A feminist companion to the Hebrew Bible in the New Testament / / edited by Athalya Brenner

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910461571903321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Sheffield, England : , : Sheffield Academic Press, , [1996]; ©1996
• ISBN: 1-283-19548-8; 9786613195487; 0-567-24823-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (385 p.)
• Collana: The feminist companion to the Bible ; ; 10
• Disciplina: 225.6
• Soggetti: Women in the Bible; Bible and feminism; Christianity and other religions - Judaism; Feminist theology; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages [363]-384).
• Nota di contenuto: CONTENTS; Abbreviations; A Personal Note; Introduction; Part I: HEBREW BIBLE CHARACTERS RECYCLED: SOME PRINCIPLES; 'Only a Remnant of them Shall be Saved': Woman from the Hebrew Bible in New Testament Narratives; 'Old Wine in New Wineskins': The Refashioning of Male Hebrew Bible Characters in New Testament Texts; Gentiles and the Davidic Tradition in Matthew; Sarah's Seminal Emission: Hebrews 11.11 in the Light of Ancient Embryology; Part II. WOMEN AND THE FEMININE: NEW TESTAMENT WOMEN CHARACTERS; Mary's Call; The Foremothers and the Mother of Jesus; Elisabeth and Mary - Naomi and Ruth: Gender-Response Criticism in Luke 1-2From Narrative to History: The Resurrection of Mary and Martha; Scripture and the Feminine in John; A Symbolic Level of Meaning: John 2.1-11 (The Marriage in Cana); Part III. ON THE GENDERING OF THE FEMALE BODY; Eve through Several Lenses: Truth in 1 Timothy 2.8-15; Reflections on Violence and Pornography: Misogyny in the Apocalypse and Ancient Hebrew Prophecy; Disabilities and Illness ; in the Bible: A Feminist Perspective; Part IV. ANTI-JUDAISM IN THE NEW TESTAMENT AND ITS FEMINIST INTERPRETATIONS?; Second Temple Judaism, Jesus, and Women: Yeast of EdenThrough German and Feminist Eyes: A Liberationist Reading of Luke 7.36-50; In the Dangerous Currents of Old Prejudices: How Predominant Thoughts Have Disastrous Effects and What Could Be Done to Counter Them; Do the Origins Already Contain the Malady?; On 'Anti-Judaism' in German Feminist Thought: Some Reflections By Way of a Response; Bibliography
• Sommario/riassunto: This volume is part of a series which provides a fundamental resource for feminist biblical scholarship, containing a comprehensive selection of essays, both reprinted and specially written for the series, by leading feminist scholars. The contributors to this volume are Lyn Bechtel, Mark Bredin, Athalya Brenner, Edna Brocke, Carole Fontaine, Lillian Klein, Amy-Jill Levine, Judith Lieu, Heather McKay, Adele Reinhartz, Jane Schaberg, Marla Selvidge, Leonore Siegele-Wenschkewitz, Beverly Stratton, Arie Troost, Pieter van der Horst, and Bea Wyler.