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Feminist Companion to Ruth 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. '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.

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

Acknowledgements/ Abbreviations/ Athalya Brenner/ Introduction/ Part I/ Gendered Reading Perspectives/ Elizabeth Caddy Stanton/ The Book of Ruth/ Ilona Rashkow/ Ruth: The Discourse of Power and the Power of Discourse/ Mieke Bal/ Heroism and Proper Names, Or the Fruits of Analogy/ Athalya Brenner/ Naomi and Ruth/ Carol Meyers/ Returning Home: Ruth 1.8 and the Gendering of the Book of Ruth/ Part II/ Gendered Authorship?/ Adrien J. Bledstein/ Female Companionship: If the Book of Ruth were Written by a Woman/ Fokkelien Van Dijk-Hemmes/ Ruth: A Product of Women's Culture?/ Athalya Brenner/ Naomi and Ruth: Further Reflections/ Part III/ On Some Ancient Comments/ Leila Leah Bronner/ A The Thematic Approach to Ruth in Rabbinic Literature/ Jane Richardson Jenson/ Ruth According to Ephrem the Syrian/ Part IV/ Comments in Art/ Zefira Gitay/ Ruth and the Women of Bethlehem/ Cynthia Ozick/ Ruth/ Bibliography

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NLS9781850754213
9781850754213
1850754217
Feminist Companion to Ruth by Athalya Brenner-Idan (University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands)
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
1993-06-01
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