Studies in Bible and Feminist Criticism (JPS Scholar of Distinction Series)Each of the 30 essays here delves into a topic that gives us much food for thought: the Bible as interpreted through ancient Near-Eastern creation myths, flood myths, and goddess myths; gender in the Bible; the feminist approach to Jewish law; comparative Jewish and Christian perspectives on the Hebrew Bible; biblical perspectives on ecology; creating a theology of healing; feminine God-talk. The volume concludes with the author's own original prayers in the form of poetic meditations on pregnancy and birthing. This book is unique, not only because it is the only volume in the JPS Scholar of Distinction series written by a woman, but also because Frymer-Kensky's personal and forthright voice resonates so clearly throughout each piece. Scholars and students of Bible, Jewish studies, and women's studies will surely find this to be a one-of-a kind collection. |
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... ANCIENT NEAR EASTERN RELIGIONS Creation Myths 1 / Atrahasis : An Introduction E ix xi XXV 2 / The Planting of Man : A Study in Biblical Imagery 19 69 5 Flood Myths 3 / Israel and the Ancient Near East : New Perspectives on the Flood 37 ...
... ANCIENT NEAR EASTERN RELIGIONS Creation Myths 1 / Atrahasis : An Introduction E ix xi XXV 2 / The Planting of Man : A Study in Biblical Imagery 19 69 5 Flood Myths 3 / Israel and the Ancient Near East : New Perspectives on the Flood 37 ...
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... Ancient Near East 187 13 / Sanctifying Torah 197 14 / Reading Rahab 211 FEMINIST PERSPECTIVES II : GENDER AND THE LAW 15 / Patriarchal Family Relationships and Near Eastern Law 16 / Law and Philosophy : The Case of Sex in the Bible 17 ...
... Ancient Near East 187 13 / Sanctifying Torah 197 14 / Reading Rahab 211 FEMINIST PERSPECTIVES II : GENDER AND THE LAW 15 / Patriarchal Family Relationships and Near Eastern Law 16 / Law and Philosophy : The Case of Sex in the Bible 17 ...
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... Ancient Near East”: I became pregnant. At that time (1978), academic women were not supposed to notice their pregnancies. We were to carry on as if nothing was happening, and then take two weeks off and come back as if we had taken a ...
... Ancient Near East”: I became pregnant. At that time (1978), academic women were not supposed to notice their pregnancies. We were to carry on as if nothing was happening, and then take two weeks off and come back as if we had taken a ...
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... ancient readings, which I translated, but they addressed only concep- tion and difficult birth and were mainly focused on the hope for healthy babies and the life of the mother. This perspective was understandable, since half of all ancient ...
... ancient readings, which I translated, but they addressed only concep- tion and difficult birth and were mainly focused on the hope for healthy babies and the life of the mother. This perspective was understandable, since half of all ancient ...
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... ancient law, and that there was nothing inherent to women's studies or to feminism that would prevent the highest standards of scholar- ship. I knew that these two projects meant I would have to delay the publication of my dissertation ...
... ancient law, and that there was nothing inherent to women's studies or to feminism that would prevent the highest standards of scholar- ship. I knew that these two projects meant I would have to delay the publication of my dissertation ...
Contents
JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY | 89 |
GENDER AND THE BIBLE | 157 |
GENDER AND THE LAW | 223 |
BIBLICAL THEOLOGY | 283 |
CONSTRUCTIVE THEOLOGY | 363 |
Bibliography of the Published Writings of Tikva FrymerKensky | 429 |
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Page 435 - JAOS Journal of the American Oriental Society JBL Journal of Biblical Literature...
Page 80 - Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.
Page 312 - It is not because you are the most numerous of peoples that the LORD set His heart on you and chose you — indeed, you are the smallest of peoples; but it was because the LORD loved you and kept the oath He made to your fathers that the LORD freed you with a mighty hand and rescued you from the house of bondage, from the power of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
Page 312 - Know, therefore, that only the Lord your GOD is GOD, the steadfast GOD who keeps His gracious covenant to the thousandth generation of those who love Him and keep His commandments...
Page 180 - But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female. For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife ; and they twain shall be one flesh : so then they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
Page 338 - As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease.
Page 85 - When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is man that you are mindful of him, the son of man that you care for him?
Page 65 - Would to God we had died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh pots, and when we did eat bread to the full ; for ye have brought Us forth into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger.
Page 15 - ... all those abhorrent things were done by the people who were in the land before you, and the land became defiled. 28] So let not the land spew you out for defiling it, as it spewed out the nation that came before you.