| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 277 pages : illustrations) |
| Contents |
When irony bites back : a deconstructive reading of the midwives' excuse in Exodus 1:19 / Kirsi Cobb -- Too good to be true? : the female pronoun for God in Numbers 11:15 / Nicholas Ansell -- Campy murder in Judges 4 : is Yael a gebèbèret (heroine)? / Anne Létourneau -- Absence of wife battering in Old Testament narratives : a literary omission or a cultural aberration? / Funlola Olojede -- Action and counter-action : Michal, Abigail, Bathsheba / Kirsten H. Gardner -- Women in the Book of Nehemia / Brigitte Rabarijaona -- On "being a just man" ([dikaios ōn], Matt 1:19) : Joseph of Nazareth, gender, and empire in Matthew's infancy narrative / Justin Glessner -- Ecology, economics and gender in Matt 6:25-34 / Ma. Marilou S. Ibita -- Corinthian women in Pauline Rome : feminism and political liberation / Fatima Tofighi -- Has scientific biblical research categoricall acknowledged feminist themes and methods? : a review of feminist traditional exegesis done on the Letter of Jude / Lilly Nortjé-Meyer -- Violating the inviolable body : Thecla radically altered / Rosie Ratcliffe -- The Bible and women : an international networking project for reception history in exegesis and cultural history / Irmtraud Fischer |
| Summary |
In the last two decades, feminism has often been declared dead. One reason for this was the overwhelming success of gender and queer studies; another was supposedly nurtured by the hope of conservatives that girls and women should return to that which is traditionally perceived as "female". This volume, which brings together the most interesting papers of the feminist exegesis section of the recent International Meetings of the Society of Biblical Literature, offers vivid proof that feminist studies did not lose their appeal to young scholars, and that there is still enough potential for fresh |
| Notes |
"Amsterdam 2012 -- St. Andrews 2013 -- Vienna 2014." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| SUBJECT |
Bible -- Feminist criticism.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh93004310
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Bible fast |
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Women in the Bible -- Congresses
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
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Feminist criticism
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Women in the Bible
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BIBLE.
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Fischer, Irmtraud, 1957- editor.
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Feichtinger, Daniela
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Society of Biblical Literature. International Meeting (2012 : Amsterdam)
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Society of Biblical Literature. International Meeting (2013 : University of St. Andrews)
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Society of Biblical Literature. International Meeting (2014 : Vienna, Austria)
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| ISBN |
9781443883153 |
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1443883158 |
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