This final volume in the Feminist Companion to the Bible Second series is a sparkling collection. These essays revisit the figure of the Goddess, redefine female prophet-(esse)s, consider Yahweh as a violent husband, explore various aspects or eroticism in prophetic literature and discuss how to say no to a prophet. In the section on Daniel the Obtuse Foreign Ruler is viewed from the perspective of both feminism and humor, while Belshazzar's mother is proposed as another wise queen. Contributors include Judith Hadley, Esther Fuchs, Renate Jost, Rainer Kessler, Gerlinde Baumann, Mary Shields,…mehr
This final volume in the Feminist Companion to the Bible Second series is a sparkling collection. These essays revisit the figure of the Goddess, redefine female prophet-(esse)s, consider Yahweh as a violent husband, explore various aspects or eroticism in prophetic literature and discuss how to say no to a prophet. In the section on Daniel the Obtuse Foreign Ruler is viewed from the perspective of both feminism and humor, while Belshazzar's mother is proposed as another wise queen. Contributors include Judith Hadley, Esther Fuchs, Renate Jost, Rainer Kessler, Gerlinde Baumann, Mary Shields, Erin Runions, Tamar Kamlonkowski, Ulrike Sals, Julia M. O'Brien, Mayer Gruber, H. von Deventer, and Emily Sampson.
Athalya Brenner is Professor of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies, University of Amsterdam, and Rosalyn and Manny Rosenthal Distinguished Professor-in-Residence of Hebrew Bible at Brite Divinity School, Fort Worth, Texas.
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Abbreviations List of Contributors Athalya Brenner Introduction Part I Prophecy A. The Goddesss Revisited Judith M. Hadley The Queen of Heaven - Who is She? B. Female 'Prophets' or 'Prophetesses'? Esther Fuchs Prophecy and the Construction of Women: Inscription and Erasure Renate Jost The Daughters of Your People Prophesy Rainer Kessler Miriam and the Prophecy of the Persian Period C. The Pornoprophetic (?) Marriage Metaphor Gerlinde Baumann Propehtic Objections to YHWH as the Violent Husband of Israel: Reinterpretations of the Prophetic Marriage Metaphor in Second Isaiah (Isaiah 40-55) Mary E. Shields Circumcision of the Prostitute: Gender, Sexuality and the Call to Repentance in Jeremiah 3.1-4.4 Mary E. Shields Self-Response to 'Circumcision of the Prostitute' Mary E. Shields Multiple Exposures: Body Rhetoric and Gender in Ezekiel 16 Mary E. Shields Self-Response to' Multiple Exposures' Erin Runions Violence and the Economy of Desire in Ezekiel 16.1-45 S. Tamar Kamionkowski Gender Reversal in Ezekiel 16 Ulrike Sals Reading Zechariah 5. 5-11: Prophecy, Gender and (Ap)Perception Julia M. O'Brien On Saying "No" to a Prophet Julia M. O'Brien In Retrospect...Self-Response to 'on Saying "No" to a Prophet Mayer I. Gruber Nineveh the Adulteress Part II Daniel Athalya Brenner Who's Afraid of Feminist Criticism? Who's Afraid of Biblical Humour? The Case of the Obtuse Foreign Ruler in the Hebrew Bible Athalya Brenner Self-Response to 'Who's Afraid of Feminist Criticism?' H.J.M Van Deventer Another Wise Queen (Mother) - Women's Wisdom in Daniel 5.10-12? Emily Sampson Daniel, Belshazzar and Julia: The Rediscovery and Vindication of the Translation of Julia E. Smith (1792-1886) Bibliography Index of References Index of Authors
Abbreviations List of Contributors Athalya Brenner Introduction Part I Prophecy A. The Goddesss Revisited Judith M. Hadley The Queen of Heaven - Who is She? B. Female 'Prophets' or 'Prophetesses'? Esther Fuchs Prophecy and the Construction of Women: Inscription and Erasure Renate Jost The Daughters of Your People Prophesy Rainer Kessler Miriam and the Prophecy of the Persian Period C. The Pornoprophetic (?) Marriage Metaphor Gerlinde Baumann Propehtic Objections to YHWH as the Violent Husband of Israel: Reinterpretations of the Prophetic Marriage Metaphor in Second Isaiah (Isaiah 40-55) Mary E. Shields Circumcision of the Prostitute: Gender, Sexuality and the Call to Repentance in Jeremiah 3.1-4.4 Mary E. Shields Self-Response to 'Circumcision of the Prostitute' Mary E. Shields Multiple Exposures: Body Rhetoric and Gender in Ezekiel 16 Mary E. Shields Self-Response to' Multiple Exposures' Erin Runions Violence and the Economy of Desire in Ezekiel 16.1-45 S. Tamar Kamionkowski Gender Reversal in Ezekiel 16 Ulrike Sals Reading Zechariah 5. 5-11: Prophecy, Gender and (Ap)Perception Julia M. O'Brien On Saying "No" to a Prophet Julia M. O'Brien In Retrospect...Self-Response to 'on Saying "No" to a Prophet Mayer I. Gruber Nineveh the Adulteress Part II Daniel Athalya Brenner Who's Afraid of Feminist Criticism? Who's Afraid of Biblical Humour? The Case of the Obtuse Foreign Ruler in the Hebrew Bible Athalya Brenner Self-Response to 'Who's Afraid of Feminist Criticism?' H.J.M Van Deventer Another Wise Queen (Mother) - Women's Wisdom in Daniel 5.10-12? Emily Sampson Daniel, Belshazzar and Julia: The Rediscovery and Vindication of the Translation of Julia E. Smith (1792-1886) Bibliography Index of References Index of Authors
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