In the arms of biblical women
By: edited by John Greene, Mishael Caspi
Series: Biblical intersections -- 13; Biblical intersections -- 13.
Publisher: Gorgias Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Piscataway
Language: eng
Number of pages: 337
ISBN-13: 9781463202316
Subjects: Exegese; Bibel; Frau; Rezeption; Biblische Person; Women in the Bible
Description: The less-discussed character in the Bible is the woman: two talking animals therein have sometimes received more page space. This volume shines the light of close scrutiny in the less-trodden direction and focuses on biblical and allied women, or on the feminine side of Creation. Biblical women are compared to mythical characters from the wider Middle East or from contemporary literature, and feminist/womanist perspectives are discussed alongside traditional and theological perspectives.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Prolegomenon. With sudden passion, sudden pain: in the arms of the biblical women  -- Mishael M. Caspi and -- John T. Greene; title: Creating Eve: feminine fertility in medieval Islamic narratives of Eve and Adam  -- Zohar Hadromi-Allouche; title: Hagar as a bad mother, Hagar as an icon of faith: the Hagar narratives from the Islamic and the Christian traditions discussed among Muslim and Christian women in Norway  -- Anne Hege Grung; title: The biblical matriarch Sarah as conceived by Rabbi Ya'akov Khulí in his work Me'am Lo'ez (1730): a Ladino commentary on the Book of Genesis  -- Alisa Meyuhas Ginio; title: On naming and blaming: Hagar's God-talk in Jewish and early Christian sources  -- Marianne Bjelland Kartzow; title: The concubine of Gibeah: the case for reading intertextually  -- Naomi Graetz; title: Convert, prostitute, or traitor? Rahab as the anti-matriarch in contemporary biblical interpretations  -- Suzanne Scholz; title: Guilty pleasures: hearing Susanna's story intoned by Leonard Cohen  -- Ruthanne Wrobel; title: Mothers of the nation as pounds of flesh  -- Azila Talit Reisenberger; title: That's what she said: a "one-flesh" dynamic in Genesis 12-22  -- Sophia Magallanes; title: Daring Women  -- Mishael M. Caspi; title: Judah's Tamar through a psychological lens, the testimony of the Bible and Qur'an  -- J. Harold Ellens; title: Virginity as sagacity and wisdom  -- John Tracy Greene; title: Why didn't Ruth the Moabitess raise her child? "A son is born to Naomi" (Ruth 4:17)  -- Yitzhak (Itzik) Peleg; title: Lilith and the future of biblical humanism  -- Anthony Swindell; title: Hannah's song of praise as paradigm for the "canticle of the virgin" (magnificat) -- Max Stern.