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

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.

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.

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

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9781850758389

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1850758387

Title

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

Author

Athalya Brenner-Idan (University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands)

Series

Feminist Companion to the Bible (Second ) series

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Used - Very Good

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Paperback

Publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Year published

1998-05-01

Number of pages

276

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

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

A Feminist Companion to Genesis Summary

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

About Athalya Brenner-Idan (University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands)

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