Biblical women unbound : counter-tales / Norma Rosen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rosen, Norma.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women in the Bible.

Women in rabbinical literature.

Midrash--History and criticism.

Midrash.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (239 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Counter-tales

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Jewish Publication Society, 2001, c1996.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Rosen gives a new voice to more than a dozen women of the Bible. She imagines and writes the missing chapters of these women's lives in a witty and engaging collection of stories. In addition, she introduces the book with a lively essay about classical Midrash, its relationship to fiction and the imagination, and the possibilities for new midrashim written for and about women.

Contents:

Intro

Half-Title

Also by Norma Rosen

Title

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

A Personal Note

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Midrash and the Bible

What I Want Midrash to Do

Narrative Method in Classical Midrash

Narrative Method and the Uses of Story

Mldrash and Fiction

Midrash and Theology

Mothers and Sisters

Eve

All about Eve: The Eternal Female through the Ages

Sarah

The Unbinding of Sarah

Rebekah

Rebekah and Isaac: A Marriage Made in Heaven

Rachel and Leah

Rachel and Leah: A Thousand and One Nights of Love

Sisters and Daughters

Miriam

The Seven Days of Miriam

Tamar

Tamar: The Widow's Wager

Lot's Daughter

Daughter-Wives of Lot: All Glorious Is the King's Daughter Within (but that shouldn't stop you from thrusting her out-of-doors when necessary): A Children's Play

Daughters, Wives, Warriors

Deborah

Deborah: A Prophet of Air

Bitiah

Bitiah: Memoir of a 'lYrant's Daughter (as interviewed in the Jewish Press)

Esther

After Esther

Contemporary Women Look at Biblical Women

Ruth and Naomi

Dialogues on Devotion.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

ISBN:

0-8276-0988-4

OCLC:

676697846