Ruth and Esther :a feminist companion to the Bible /edited by Athalya Brenner.
Description
Introduction /Athalya Brenner --I. Ruth -- A. Aspects of the Ruth scroll --The Book of Ruth : a 'feminist' commentary to the Torah? /Irmtraud Fischer --Ruth, the model emigr{acute}ee : mourning and the symbolic politics of immigration /Bonnie Honig --Facing the other : Ruth-the-cat in medieval Jewish illuminations /Carole R. Fontaine --Ruth and Naomi : two Biblical figures revived among rural women in germany / dr Ursula Silber --'Women of the neighborhood' (Ruth 4.17) : informal female networks in ancient Israel /Carol Meyers --B. Ruth papers, Orpah papers : papers delivered at the 'Semiotics and exegesis' Session, American Society of Biblical Literature, November, 1997 --The sign of Orpah : reading Ruth through native eyes /Laura E. Donaldson --The unpublished letters of Orpah to Ruth /Musa W. Dube --A son is born to naomi : a harvest for Israel /Judith E. McKinlay --Ruth as foreign worker and the politics of exogamy /Athalya Brenner --Culture, ethics and identity in reading Ruth : a response to Donaldson, Dube, McKinlay and Brenner /Roland Boer --II. Ruth and Esther : mothers and daughters --The invisible relationship made visible : Biblical mothers and daughters /Leila Leah Bronner --Black mother women and daughters : signifying female-divine relationships in the Hebrew Bible and African-American mother-daughter short stories /Cheryl A. Kirk-Duggan --III. Esther --Lots of writing /Mieke Bal --Esther : a new interpretation of the Joseph story in the fight against anti-Semitism and sexism /Klara Butting.
271 p. ;24 cm.
Book Details
Place Published
City
Sheffield
Date Published
circa 1999
Publication Subjects
Bible.--Ruth--Feminist criticism.
Bible.--Esther--Feminist criticism.
Bible--Feminist criticism.
Bible.--Ruth--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bible.--Esther--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Women in the Bible.
Bible and feminism.
Feminist theology.
Ruth (bijbelboek)--gtt
Esther (bijbelboek)--gtt
Feministische theologie.--gtt
Call No.
BS1315.2 .R87 1999
ISBN
1850759782, 9781850759782
Notes
Bibliography Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-262) and indexes.