Strangely familiar
Subtitle: protofeminist interpretations of patriarchal biblical texts
By: edited by Nancy Calvert-Koyzis, Heather E. Weir.
Contributors: Koyzis, Nancy Calvert.; Weir, Heather E.; Society of Biblical Literature. Meeting
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 291
ISBN-13: 9789004177932
Subjects: Bible. -- O.T. -- Isaiah -- Feminist criticism -- Congresses
Notes: Chiefly papers presented by the recovering female interpretation of the Bible consultation at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature held Nov. 21-25, 2008 in Boston, Mass.

Includes bibliographical references (p.         ) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Poetic imagination, intertextuality, and life in a symbolic world / Roy F. Melugin; title: Persistent vegetative states: people as plants and plants as people; title: In Isaiah / Patricia K. Tull; title: Like a mother I have comforted you: the function of figurative; title: Language in Isaiah 1:7-26 and 66:7-14 / Chris A. Franke; title: A bitter memory: Isaiah's commission in Isaiah 6:1-13 / A. Joseph Everson; title: Poetic vision in Isaiah 7:18-25 / H. G. M. Williamson; title: YHWH's sovereign rule and his adoration on Mount Zion: a; title: Comparison of poetic visions in Isaiah 24-27, 52, and 66 / Willem A. M. Beuken; title: The legacy of Josiah in Isaiah 40-55 / Marvin A. Sweeney; title: Spectrality in the prologue to Deutero-Isaiah / Francis Landy; title: The spider-poet: signs and symbols in Isaiah 41 / Hyun Chul Paul Kim; title: Consider the source: a reading of the servant's identity and task in Isaiah 42:1-9 / James M. Kennedy; title: "They all gather, they come to you": history, utopia, and the reading of Isaiah 49:18-26 and 60:4-16" / Roy D. Wells; title: From desolation to delight: the transformative vision of Isaiah 60-62 / Carol J. Dempsey; title: The nations' journey to Zion: pilgrimage and tribute as metaphor in the book of Isaiah / Gary Stansell.