Feminist Theory and the Bible (eBook)

Interrogating the Sources

Esther Fuchs (Autor)

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2016
180 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
9781498527828 (ISBN)

Infos

Feminist Theory and the Bible conceptualizes, contextualizes, and maps a new kind of burgeoning scholarship that has emerged in recent decades. The chapters included here consider both the theory and practice of feminist Biblical studies.

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Feminist Theory and the Bible: Interrogating the Sources conceptualizes, contextualizes and maps a new kind of burgeoning scholarship that has grown up in recent decades. This scholarship emerged in the margins of Feminist Studies and Biblical Studies and has yet to find a foothold in either one of these more established contexts. In this book, Esther Fuchs argues that in order to find an enduring, stable place in the academe, this scholarship requires a theoretical perspective. Biblical Studies as a whole has not yet been sufficiently theorized as an academic field, and currently consists of multiple disciplines relying for the most part on traditional scholarly discourses. In this regard, Feminist Biblical Studies is both a departure from and an important supplement to both Feminist Studies and Biblical Studies.

Autor

Esther Fuchs, PhD, is the author of numerous academic books and essays in Hebrew literature, Israel studies, Holocaust studies and biblical studies. She taught for over a quarter of a century at the University of Arizona, as a tenured professor of Judaic studies, and prior to that she taught at the University of Texas in Austin and at Brandeis University. Her interest is focused on the intersection of gender, identity and scholarship in Jewish studies. Among her publications are Cunning Innocence: Ironic Art in S.Y. Agnon’s Work (1985 in Hebrew), Israeli Mythogynies: Women in Contemporary Hebrew Fiction (1987), Women and the Holocaust: Narrative and Representation (1999), Sexual Politics in the Biblical Narrative: Reading the Hebrew Bible as a Woman (2000), Israeli Women’s Studies: A Reader (2005) and Israeli Feminist Scholarship: Gender, Zionism and Difference (2014). She is the co-editor of On the Cutting Edge: The Study of Women in Biblical Worlds (2004), and her latest book is Feminist Theory and the Bible.

Inhalt

1. Feminist Approaches to the Hebrew Bible2. Biblical Feminisms: Knowledge, Theory and Politics in the Study of Women in the Hebrew Bible3. The Neo-Liberal Turn in Feminist Biblical Studies4. Jephthah’s Daughter: A Feminist Postcolonial Approach5. Women as Prophets/Women in Prophets: Gender, Nation and Discourse6. Intermarriage, Gender, and Nation in the Hebrew Bible

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 23.2.2016
• Reihe/Serie: Feminist Studies and Sacred Texts
• Verlagsort: Lanham
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Bibelausgaben / Bibelkommentare
• Themenwelt: Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Judentum
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: biblical feminist scholarship • Feminism • feminist biblical theory • feminist literary critique • Hebrew Bible • Religion and Gender • womanist biblical theory • Women in the Bible
• ISBN-13: 9781498527828 / 9781498527828