Feminist Companion to Ruth (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Brenner-Idan, Athalya

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This volume is part of a series which provides a fundamental resource for feminist biblical scholarship, containing a comprehensive selection of essays, both reprinted and specially written for the series, by leading feminist scholars. 'An enterprising series of collections of important and pioneering studies.... Those teaching feminist courses will find the books invaluable as a resource for students.' C.S. Rodd, Expository Times.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 292
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 1993
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780567348265
• Artikelnr.: 40780239

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

 Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Athalya Brenner
Introduction
Part I
Gendered Reading Perspectives
Elizabeth Caddy Stanton
The Book of Ruth
Ilona Rashkow
Ruth: The Discourse of Power and the Power of Discourse
Mieke Bal
Heroism and Proper Names, Or the Fruits of Analogy
Athalya Brenner
Naomi and Ruth
Carol Meyers
Returning Home: Ruth 1.8 and the Gendering of the Book of Ruth
Part II
Gendered Authorship?
Adrien J. Bledstein
Female Companionship: If the Book of Ruth were Written by a Woman
Fokkelien Van Dijk-Hemmes
Ruth: A Product of Women's Culture?
Athalya Brenner
Naomi and Ruth: Further Reflections
Part III
On Some Ancient Comments
Leila Leah Bronner
A The Thematic Approach to Ruth in Rabbinic Literature
Jane Richardson Jenson
Ruth According to Ephrem the Syrian
Part IV
Comments in Art
Zefira Gitay
Ruth and the Women of Bethlehem
Cynthia Ozick
Ruth
Bibliography