Feminist Companion to Wisdom and Psalms

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.

• Abbreviations/ List of Contributors/ Preface/ Introduction/ Part I/ In General/ Roland E. Murphy/ Wisdom and Creation/ Part II/ Wisdom Literature/ Gerlinde Baumann/ A Figure with Many Facets: The Literary and Theological Functions of Personified Wisdom in Proverbs 1-9/ Alice Ogden Bellis/ The Gender and Motives of the Wisdom Teacher in Proverbs 7/ Christl Maier/ Conflicting Attractions/ Parental Wisdom and the ‘Strange Woman' in Proverbs 1-9/ Eric S. Christianson/ Qoheleth the ‘Old Boy' and Qoheleth the ‘New Man': Misogyny, the Womb and a Paradox in Ecclesiastes/ Carole R. Fontaine/ ‘Many Devices' (Qoheleth 7.23-8.1): Qoheleth, Misogyny, and the Malleus Maleficarum/ Brian B. Noonan/ Wisdom Literature among the Witchmongers/ Christl Maier and Silvia Schroer/ What About Job? Questioning the Book of ‘The Righteous Sufferer'/ Sidnie White Crawford/ Lady Wisdom and Dame Folly at Qumran/ Ross S. Kraemer/ Aseneth as Wisdom/ Part III/ Feminists Read the Psalms/ Ulrike Bail/ ‘O God, hear my prayer': Psalm 55 and Violence against Women/ Silvia Schroer/ ‘Under the Shadow of your Wings': The Metaphor of God's Wings in the Psalms. Exodus 19.4. Deuteronomy 32.11 and Malachi 3.20, as Seen through the Perspectives of Feminism and the History of Religion/ Beth LaNeel Tanner/ Hearing the Cries Unspoken: An Intertextual Feminist Reading of Psalm 109/ Bibliography/ Index of References/ Index of Authors