Esther Fuchs
Esther Fuchs (born 1953) is an Israeli Jewish feminist biblical scholar. Fuchs is Professor of Near Eastern Studies and Judaic Studies at the University of Arizona. Biography. Esther Fuchs was born in Tel Aviv and studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Brandeis University. She taught at the University of Texas at Austin before moving to the University of Arizona. Fuchs is the author of "Israeli Mythogynies: Women in Contemporary Hebrew Fiction" (1987) and "Sexual Politics in the Biblical Narrative" (2000). She describes her work as an attempt to "depatriarchalize" the Hebrew Bible.