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Feminist Companion to Genesis by Athalya Brenner-Idan (University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands)

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. In this volume, Brenner-Idan collects some of the foremost feminist scholars in biblical studies, including Susanne Scholz, Carol Delaney and Lyn M. Bechtel, to offer their words on the role of woman in the first book of the Old Testament, how she is portrayed, and the implication of attitudes towards her.

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

Acknowledgments/ Abbreviations/ Athalya Brenner Introduction/ Part I/ 'At the Start': Emblems of Gender Relations and Human Existence/ Luise Schottroff/ The Creation Narrative: Genesis 1.1-2.4a/ Mary Phil Korsak/ Genesis: A New Look/ Helen Schungel-Straumann/ On the Creation of Man and Woman in Genesis 1-3: The History and Reception of the Texts Reconsidered/ Lyn M. Bechtel/ Rethinking the Interpretation of Genesis 2.4b-3.24/ Carol L. Meyers/ Gender Roles and Genesis 3.16 Revisited/ Adrien Janis Bledstein/ Are Women Cursed in Genesis 3.16?/ Pamela J. Milne/ The Patriarchal Stamp of Scripture: The Implications of Structural Analyses for Feminist Hermeneutics/ Ilana Pardes/ Beyond Genesis 3: The Politics of Maternal Naming/ Philip R. Davies/ Women, Men, Gods, Sex and Power: The Birth of a Biblical Myth/ Part II/ 'Emblems of Motherhood'/ Athalya Brenner/ Female Social Behaviour: Two Descriptive Patterns within the 'Birth of the Hero' Paradigm/ Fokkelien van Dijk-Hemmes/ Sarai's Exile: A Gender-Motivated Reading of Genesis 12.10-13.2/ Savina J. Teubal/ Sarah and Hagar: Matriarchs and Visionaries/ Arie Troost/ Reading for the Author's Signature: Genesis 21.1-21 and Luke 15.11-32 as Intertexts/ Esther Fuchs/ Structure, Ideology and Politics in the Biblical Betrothal Type-Scene/ Adrien Janis Bledstein/ Binder, Trickster, Heel and Hairy-Man: Re-reading Genesis 27 as a Trickster Tale Told by a Woman/ Elizabeth Cady Stanton/ Comments on Genesis: Genesis 29/ Clara Bewick Colby/ Mrs Stanton's Statements.../ Pieter W. van der Horst/ Tamar in Pseudo-Philo's 'Biblical History'/ Part III Emblems of Sexual Illicitness/ Naomi Graetz/ Dinah the Daughter/ Alice Bach/ Breaking Free of the Biblical Frame-Up: Uncovering the Woman in Genesis 39/ Mieke Bal/ Myth a la lettere: Freud, Man, Genesis and Rembrandt, and the Story of the Son/ Bibliography

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Feminist Companion to Genesis by Athalya Brenner-Idan (University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands)
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