Feminist Companion to the Hebrew Bible in the New Testament

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.

• Abbreviations/ Athalya Brenner/ A Personal Note/ Athalya Brenner/ Introduction/ Part I/ Hebrew Bible Characters Recycled: Some Principles/ Heather McKay/ ‘Only a Remnant of Them Will Be Saved': Women from the Hebrew Bible in New Testament Narratives/ Heather McKay/ ‘Old Wine in New Wineskins': The Refashioning of Male Hebrew Bible Characters in New Testament Texts/ Mark Bredin/ Gentiles and the Davidic Tradition in Matthew/ Pieter W. Van Der Horst/ Sarah's Seminal Emisson: Hebrews 11.11 in the Light of Ancient Embryology/ Part II/ Women and the Feminine: New Testament Women Characters/ Bea Wyler/ Mary's Call/ Jane Schaberg/ The Foremothers and the Mother of Jesus/ Arie Troost/ Elizabeth and Mary-Naomi and Ruth: Gender Response Criticism in Luke 1-2/ Adele Reinhartz/ From Narrative to History: The Resurrection of Mary and Martha/ Judith Lieu/ Scripture and the Feminine in John/ Lyn M. Bechtel/ A Symbolic Level of Meaning: John 2.1-11 (The Marriage in Cana)/ Part III/ On the Gendering of the Female Body/ Beverly Stratton/ Eye Through Several Lenses Truth in 1 Timothy 2.8-15/ Marla J. Selvidge/ Reflections on Violence and Pornography: Misogyny in the Apocalypse and Ancient Hebrew Prophecy/ Carole R. Fontaine/ Disabilities and Illness in the Bible: A Feminist Perspective/ Part IV/ Anti-Judaism in the New Testament and its Feminist Interpretations?/ Amy-Jill Levine/ Second Temple Judaism, Jesus and Women: Yeast of Eden/ Luise Schottroff/ Through German and Feminist Eyes: A Liberationist Reading of Luke 7.36-50/ Leonora Siegele-Wenschkewitz/ In the Dangerous Currents of Old Prejudices: How Predominant Thoughts Have Disastrous Effects and What Could Be Done to Counter Them/ Edna Brocke/ Do the Origins Already Contain the Malady?/ Lillian R. Klein/ On ‘Anti-Judaism' in German Feminist Thought: Some Reflections By Way of a Response/ Bibliography