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A feminist companion to Esther, Judith and Susanna / edited by Athalya Brenner.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Feminist companion to the Bible ; 7.
- The feminist companion to the Bible ; 7
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women in the Bible.
- Bible. Old Testament--Feminist criticism.
- Bible.
- Esther, Queen of Persia.
- Esther.
- Judith (Biblical figure).
- Judith.
- Susanna (Biblical figure).
- Susanna.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (337 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Sheffield, England : Sheffield Academic Press, [1995]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Do we confront in these three characters feminist heroines or patriarchally idealised stooges? From the worldly Esther to the piously devout Susanna via the militant widow, these female figures appear both as meticulously sculpted individuals and as metaphors for a Jewish Community under threat. The wealth of antiguity in these characters is exposed to a wide range of perceptions in this marvellous collection.
- Contents:
- Contents; Abbreviations; Introduction; Part I: ESTHER: WHEN GENDER POLITICS REPRESENT POWER POLITICS; Esther: Folklore, Wisdom, Feminism and Authority; An Oriental Beauty Parlour: An Analysis of Esther 2.8-18 in the Hebrew, the Septuagint and the Second Greek Text; Looking at Esther through the Looking Glass; Mirror, Mirror in the Text: Reflections on Reading and Rereading; Tracing Esther's Beginnings; Esther: The Incomplete Emancipation of a Queen; Esther and the Queen's Throne; Honor and Shame in Esther; Esther Revisited: An Aggadic Approach; Esther's Story
- Part II: JUDITH: ON POWER, LEADERSHIP AND KNOWLEDGESacrifice and Salvation: Otherness and Domestication in the Book of Judith; Judith as Alternative Leader: A Rereading of Judith 7-13; Head Hunting: 'Judith' on the Cutting Edge of Knowledge; Part III: SUSANNA: THE READER'S POWER/KNOWLEDGE- ON VIEWING A JEWISH WOMAN/COMMUNITY; The Accused: Susanna and her Readers; 'Hemmed in on Every Side': Jews and Women in the Book of Susanna; Bibliography
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed May 19, 2014).
- ISBN:
- 9786613200051
- 9781283200059
- 1283200058
- 9780567491459
- 0567491455
- OCLC:
- 745866083
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