Introduction / Catherine Pastore Blain, Harold Schweizer -- Out of my sight: the buried woman in biblical narrative -- A word made flesh: the Bible and women's poetry -- The Lilith poems -- Transactions/transgressions: an interview with Alicia Ostriker -- Alicia Suskin Ostriker: a bibliography, 1964-1992 / J.C. Bittenbender, C.H. Cronrath
Summary
Extends the feminist examination of western literature to the founding document of patriarchal culture, the Bible. At the same time, it re-thinks certain customary assumptions about feminism and about the Bible, in the light of poetic 'readings' of Biblical texts by 19th and 20th century women writers. It proposes that women writers relate to the Bible in complex ways which both critique biblical misogyny and stem directly from elements of transgressive writing within the Biblical text, suggesting that feminist reinterpretations of the Bible constitute an inevitable consequence of radical spiritual values at the core of scripture itself
Analysis
Christianity Scriptures Special subjects Women
Judaism Scriptures Special subjects Women
Christianity Scriptures Special subjects Women
Judaism Scriptures Special subjects Women
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages [130]-145) and index
