Feminist Companion to Reading the Bible

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. Carole Fontaine is Professor of Hebrew Scriptures, Andover Newton Theological School, Newton Centre, Massachusetts.

• Preface/ Abbreviations/ Athalya Brenner/ Introduction/ Part I/ Metacritics/ Adele Reinhartz/ Feminist Criticism and Biblical Studies on the Verge of the Twenty-First Century/ Pamela J. Milne/ Toward Feminist Companionship: The Future of Feminine Biblical Studies and Feminism/ Heather A. McKay/ On the Future of Feminist Biblical Criticism/ Carole R. Fontaine/ The Abusive Bible: On the Use of Feminist Method in Pastoral Contexts/ Carol Smith/ Challenged by the Text: Interpreting Two Stories of Incest in the Hebrew Bible/ Athalya Brenner/ Identifying the Speaker-in-the-Text and the Reader's Location in Prophetic Texts: The Case of Isaiah 50/ Carole R. Fontaine/ Response to Brenner's ‘Speaker-in-the-Text'/ Part II/ Difference and Otherness/ Sharon H. Ringe/ Approach to a Critical , Feminist, Theological Reading of the Bible/ Alicia Suskin Ostriker/ A Triple Hermeneutic: Scripture and Revisionist Women's Poetry/ Katharina Von Kellenbach/ Overcoming the Teaching of Contempt/ Kwok Pui-Lan/ Overlapping Communities and Multicultural Hermeneutics/ Part III/ Other Worlds/ Julie M. Asher-Greve/ Feminist Research and Ancient Mesoptomia: Problems and Prospects/ Lana Troy/ Engendering Creation in Ancient Egypt: Still and Flowing Waters/ Part IV/ Other Close Contexts/ Recovering Objects Re-Visioning Subjects: Archaeology and Feminist Biblical Study/ Eleanor Ferris Beach/ An Iconographic Approach to Genesis 38/ John J. Pilch/ Family Violence in Cross-Cultural Perspective: An Approach for Feminist Interpreters of the Bible/ Part V/ Otherness and Translation/ Kristin De Troyer/ Septuagint and Gender Studies: The Very Beginning of a Promising Liason/ Tod Linafelt/ Surviving Lamentations/ Part VI/ Goddesses and Wisdom/ Judith M. Hadley/ From Goddess to Literary Construct: The Transformation of Asherah into Hokmah/ Bernhard Lang/ Lady Wisdom: A Polytheistic and Psychological Interpretation of a Biblical Goddess/ Part VII/ Intertextuality/ Ellen Van Wolde/ Intertextuality: Ruth in Dialogue with Tamar/ Elaine Wainwright/ Rachel Weeping for her Children: Intertextuality and the Biblical Testaments- A Feminist Approach/  Part VIII/ Forays into Rabbinics/ Judith Hauptman/ Rabbinic Interpretation of Scripture/ Miriam Peskowitz/ Rabbis Feminists and Patriarchy's Ordinariness/ Daniel Boyarin/ Torah Study and the Making of Jewish Gender/ Part IX/ The Personal/ Autobiographical/ David Gunn/ Reflections on David/ Athalya Brenner/ ‘My' Song of Songs/ Part X/ Back to the Traditional/ Carole R. Fontaine/ Editor's Preface to Claus Westermann's ‘Beauty in the Hebrew Bible'/ Claus Westermann/ Beauty in the Hebrew Bible/ Bibliography