Athalya Brenner, a leading feminist critic of the Hebrew Bible, has gathered a unique anthology of feminist writing, offering a rich resource for reclaiming the female heritage in these classic texts.
Athalya Brenner-Idan is Professor Emerita of the HB\OT Chair at the Universiteit van Amsterdam, The Netherlands; and currently Professor in Biblical Studies at the Department of Hebrew Culture Studies, Tel Aviv University, Israel, and Research Associate at the Biblia Arabica Project there. In addition, she is Extraordinary Professor at the Department of OT/NT, Faculty of Theology, Stellenbosch University, South Africa. Her website is http://athalya-morah-letorah.com.
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Abbreviations/ Athalya Brenner/ Preface/ Athalya Brenner/ Introduction/ Part I/The Case of 'Hosea'/ Carole R. Fontaine/ Hosea/Carole R. Fontaine/ A Response to 'Hosea'/Alice A. Keefe/ The Female Body, theBody Politic and the Land: A Sociopolitical Reading of Hosea 1-2/ Yvonne Sherwood/ Boxing Gomer:Controlling the Deviant Woman in Hosea 1-3/ NaomiGraetz/ God is to Israel as Husband is to Wife: The Metaphoric Battering ofHosea's Wife/ Francis Landy/ Fantasyand the Displacement of Pleasure: Hosea 2.4-17/ John Goldingay/ Hosea 1-3, Genesis 1-4 and MasculistInterpretation/ Mayer I. Gruber/ MaritalFidelity and Intimacy: A View from Hosea 4/ MaragaretS. Odell/ I Will Destroy Your Mother: The Obliteration of a Cultic Role inHosea 4.4-6/ Helen Schüngel-Straumann/ Godas Mother in Hosea 11/ Marie-ThieresWacker/ Traces of the Goddess in the Book of Hosea/ Part II/ On the Pornopropheticsof Sexual Violence/ Fokkelien vanDijk-Hemmes/ The Metaphorization of Woman in Prophetic Speech: An Analysisof Ezekiel 23/ Athalya Brenner/ OnProphetic Propaganda and the Politics of 'Love': The Case of Jeremiah/ Robert P. Carroll/ Desire under theTerebinths: On Pornographic Representation in the Prophets - A Response/ Pamela Gordon and Harold C. Washington/ Rapeas a Military Metaphor in the Hebrew Bible/ F.Rachel Magdalene/ Ancient Near Eastern Treaty-Curses and the Ultimate Textsof Terror: A Study of the Language of Divine Sexual Abuse in the PropheticCorpus/ Part III/ Should We Trust the God of the Prophets?/ Nancy R. Bowen/ Can God be Trusted?Confronting the Deceptiove God/ Bibliography
