Genesis / edited by Athalya Brenner.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Brenner-Idan, Athalya, editor.

Series:

Feminist companion to the Bible ; 2.

Feminist Companion to the Bible ; 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible. Genesis--Feminist criticism.

Bible.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (277 p.)

Place of Publication:

Sheffield, England : Sheffield Academic Press, 1997.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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. It contains essays on the emblems of gender relations and human existence, motherhood and sexual illicitness in the Genesis tales. '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, Editor, Expository Times).

Contents:

CONTENTS; Abbreviations; List of Contributors; Introduction; ... et GENETRIX; Gender Construction in the Yahwist Creation Myth; The Doom of Paradise: Literary Patterns in Accounts of Paradise and Mortality in the Hebrew Bible and the Ancient Near East; Daddy-Dearest and the 'Invisible Spirit of Wine; A Feminist Reading of Genesis 19.1-11; Abraham and the Seeds of Patriarchy; Through Whose Eyes? A 'Right' Reading of Genesis 34; Genesis 21.12: A New Reading of an Ambiguous Text; Changing the Subject: Retelling the Story of Hagar the Egyptian

The Dismissal of Hagar in Five Art Works of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth CenturiesBiblical Women that Come in Pairs: The Use of Female Pairs as a Literary Device in the Hebrew Bible; The Voice of Rachel: Resistance and Polyphony in Genesis 31.14-35; Bibliography; Index of References; Index of Authors

Notes:

"Copyright © 1993, 1997 Sheffield Academic Press"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780567419941

0567419940

OCLC:

745979209