Feminist Companion to Genesis

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.

• Acknowledgments/ Abbreviations/ Athalya Brenner Introduction/Part I/ 'At the Start': Emblems of Gender Relations and Human Existence/ Luise Schottroff/ The Creation Narrative: Genesis 1.1-2.4a/ Mary Phil Korsak/ Genesis: A New Look/ Helen Schüngel-Straumann/ On theCreation of Man and Woman in Genesis 1-3: The History and Reception of theTexts Reconsidered/ Lyn M. Bechtel/Rethinking the Interpretation of Genesis 2.4b-3.24/ Carol L. Meyers/ Gender Roles and Genesis 3.16 Revisited/ Adrien Janis Bledstein/ Are Women Cursedin Genesis 3.16?/ Pamela J. Milne/The Patriarchal Stamp of Scripture: The Implications of Structural Analyses forFeminist Hermeneutics/ Ilana Pardes/ BeyondGenesis 3: The Politics of Maternal Naming/ PhilipR. Davies/ Women, Men, Gods, Sex and Power: The Birth of a Biblical Myth/Part II/ 'Emblems of Motherhood'/ AthalyaBrenner/ Female Social Behaviour: Two Descriptive Patterns within the 'Birthof the Hero' Paradigm/ Fokkelien vanDijk-Hemmes/ Sarai's Exile: A Gender-Motivated Reading of Genesis12.10-13.2/ Savina J. Teubal/ Sarahand Hagar: Matriarchs and Visionaries/ ArieTroost/ Reading for the Author's Signature: Genesis 21.1-21 and Luke15.11-32 as Intertexts/ Esther Fuchs/ Structure,Ideology and Politics in the Biblical Betrothal Type-Scene/ Adrien Janis Bledstein/ Binder,Trickster, Heel and Hairy-Man: Re-reading Genesis 27 as a Trickster Tale Toldby a Woman/ Elizabeth Cady Stanton/Comments on Genesis: Genesis 29/ ClaraBewick Colby/ Mrs Stanton's Statements.../ Pieter W. van der Horst/ Tamar in Pseudo-Philo's 'Biblical History'/Part III Emblems of Sexual Illicitness/ NaomiGraetz/ Dinah the Daughter/ AliceBach/ Breaking Free of the Biblical Frame-Up: Uncovering the Woman inGenesis 39/ Mieke Bal/ Myth à lalettere: Freud, Man, Genesis and Rembrandt, and the Story of the Son/Bibliography