Unlocking the garden : a feminist Jewish look at the Bible, midrash and God / Naomi Graetz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Graetz, Naomi, 1943-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible. Old Testament--Feminist criticism.

Bible.

Bible. Old Testament.

Feminism--Religious aspects--Judaism.

Feminism.

Women in the Bible.

Feminist criticism.

Physical Description:

xv, 191 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First Gorgias Press edition.

Place of Publication:

Piscataway, N.J. : Gorgias Press, 2005.

Summary:

A stirring collection of fifteen articles, many of which have been previously published by the author who is a feminist Jew. The author unabashedly confronts difficult biblical and midrashic texts, without taking an apologetic stance.

Contents:

A feminist Jewish interpretation of the Bible

Dinah the daughter

Did Miriam talk too much?

Metaphors count

Is kinyan only a metaphor?

God is to Israel as husband is to wife: the metaphoric battering of Hosea's wife

Will the real Hagar please stand up?

A midrashic lens on biblical women

Jerusalem the widow

The barrenness of Miriam: a midrash on the Haftara of Ki tetzeh (Isaiah 54)

Midrash on Ki tetzeh

Feminist Jewish reconstruction of prayer

Modern midrash unbound: who's not afraid of goddess worship?

Akeda revisited

Vashti unrobed

A Passover triptych.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-190).

ISBN:

1593330588

OCLC:

56672319