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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... interpretations that update the scriptures for their own authors in much the same fashions and for similar purposes used by bible scholars and theologians , past and present . * Midrash being originally a Hebrew term referring to the ...
... interpretations that update the scriptures for their own authors in much the same fashions and for similar purposes used by bible scholars and theologians , past and present . * Midrash being originally a Hebrew term referring to the ...
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... interpret their story and relationship with one another . However , much less attention has been paid to Naomi's other daughter - in - law , Orpah , who gets excised out of the biblical story — and of most readers ' living memory — as ...
... interpret their story and relationship with one another . However , much less attention has been paid to Naomi's other daughter - in - law , Orpah , who gets excised out of the biblical story — and of most readers ' living memory — as ...
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... interpretation are taken up in individual chapters , such as media representations of literary renderings , and especially ( in keeping with my overall second subtext ) , literature written in Hebrew during the twentieth century ...
... interpretation are taken up in individual chapters , such as media representations of literary renderings , and especially ( in keeping with my overall second subtext ) , literature written in Hebrew during the twentieth century ...
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... interpretations ( that is , [ re ] writing ) , closer meta - investigation may prove such a claim suspect and in certain cases refutable . In that sense , once neo - midrash makes no claims for being anything else but what it is , in my ...
... interpretations ( that is , [ re ] writing ) , closer meta - investigation may prove such a claim suspect and in certain cases refutable . In that sense , once neo - midrash makes no claims for being anything else but what it is , in my ...
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... interpretations to present - day feminist midrash , sometimes with amusing parallel results — verbal , visual , plastic , you name it . ( I'm talking now about Jewish interpretative traditions , but a similar process obtains with regard ...
... interpretations to present - day feminist midrash , sometimes with amusing parallel results — verbal , visual , plastic , you name it . ( I'm talking now about Jewish interpretative traditions , but a similar process obtains with regard ...
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!