I Am . . .: Biblical Women Tell Their Own StoriesFortress Press - 228 pages Athalya Brenner presents fictionalized "autobiographies" of a dozen women and women groups in the Hebrew Bible, and also lets them share a conversation session. This allows her to include how these women have been interpreted - not only in the Bible itself, but also in Jewish and Christian traditions and by modern commentators. The result is a thoroughly engaging and insightful look at women, from a leading biblical interpreter who has a very creative edge to all her work. |
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Biblical Women Tell Their Own Stories Athalya Brenner. I AM ... Biblical Women Tell Their Own Stories Copyright © 2005 ... Bible translations are the author's own . Scripture marked NJPS are from the TANAKH : The New Jewish Publication ...
Biblical Women Tell Their Own Stories Athalya Brenner. I AM ... Biblical Women Tell Their Own Stories Copyright © 2005 ... Bible translations are the author's own . Scripture marked NJPS are from the TANAKH : The New Jewish Publication ...
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... bible scholars would . [ Re ] reading the Bible I complained to my friends that I was suffering from a malaise : an increasing mistrust of the many critics , and readers , who are devoted to the engrossing task of understanding the bible ...
... bible scholars would . [ Re ] reading the Bible I complained to my friends that I was suffering from a malaise : an increasing mistrust of the many critics , and readers , who are devoted to the engrossing task of understanding the bible ...
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... biblical narratives look like if reread confessedly and unashamedly with modern and postmodern concerns in mind , openly emphasizing concerns voiced by contemporary bible and literature scholars instead of guesses about " original ...
... biblical narratives look like if reread confessedly and unashamedly with modern and postmodern concerns in mind , openly emphasizing concerns voiced by contemporary bible and literature scholars instead of guesses about " original ...
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Biblical Women Tell Their Own Stories Athalya Brenner. [ Re ] writinq the Bible This cluster of questions concerning " the bible as it was " and academic [ re ] reading of biblical texts is one cluster I've been thinking about recently ...
Biblical Women Tell Their Own Stories Athalya Brenner. [ Re ] writinq the Bible This cluster of questions concerning " the bible as it was " and academic [ re ] reading of biblical texts is one cluster I've been thinking about recently ...
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Biblical Women Tell Their Own Stories Athalya Brenner. Accessibility and Personal Solutions What to do , then , to sidestep the trap of imaging the past for its own sake and to overcome the oft - tiring nature of academic discourse , as ...
Biblical Women Tell Their Own Stories Athalya Brenner. Accessibility and Personal Solutions What to do , then , to sidestep the trap of imaging the past for its own sake and to overcome the oft - tiring nature of academic discourse , as ...
Contents
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ONE War Culture WivesMothers from A to | 9 |
Dinah | 25 |
Zipporah | 58 |
Rizpah Daughter of Ayah | 120 |
We Are Tamar and Tamar | 133 |
I Am Zeruiah | 147 |
Huldah the Prophet | 155 |
Am an Anonymous Woman from | 163 |
Am the Convener | 191 |
THIRTEEN Goodbye | 211 |
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Page 176 - Coral is far more red than her lips' red: If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun; If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head. I have seen roses damasked, red and white, But no such roses see I in her cheeks; And in some perfumes is there more delight Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks. I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound; I grant I never saw a goddess go; My mistress, when...
Page 203 - There were two men in one city; the one rich, and the other poor. The rich man had exceeding many flocks and herds: but the poor man had nothing, save one little ewe lamb...
Page 52 - And it came to pass from the time that he had made him overseer in his house, and over all that he had, that the Lord blessed the Egyptian's house for Joseph's sake; and the blessing of the Lord was upon all that he had in the house, and in the field.
Page 203 - And David's anger was greatly kindled against the man; and he said to Nathan, "As the Lord liveth, the man that hath done this thing shall surely die. And he shall restore the lamb fourfold, because he did this thing and because he had no pity.
Page 52 - And his master saw that the LORD was with him, and that the LORD made all that he did to prosper in his hand.
Page 12 - O my dove, that art in the clefts of the rock, in the secret places of the stairs; let me see thy countenance, let me hear thy voice; for sweet is thy voice, and thy countenance is comely.
Page 71 - Zip-po'rah took a flint and cut off her son's foreskin, and touched Moses' feet with it, and said, "Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me!