A Feminist Companion to Genesis [Paperback]

This volume in the acclaimed feminist companion to the bible series, edited by Athalya Brenner, draws together a range of leading biblical commentators to discuss one of the most challenging and fascinating biblical texts for feminist interpretation, the book of Genesis.

Abbreviations/
List of Contributors/Athalya Brenner/Introduction/
I Creation and Paradise Revisited/Mary
Phil Korsak/...et GENETRIX/Ronald A.
Simkins/Gender Construction in the Yahwist Creation Myth/Diane M. Sharon/ The Doom of Paradise:
Literary Patterns in Accounts of Paradise and Mortality in the Hebrew Bible and
the Ancient Near East/ II Mal(e)practices/Ilona
N. Rashkow/Daddy-Dearest and the 'Invisible Spirit of the Wine'/Lyn M. Bechtel/A Feminist Reading of
Genesis 19.1-11/Carol Delaney/Abraham
and the Seeds of Patriarchy/Susanne
Scholz/Through Whose Eyes? A 'Right' Reading of Genesis 34/Mayer I. Gruber/Gebesis 21.12: A New
Reading of an Ambiguous Text/ III Female Modes/Danna Nolan Fewell/Changing the Subject: Retelling the Story of
Hagar the Egyptian/Phyllis Silverman
Kramer/The Dismissal of Hagar in Five Art Works of the Sixteenth and
Seventeenth Centuries/Phyllis Silverman
Kramer/Biblical Women that Come in Pairs: The Use of Female Pairs as a
Literary Device in the Hebrew Bible/J.
E. Lapsley/The Voice of Rachel: Resistance and Polyphony in Genesis 31.14-35/
Bibliography/ Index of References/ Index of Authors