Feminist Companion to Samuel-Kings (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Brenner-Idan, Athalya

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

A stimulating collection of studies by leading feminist scholars offering radical readings of the Old Testament books of Samuel and Kings. Although gender ideology may have been only a 'side issue' for the writers of these texts, the articles in this collection show that it is definitely a constituent of the general ideological framework of this section of Israel's historiography, and they explore the texts for women's lives, female voices, gendered types, and the presence of women in the written history. As Athalya Brenner states in her introduction to the volume, in looking at the presentation of women and femaleness in Samuel and Kings we 'encounter chiefly relational images': women are seen as daughters, mothers, queen mothers, and in their relations to kings and prophets.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 286
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 1994
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780567231550
• Artikelnr.: 40780751

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

Abbreviations
Athalya Brenner
Introduction
Part I
Women as Vehicles for Historiography: Liminality and Anonymity
Karla G. Shargent
Living on the Edge: The Liminality of Daughters in Genesis to 2 Samuel
Adele Reinhartz
Anonymous Women and the Collapse of the Monarchy: A Study in Narrative Technique
A Model Mother: Hannah
Yairah Amit
'Am I Not More Devoted To You Than Ten Sons?' (1 Samuel 1.8): Male and Female Interpretations
Lillian R. Klein
Hannah: Marginalized Victim and Social Redeemer
Carol Meyers
Hannah and her Sacrifice: Reclaiming Female Agency
Part III
Women and Monarchs
Alice Bach
The Pleasure of her Text
Schulamit Valler
King David and 'his' Women: Biblical Stories and Talmudic Discussions
Carole R. Fontaine
The Bearing of Wisdom on the Shape of 2 Samuel 11-12 and 1 Kings 3
Carole R. Fontaine
A Response to 'The bearing of Wisdom'
Part IV
Queen Mothers
Zafrira Ben- Barak
The Status and Right of the gebîrâ
Ktizah Spanier
The Queen Mother in the Judaen Royal Court: Maacah A Case Study
Tina Pippin
Jezebel Re-vamped
Part V
Female, Femaleness
Prophets, Prophecy
Jan Tarlin
Toward a 'Female' Reading of the Elijah Cycle: Ideology and Gender in the Interpretation of 1 Kings 17-19, 21 and 2 Kings 1-2.18
Fokkelien Dijk-Hemmes
The Great Women of Shunem and the Man of God: A Duel Interpretation of 2 Kings 4.8-37
Diana Edelmann
Huldah the Prophet- of Yahweh or Asherah?
Epilogue
Women in Later Historiography and History
Tamara C. Eskenazi
Out for the Shadows: Biblical Women in the Post-Exilic Era
Bibliography