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Feminist Companion to Esther, Judith and Susanna
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This volume in the prestigious Feminist Companions series edited by Athalya Brenner covers this fascinating figures of Esther, Judith, and Susanna.
Table of Contents
Abbreviations
Athalya Brenner
Introduction
Part I
Esther: When Gender Politics Represent Power Politics / Susan Niditch
Esther: Folklore, Wisdom, Feminism and Authority / Kristin de Troyer
An Oriental Beauty Parlour: An Analysis of Esther 2.8-18 in the Hebrew, the Septuagint and the Second Greek Text / Athalya Brenner
Looking at Esther through the Looking Glass / Alice Bach
Mirror, Mirror in the Text: Reflections on Reading and Re-reading / Timothy K. Beal
Tracing Esther's Beginnings / Bea Wyler
Esther: The Incomplete Emancipation of a Queen / Zefira Gitay
Esther and the Queen's Throne / Lillian R. Klein
Honor and Shame in Esther/ Leila Leah Bronner
Esther Revisited: An Aggadic Approach / Diane Wolksstien
Esther's Story
Part II
Judith: On Power, Leadership and Knowledge / Amy-Jill Levine
Sacrifice and Salvation: Otherness and Domestication in the Book of Judith / Ijan Willem van Henten
Judith as Alternative Leader: A Rereading of Judith 7-13 / Mieke Bal
Head Hunting: 'Judith' on the Cutting Edge of Knowledge
Part III
Susanna: The Reader's Power/Knowledge - on Viewing a Jewish Woman/Community / Jennifer
A. Glancy
The Accused: Susanna and her Readers / Amy-Jill Levine
'Hemmed in on Every Side': Jews and Women in the Book of Susanna
Bibliography
Athalya Brenner
Introduction
Part I
Esther: When Gender Politics Represent Power Politics / Susan Niditch
Esther: Folklore, Wisdom, Feminism and Authority / Kristin de Troyer
An Oriental Beauty Parlour: An Analysis of Esther 2.8-18 in the Hebrew, the Septuagint and the Second Greek Text / Athalya Brenner
Looking at Esther through the Looking Glass / Alice Bach
Mirror, Mirror in the Text: Reflections on Reading and Re-reading / Timothy K. Beal
Tracing Esther's Beginnings / Bea Wyler
Esther: The Incomplete Emancipation of a Queen / Zefira Gitay
Esther and the Queen's Throne / Lillian R. Klein
Honor and Shame in Esther/ Leila Leah Bronner
Esther Revisited: An Aggadic Approach / Diane Wolksstien
Esther's Story
Part II
Judith: On Power, Leadership and Knowledge / Amy-Jill Levine
Sacrifice and Salvation: Otherness and Domestication in the Book of Judith / Ijan Willem van Henten
Judith as Alternative Leader: A Rereading of Judith 7-13 / Mieke Bal
Head Hunting: 'Judith' on the Cutting Edge of Knowledge
Part III
Susanna: The Reader's Power/Knowledge - on Viewing a Jewish Woman/Community / Jennifer
A. Glancy
The Accused: Susanna and her Readers / Amy-Jill Levine
'Hemmed in on Every Side': Jews and Women in the Book of Susanna
Bibliography
Product details
Published | 01 Jan 1995 |
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Format | Ebook (PDF) |
Edition | 1st |
Extent | 336 |
ISBN | 9780567491459 |
Imprint | Sheffield Academic Press |
Series | Feminist Companion to the Bible |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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