Women in the Hebrew Bible: A Reader

, by Bach,Alice

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ISBN: 9780415915618 | 0415915619
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Copyright: 11/3/1998

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Summary

Women in the Hebrew Biblepresents the first one-volume overview covering the interpretation of women's place in man's world within the Hebrew Bible or Old Testament. Written by the major scholars in the field of biblical studies and literary theory, these essays examine attitudes toward women and their status in ancient Near Eastern societies, focusing on the Israelite society portrayed by the Hebrew Bible.

Editor's Note

Introduction Man's World, Women's Place: Sexual Politics in the Hebrew Bible

xiii

Alice Bach

The Social World of Women in Ancient Israel

The Place of Women in the Israelite Cultus

(18)

Phyllis Bird

``And the Women Knead Dough'': The Worship of the Queen of Heaven in Sixth-Century Judah

(12)

Susan Ackerman

Women and the Domestic Economy of Early Israel

(12)

Carol Meyers

Structure and Patriarchal Functions in the Biblical Betrothal Type-Scene: Some Preliminary Notes

(8)

Esther Fuchs

The Problem of the Body for the People of the Book

(24)

Howard Eilberg-Schwartz

Reading Women into Biblical Narratives

Status and Role of Female Heroines in the Biblical Narrative

(8)

Esther Fuchs

Woman and the Discourse of Patriarchal Wisdom: A Study of Proverbs 1-9

(14)

Carol A. Newsom

The Harlot as Heroine: Narrative Art and Social Presupposition in Three Old Testament Texts

(20)

Phyllis Bird

His Story Versus Her Story: Male Genealogy and Female Strategy in the Jacob Cycle

119

(8)

Nelly Furman

The Literary Characterization of Mothers and Sexual Politics in the Hebrew Bible

127

(14)

Esther Fuchs

Who's Afraid of ``The Endangered Ancestress''?

141

(18)

J. Cheryl Exum

Goddesses and Women of Magic

A Heifer from Thy Stable: One Goddesses and the Status of Women in the Ancient Near East

159

(20)

Carole R. Fontaine

The Queen Mother and the Cult in Ancient Israel

179

(16)

Susan Ackerman

The Wise Women of 2 Samuel: A Role Model for Women in Early Israel?

195

(16)

Claudia V. Camp

Rereading Women in the Bible

Reading Strategies and the Story of Ruth

211

(22)

Edward L. Greenstein

``A Son is Born to Naomi!'': Literary Allusions and Interpretation in the Book of Ruth

233

(8)

Danna Nolan Fewell

David M. Gunn

The Seduction of Eve and the Exegetical Politics of Gender

241

(30)

Reuven Kimelman

Genesis 22: The Sacrifice of Sarah

271

(22)

Phyllis Trible

Sexual Politics in the Hebrew Bible

Law and Philosophy: The Case of Sex in the Bible

293

(12)

Tikva Frymer-Kensky

Eroticism and Death in the Tale of Jael

305

(12)

Susan Niditch

Dealing/With/Women: Daughters in the Book of Judges

317

(18)

Mieke Bal

Adultery in the House of David: The Metanarrative of Biblical Scholarship and the Narratives of the Bible

335

(16)

Regina M. Schwartz

Signs of the Flesh: Observations on Characterization in the Bible

351

(16)

Alice Bach

Sacrifice and Salvation: Otherness and Domestication in the Book of Judith

367

(10)

Amy-Jill Levine

Judith, Holding the Tale of Herodotus

377

(12)

Mark Stephen Caponigro

Feminist Identities in Biblical Interpretation

Rereading the Body Politic: Women and Violence in Judges 21

389

(14)

Alice Bach

Transforming the Nature of Community: Toward a Feminist People of Israel

403

(16)

Judith Plaskow

With a Song in Her Heart: Listening to Scholars Listening for Miriam

419

(10)

Alice Bach

Roundtable Discussion: Women with Disabilities---A Challenge to Feminist Theology

429

(34)

Elly Elshout

A Case History: Numbers 5:11--31

Introduction to A Case History

461

(2)

The Strange Case of the Suspected Sotah (Numbers V 11--31)

463

(12)

Tikva Frymer-Kensky

The Case of the Suspected Adulteress, Numbers 5:11--31: Redaction and Meaning

475

(8)

Jacob Milgrom

Numbers 5 and the ``Waters of Judgment''

483

(4)

Jack Sasson

Accusations of Adultery: A Study of Law and Scribal Practice in Numbers 5:11--31

487

(16)

Michael Fishbane

Good to the Last Drop: Viewing the Sotah (Numbers 5.11--31) as the Glass Half Empty and Wondering How to View It Half Full

503

(34)

Alice Bach

Bibliographies

Feminist Bibliography: Bible

523

(10)

Feminist, Womanist, and Mujerista Theologies

533

(4)

Permissions Acknowledgments

537

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