1st Edition

A Feminist Companion to Reading the Bible Approaches, Methods and Strategies

Edited By Athalya Brenner, Carole Fontaine Copyright 2001
    654 Pages
    by Routledge

    This valuable resource both presents and demonstrates the numerous developments in feminist criticsm of the Bible and the enormous rage of influence that feminist criticism has come to have in biblical studies.

    The purpose of the book is to raise issues of method that are largely glossed over or merely implied in most non-feminist works on the Bible. The editors have included broadly theoretical essays on feminist methods and the various roles they may play in research and pedagogy, as well as non-feminist essays that have direct bearing on the methods or subject matter that feminists use, as well as reading that illustrate the variety of methodological strategies adopted by feminist scholars.

    Some 30 scholars, from North America and Europe, have contributed to this Companion.

    Metacritics * Differences and Otherness * Other Worlds * Other Close Contexts * Otherness and Translation * Goddesses and Wisdom * Intertextuality * Forays into Rabbinics * The Personal / Autobiographical * Back to the Traditional * Bibliography

    Biography

    Athalya Brenner, Carole Fontaine