A feminist companion to wisdom literature / / edited by Athalya Brenner

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910826667203321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Sheffield : , : Sheffield Academic Press, , [1995]; ©1995
• ISBN: 1-283-20014-7; 9786613200143; 0-567-50690-8
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (265 p.)
• Collana: The feminist companion to the Bible ; ; 9
• Disciplina: 223/.06/082
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Bibliography: pages [252]-264.
• Nota di contenuto: CONTENTS; Abbreviations; Introduction; Part I. WOMEN AND WISDOM: SOCIAL ROLES AND LITERARY FIGURATIONS; The Social Roles of Women in the World of Wisdom; Some Observations on the Figurations of Woman in Wisdom Literature; Wise and Counselling Women in Ancient Israel: Literary and Historical Ideals of the Personified hokmâ; Who is êset hayil in Rabbinic Literature?; Part II. WISDOM AND OTHERNESS: THE CASE OF THE ISSA ZARA; Who Would Blame Her? The 'Strange' Woman of Proverbs 7; 'I Have Perfumed my Bed with Myrrh': The Foreign Woman (issa zara) in Proverbs 1-9; The Socio-Literary Production of the 'Foreign Woman' in ProverbsWise and Strange: An Interpretation of the Female Imagery in Proverbs in Light of Trickster Mythology; The Strange Woman of Proverbs 1-9 and Post-Exilic Judaean Society; Part III. ON THE BOOK OF JOB; Job and the Womb: Text about Men; Subtext about Women; The Development of Job: Mrs Job as Catalyst; A Feminist Approach to the Book of Job; Bibliography
• Sommario/riassunto: This collection presents essays on the configuration of 'woman' in the biblical wisdom literature from various perspectives: social (with ancient Near Eastern illuminations), literary/intertextual (in the sense of inner-biblical intertextuality), and theological (with reference to ; postbiblical Jewish and Christian texts). The figures of the 'woman of worth' and the 'strange woman' in the book of Proverbs are examined, and feminist readings of the book of Job are also offered. The contributors to this volume are Lyn Bechtel, Athalya Brenner, Claudia Camp, Carole Fontaine, Mieke Heijerman, Lilli