1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910791156003321

Autore

Scholz Susanne <1963->

Titolo

Introducing the women's Hebrew Bible : feminism, gender justice, and the study of the Old Testament / / Susanne Scholz

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Bloomsbury T&T Clark, , [2017]

©2017

ISBN

0-567-66339-6

0-567-28739-4

0-567-66338-8

0-567-57708-2

Edizione

[Second edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (154 pages)

Collana

Introductions in Feminist Theology ; ; 13

Disciplina

221.6082

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Personal Beginnings; Forging a Path in Feminist Biblical Studies; About the Content of This Book; Purpose and Limitations of This Volume; And the Next Generation...; 1. From the ""Woman's Bible"" to the ""Women's Bible"": The History of Feminist Approaches to the Hebrew Bible; ""In the Image of God"": Individual Women's Voices in Western Societies From the Middle Ages to the Nineteenth Century

""Inspired by Mrs God"": Nineteenth-Century Women's Voices of the First Women's Movement in Western Societies; The Woman''s Bible Commentary; ""Nothing in Common Save Their Sex"": Early and Mid-Twentieth Century Women's Voices; ""With a Feminist Hermeneutics"": Women's Scholarship on the Hebrew Bible since the Second Feminist Movement; Characteristics of a Feminist Hermeneutics; Her Master's Tool or a Source of Liberation? A Conclusion; 2 A Career as a Feminist Biblical Scholar: Four Stories; ""I Have Been a Feminist since Birth"": The Story of Phyllis Trible (*1932)

It''s Not All Suffering-So Enjoy!"" The Story of Athalya Brenner (*1943)""Dreaming of Justice and Living Ecumenically"": The Story of Elsa Tamez



(*1950); From Math to Feminist Theology: The Story of Marie-Theres Wacker (*1952); And the Next Generation: A Conclusion; 3. Gendering the Hebrew Bible: Methodological Considerations; Historical Criticism; Literary Criticism; Cultural Criticism; Women in Ancient Israelite Society; Literary Representations of Biblical Mothers; Renderings of Biblical Gender in Culture; Methodological Considerations: In Conclusion

4. Rape, Enslavement, and Marriage: Sexual Violence in the Hebrew Bible; Raped and Enslaved: Sexual Violence in Biblical Narrative; The City as a Raped Woman: Sexual Violence in Biblical Poetry; A Sacred Witness? Concluding Remarks; 5. Ruth, Jezebel, and Rahab as ""Other"" Women: Integrating Postcolonial Perspectives; The Postcolonial Imagination; Postcolonialism and Biblical Studies; Postcolonial Feminist Studies of the Bible; She Is Like Us: Textual Alignments With the ""Other"" Women; In Favor of Ordinary Two-Third World Women; Spinning Hybrid Interpretations Within (Post)colonial Theory; Beyond Subordination and Domination: In Conclusion; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index of References; Index of Authors

Sommario/riassunto

This book introduces readers to the diverse field of feminist studies on the Hebrew Bible. Not organized as a traditional introduction to the ""Old Testament,"" the manuscript does not follow a biblical book-by-book structure, but provides an introductory survey of the history and issues as they relate to feminist readings and readers of the Hebrew Bible. Accordingly, feminist scholars of the Bible, their career struggles, and biblical texts, characters, and themes stand in the forefront of this introduction. The volume is biased toward ""Western"" feminist scholarship because of the historica



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784024703321

Titolo

Biblical perspectives [[electronic resource] /] / guest editor: Joseph Cheng

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bradford, England, : Emerald Group Publishing, c2006

ISBN

1-280-70592-2

9786610705924

1-84663-141-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (60 p.)

Collana

Managerial Finance ; ; 32, no. 10

Altri autori (Persone)

ChengJoseph

Soggetti

Religion and politics

Finance, Public

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; CONTENTS; EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD; The parables, premium puzzles, and the CAPM; Finance: on earth as it is in heaven?; Investing in stocks: three models of faith integration; The impact of corruption on financial markets; Investment principles and strategies of faith-based funds; Call for papers;

Sommario/riassunto

Will there be finance in heaven?  What does finance in heaven have to do with finance here on earth?  Drawing on a Reformed Christian worldview, this special issue discusses not only what finance may look like in heaven but also why and how such a discussion is relevant for practicing finance today.