Feminist Companion to Reading the Bible Approaches, Methods And Strategies [Paperback]

A Feminist Companion to Reading the Bible: Approaches, Methods and Strategies forms a conclusion to the series of 10 volumes published in the groundbreaking Feminist Companion to the Bible since 1993. Not only is this the companion to the Companion, but, it is at the same time the forerunner and companion to a second series of nine volumes of the Feminist Companion. In all, there will be a unique collection of 20 volumes representing the enormous range of influence that feminist criticism has come to have in biblical studies. Anchored always in particular biblical texts, the essays in this multi-authored Companion to Reading the Bible have a distinct methodological slant, reflecting the numerous developments in feminist criticism that have occurred since the first books in the series were published, and forming an indispensable handbook for every biblical scholar and student today.

Preface/ Abbreviations/Athalya Brenner/ Introduction/ Part I/ Metacritics/Adele Reinhartz/ Feminist Criticism and Biblical Studies on the Verge of the Twenty-First Century/Pamela J. Milne/ Toward Feminist Companionship: The Future of Feminine Biblical Studies and Feminism/Heather A. McKay/ On the Future of Feminist Biblical Criticism/Carole R. Fontaine/ The Abusive Bible: On the Use of Feminist Method in Pastoral Contexts/ Carol Smith/ Challenged by the Text: Interpreting Two Stories of Incest in the Hebrew Bible/Athalya Brenner/ Identifying the Speaker-in-the-Text and the Reader's Location in Prophetic Texts: The Case of Isaiah 50/Carole R. Fontaine/ Response to Brenner's 'Speaker-in-the-Text'/ Part II/ Difference and Otherness/Sharon H. Ringe/ Approach to a Critical , Feminist, Theological Reading of the Bible/Alicia Suskin Ostriker/ A Triple Hermeneutic: Scripture and Revisionist Women's Poetry/Katharina Von Kellenbach/ Overcoming the Teaching of Contempt/Kwok Pui-Lan/ Overlapping Communities and Multl›