour Terms in the Old Testament

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Emil J. Gumbel

Weimar German Pacifist and Professor

By: Athalya Brenner

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Weimar German Pacifist and Professor

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The Israelite Woman

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I Am . . .

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Are We Amused?

Are We Amused?

Exodus and Deuteronomy

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Emil J. Gumbel

Emil J. Gumbel

Colour Terms in the Old Testament

Colour Terms in the Old Testament

I Am . . .

I Am . . .

Feminist Companion to the Latter Prophets

Feminist Companion to the Latter Prophets

Are We Amused?

Are We Amused?

On Gendering Texts

On Gendering Texts

Feminist Companion to Reading the Bible

Feminist Companion to Reading the Bible

A Feminist Companion to Exodus to Deuteronomy

A Feminist Companion to Exodus to Deuteronomy

Colour Terms in the Old Testament

Colour Terms in the Old Testament

Emil J. Gumbel

Emil J. Gumbel

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