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Record Nr.

UNINA9910812362603321

Titolo

A feminist companion to Ruth / / edited by Athalya Brenner

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Sheffield, England : , : Sheffield Academic Press, , [2001]

©2001

ISBN

1-283-19699-9

9786613196996

0-567-34826-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (221 p.)

Collana

The feminist companion to the Bible ; ; 3

Disciplina

222

222/.1106/082

Soggetti

Women in the Bible

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.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; Part I: GENDERED READING PERSPECTIVES; The Book of Ruth; Ruth: The Discourse of Power and the Power of Discourse; Heroism and Proper Names, Or the Fruits of Analogy; Naomi and Ruth; Returning Home: Ruth 1.8 and the Gendering of the Book of Ruth; Part II: GENDERED AUTHORSHIP?; Female Companionships: If the Book of Ruth were Written by a Woman...; Ruth: A Product of Women's Culture?; Naomi and Ruth: Further Reflections; Part III: ON SOME ANCIENT COMMENTS; A Thematic Approach to Ruth in Rabbinic Literature

Ruth according to Ephrem the SyrianPart IV: COMMENTS IN ART; Ruth and the Women of Bethlehem; Ruth; 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. 'An enterprising series of collections of important and pioneering studies.... Those teaching feminist courses will find the books invaluable as a resource for students.' C.S. Rodd, Expository Times.