Feminist Companion to Samuel-Kings (Feminist Companion to the Bible)

Author: Brenner-Idan, Athalya

Brand: Sheffield Academic Press

Number Of Pages: 286

EAN: 9781850754800

Release Date: 01-05-1994

Package Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.4 x 0.7 inches

Languages: English

Binding: Paperback

Part Number: Refer to Sapnet.

Details: A stimulating collection of studies by leading feminist scholars offering radical readings of the Old Testament books of Samuel and Kings. Although gender ideology may have been only a 'side issue' for the writers of these texts, the articles in this collection show that it is definitely a constituent of the general ideological framework of this section of Israel's historiography, and they explore the texts for women's lives, female voices, gendered types, and the presence of women in the written history. As Athalya Brenner states in her introduction to the volume, in looking at the presentation of women and femaleness in Samuel and Kings we 'encounter chiefly relational images': women are seen as daughters, mothers, queen mothers, and in their relations to kings and prophets.