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Book A Feminist Companion to Wisdom and Psalms

Download or read book A Feminist Companion to Wisdom and Psalms written by Athalya Brenner-Idan and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1998-11-01 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the Wisdom volume in the first Feminist Companion series investigated multiple aspects of characterizations of women found in Wisdom literature, the 13 essays in this volume move beyond the study of the characterization of females that formed one of the first steps of modern feminist criticism-the recovery of what had been ignored or trivialized by androcentric readings dominant through the centuries. This second volume takes up questions of voice, exclusion and construction as well as the reinforcement of world views that, while perhaps necessary to the survival of the postexilic community as a whole, nevertheless left a legacy of continued gender asymmetry in Judaism and Christianity.

Book A Feminist Companion to Reading the Bible

Download or read book A Feminist Companion to Reading the Bible written by Athalya Brenner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-08-16 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This valuable resource both presents and demonstrates the numerous developments in feminist criticsm of the Bible and the enormous rage of influence that feminist criticism has come to have in biblical studies. The purpose of the book is to raise issues of method that are largely glossed over or merely implied in most non-feminist works on the Bible. The editors have included broadly theoretical essays on feminist methods and the various roles they may play in research and pedagogy, as well as non-feminist essays that have direct bearing on the methods or subject matter that feminists use, as well as reading that illustrate the variety of methodological strategies adopted by feminist scholars. Some 30 scholars, from North America and Europe, have contributed to this Companion.

Book Feminist Companion to Wisdom Literature

Download or read book Feminist Companion to Wisdom Literature written by Athalya Brenner and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1995-11-01 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: >

Book Companion to the Bible

Download or read book Companion to the Bible written by Elijah Porter Barrows and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Feminist Companion to Matthew

Download or read book Feminist Companion to Matthew written by Amy-Jill Levine and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2001-12-19 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conjoining diverse methodological and ideological approaches with a focus on specific texts, this volume ..... presents ground-breaking insights on the Gospel of Matthew...... (from back cover)

Book A Feminist Companion to Tobit and Judith

Download or read book A Feminist Companion to Tobit and Judith written by Athalya Brenner-Idan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-10-22 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Feminist Companion to Tobit and Judith extends the work of the hugely influential and respected Feminist Companion series, which continues to set the standard for feminist approaches to the Hebrew Bible and related texts. In the present volume Athalya Brenner-Idan (with Helen Efthimiadis-Keith) draws together a range of scholarly commentators and addresses the core issues relating to feminist interpretations of the two texts at hand. The volume examines attitudes to gender, identities, exile, social mores, beliefs, clothing, food and drink, personal relationships, and biblical reception. The contributors are: Beverly Bow and George Nickelsburg, Athalya Brenner-Idan, Ora Brison, Helen Efthimiadis-Keith, Renate Egger-Wenzel, Beate Ego, Emma England, Jennifer Glancy, Jan Willem van Henten, Naomi Jacobs, Amy-Jill Levine, Pamela Milne, and Barbara Schmitz.

Book The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Wisdom Literature

Download or read book The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Wisdom Literature written by Samuel L. Adams and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2020-02-17 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive introduction to ancient wisdom literature, with fascinating essays on a broad range of topics. The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Wisdom Literature is a wide-ranging introduction to the texts, themes, and receptions of the wisdom literature of the Bible and the ancient world. This comprehensive volume brings together original essays from established scholars and emerging voices to offer a variety of perspectives on the “wisdom” biblical books, early Christian and rabbinic literature, and beyond. Varied and engaging essays provide fresh insights on topics of timeless relevance, exploring the distinct features of instructional texts and discussing their interpretation in both antiquity and the modern world. Designed for non-specialists, this accessible volume provides readers with balanced coverage of traditional biblical wisdom texts, including Proverbs, Job, Psalms, and Ecclesiastes; lesser-known Egyptian and Mesopotamian wisdom; and African proverbs. The contributors explore topics ranging from scribes and pedagogy in ancient Israel, to representations of biblical wisdom literature in contemporary cinema. Offering readers a fresh and interesting way to engage with wisdom literature, this book: Discusses sapiential books and traditions in various historical and cultural contexts Offers up-to-date discussion on the study of the biblical wisdom books Features essays on the history of interpretation and theological reception Includes essays covering the antecedents and afterlife of the texts Part of the acclaimed Wiley Blackwell Companions to Religion series, the Companion to Wisdom Literature is a valuable resource for university, seminary and divinity school students and instructors, scholars and researchers, and general readers with interest in the subject.

