A Feminist Companion to Wisdom and Psalms [Paperback]

While the Wisdom volume in the first Feminist Companion series investigated multiple aspects of characterizations of women found in Wisdom literature, the 13 essays in this volume move beyond the study of the characterization of females that formed one of the first steps of modern feminist criticism-the recovery of what had been ignored or trivialized by androcentric readings dominant through the centuries. This second volume takes up questions of voice, exclusion and construction as well as the reinforcement of world views that, while perhaps necessary to the survival of the postexilic community as a whole, nevertheless left a legacy of continued gender asymmetry in Judaism and Christianity.

Abbreviations/ List of Contributors/ Preface/ Introduction/ Part I/ In General/Roland E. Murphy/ Wisdom and Creation/ Part II/ Wisdom Literature/Gerlinde Baumann/ A Figure with Many Facets: The Literary and Theological Functions of Personified Wisdom in Proverbs 1-9/Alice Ogden Bellis/ The Gender and Motives of the Wisdom Teacher in Proverbs 7/Christl Maier/ Conflicting Attractions/ Parental Wisdom and the 'Strange Woman' in Proverbs 1-9/Eric S. Christianson/ Qoheleth the 'Old Boy' and Qoheleth the 'New Man': Misogyny, the Womb and a Paradox in Ecclesiastes/Carole R. Fontaine/ 'Many Devices' (Qoheleth 7.23-8.1): Qoheleth, Misogyny, and theMalleus Maleficarum/Brian B. Noonan/ Wisdom Literature among the Witchmongers/Christl Maier and Silvia Schroer/ What About Job? Questioning the Book of 'The Righteous Sufferer'/Sidnie White Crawford/ Lady Wisdom and Dame Folly at Qumran/Ross S. Kraemer/ Aseneth as Wisdom/ Part III/ Feminists Read the Psalms/Ulrike Bail/ 'O God, hear my prayer': Psalm 55 and Violence against Women/Silvia Schroer/ '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 l-