Pubbl/distr/stampa	Sheffield : , : Sheffield Academic Press Ltd, , [1998]
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (333 p.)
Disciplina	223/.06/082
Collana	The feminist companion to the Bible
ISBN	1-283-20568-8 9786613205681 1-4411-3807-2
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	CONTENTS; Abbreviations; List of Contributors; Preface; Introduction; Wisdom and Creation; A Figure with Many Facets: The Literary and Theological Functions of Personified Wisdom in Proverbs 1-9; The Gender and Motives of the Wisdom Teacher in Proverbs 7; Conflicting Attractions: Parental Wisdom and the 'Strange Woman' in Proverbs 1-9; Qoheleth the 'Old Boy' and Qoheleth the 'New Man': Misogynism, the Womb and a Paradox in Ecclesiastes; 'Many Devices' (Qoheleth 7.23-8.1): Qoheleth, Misogyny and the Malleus Maleticarum; Wisdom Literature among the Witchmongers Wjat about Job? Questioning the Book of 'The Righteous Sufferer'Lady Wisdom and Dame Folly at Qumran; Aseneth as Wisdom; 'O God, hear my prayer': Psalm 55 and Violence against Women; 'Under the Shadow of your Wings': The Metaphor of God's Wings in the Psalms, Exodus 19.4, Deuteronomy 32.11 and Malachi 3.20, as Seen through the Perspectives of Feminism and the History of Religion; Hearing the Cries Unspoken: An Intertextual Feminist Reading of Psalm 109; Bibliography; Index of References; Index of Authors
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