Book Old Testament Wisdom

    Book Details:
  • Author : James L. Crenshaw
  • Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
  • Release : 1998-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780664254629
  • Pages : 278 pages

Download or read book Old Testament Wisdom written by James L. Crenshaw and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Old Testament Wisdom appeared in 1981, new perspectives on biblical theology, an increasing awareness of ancient Near Eastern texts resembling biblical wisdom, and an emerging interest in ethnic proverbs were mere intimations of what was to become a dramatic outpouring of scholarship on wisdom literature. In this expanded edition, James Crenshaw takes stock of the wealth of new material produced by contemporary interpreters. Liberation and feminists critics, scholars in comparative religion, specialists in devotional theology, and researchers exploring educational systems in the ancient Near East all have enriched our understanding of wisdom literature in recent years, and all receive insightful treatment in this new volume. Now as before, Crenshaw's Old Testament Wisdom is an invaluable asset for anyone wishing to understand the rich and complex legacy of wisdom literature.

Book Women s Bible Commentary

    Book Details:
  • Author : Carol Ann Newsom
  • Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
  • Release : 1998-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780664257811
  • Pages : 532 pages

Download or read book Women s Bible Commentary written by Carol Ann Newsom and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the critically acclaimed best-seller,Women's Bible Commentary, an outstanding group of women scholars introduced and summarized each book of the Bible and commented on those sections of each book that have particular relevence to women, focusing on female charecters, symbols, life situations such as marriage and family, the legal status of women, and religious principles that affect relationships of women and men. Now, this expanded edition provides similar insights on the Apocrypha, presenting a significant view of the lives and religious experiences of women as well as attitudes toward women in the Second Temple period. This expanded edition sets a new standard for women's and biblical studies.

Book The Cambridge Companion to Biblical Interpretation

Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Biblical Interpretation written by John Barton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-07-28 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guide to the state of biblical studies features 20 chapters written by scholars from North America and Britain, and represents both traditional and contemporary points of view.

Book Feminist Companion to Exodus to Deuteronomy

Download or read book Feminist Companion to Exodus to Deuteronomy written by Athalya Brenner-Idan and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1994-05-01 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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).

Book On Gendering Texts

    Book Details:
  • Author : ʻAtalyā Brenner
  • Publisher : BRILL
  • Release : 1996
  • ISBN : 9789004106444
  • Pages : 230 pages

Download or read book On Gendering Texts written by ʻAtalyā Brenner and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1996 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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]

Book A Feminist Companion to Ruth and Esther

Download or read book A Feminist Companion to Ruth and Esther written by Athalya Brenner-Idan and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1999-04-01 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second series of Feminist Companions moves beyond the confines of sex- and gender-specific issues and studies of biblical women. Biblical feminist critics now address contemporary life situations, marginalization and a range of questions once not thought accessible to such critique. Feminist theory has also continued a rapid evolution. Among the topics included in this volume are composition, Torah, Ruth-the-Cat, female networking-together with much else to inform and stimulate female (and male) biblical scholars and non-scholars.

Book The Cambridge Companion to the Bible

Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to the Bible written by Howard Clark Kee and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-11-19 with total page 734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cambridge Companion to the Bible, Second Edition focuses on the ever-changing social and cultural contexts in which the biblical authors and their original readers lived. The authors of the first edition were chosen for their internationally recognized expertise in their respective fields: the history and literature of Israel; postbiblical Judaism; biblical archaeology; and the origins and early literature of Christianity. In this second edition, all of their chapters have been updated and thoroughly revised, with a view towards better investigating the social histories embedded in the biblical texts and incorporating the most recent archaeological discoveries from the Ancient Near East and Hellenistic worlds.

Book Ezra  Nehemiah  and Esther

    Book Details:
  • Author : Johanna W. H. Van Wijk-Bos
  • Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
  • Release : 1998-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780664255978
  • Pages : 164 pages

Download or read book Ezra Nehemiah and Esther written by Johanna W. H. Van Wijk-Bos and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to this well-known author, today's readers find much that is familiar in Ezra, Nehemiah, and Esther, including the message of God's faithfulness in the face of prejudice, sexism, and patriarchy. Books in the Westminster Bible Companion series assist laity in their study of the Bible as a guide to Christian faith and practice. Each volume explains the biblical book in its original historical context and explores its significance for faithful living today. These books are ideal for individual study and for Bible study classes and groups.

Book A Feminist Companion to Judges

Download or read book A Feminist Companion to Judges written by Athalya Brenner-Idan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 1999-11-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Judges is a book with much to say about women, especially about their fate in a masculine world, subject to male values. This sparkling new collection of studies subjects Achsah, Delilah and Jephthah's daughter to the female critical gaze, while an increased emphasis on the body (whether gendered or not), violence of various forms, and intertextuality reflect the growing importance of these issues in biblical exegesis. The contributors to this second Judges Companion are Lillian Klein, Claudia Rakel, Shulamit Valler, Phyllis Silverman Kramer, Carol Smith, Renate Jost, Ilse Müllner and Alice Bach.