Ruth and Esther /
The second series of Feminist Companions moves beyond the confines of sex- and gender-specific issues and studies of biblical women. Biblical feminist critics now address contemporary life situations, marginalization and a range of questions once not thought accessible to such critique. Feminist the...
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| Series: | Feminist companion to the Bible. Second series ;
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Table of Contents:
- 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 emigrée : 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- The unpublished letters of Orpah to Ruth / Musa W. Dube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.