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Feminist biblical interpretation : a compendium of critical commentary on the books of the Bible and related literature
Kompendium Feministische Bibelauslegung. English.
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- Creator
- edited by Luise Schottroff and Marie-Theres Wacker ; with the cooperation of Claudia Janssen and Beate Wehn ; Martin Rumscheidt, editor of the American edition ; translated by Lisa E. Dahill ... [and others]
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- English
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- Grand Rapids, Mich. : W.B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., 2012
- Physical Details
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- xxv, 1030 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780802860972, 0802860974
- OCLC
- ocn785868215
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Translated from the German.
- Genesis 1-11 : the primordial history / Helen Schüngel-Straumann -- Genesis 12-50 : the story of Israel's origins as a women's story / Irmtraud Fischer -- Exodus : the meaning of liberation from "his" perspective / Susanne Scholz -- Leviticus : the ABC of creation / Gerburgis Feld -- Numbers : on boundaries / Ursual Rapp -- Deuteronomy : rights and justice for women in the law / Angelika Engelmann -- Joshua : tradition and justice : women's share in the inheritance / Kerstin Ulrich -- Judges : encoded messages to women / J. Cheryl Exum -- Ruth : border crossings of two women in patriarchal society / Ina Johanne Petermann (Batmartha) -- Books of Samuel : women at the center of Israel's history / Ilse Müllner -- Books of Kings : images of women without women's reality / Kyung Sook Lee -- Books of Chronicles : in the vestibule of women / Marie-Theres Wacker -- Ezra and Nehemiah : the return of the others / Christiane Karrer-Grube -- Esther : about resistance against anti-Semitism and sexism / Klara Butting -- Job : questioning the book of the righteous sufferer / Christl Maier and Silvia Schroer -- The Psalms : "who is speaking may be all that matters" / Ulrike Bail -- Proverbs : how feminine wisdom comes into being / Christl Maier -- Qoheleth (Ecclesiastes) : man alone, without woman / Kumiko Kato -- Song of Songs : polyphony of love / Athalya Brenner -- Isaiah : the book of female metaphors / Irmtraud Fischer -- Jeremiah : when wise wailing women and prophetic pornography show the way into exile / Angela Bauer-Levesque -- Lamentations : Zion's cry in affliction / Maria Häusl -- Ezekiel : male prophecy with female imagery / Renate Jost and Elke Seifert -- Daniel : not counting women and children / Ilse von Loewenclau -- Hosea : the God-identified man and the woman (women) Israel / Marie-Theres Wacker -- Joel : God's self-justification / Marie-Theres Wacker -- Amos : the truth is concrete / Marie-Theres Wacker -- Obadiah : brother Edom / Marie-Theres Wacker -- Jonah : the Jonah experience : for women too? / Maria Kassel -- Micah : call for justice : hope for all / Sophia Bietenhard -- Nahum : the just God as sexual predator / Gerlinde Baumann -- Habakkuk : a political night-prayer / Ulrike Bail -- Zephaniah : or, the threefold Jerusalem / Ulrike Bail -- Haggai and Zechariah : a new temple : new life for all / Beate Schmidtgen -- Malachi : to the glory of God, the Father? / Marie-Theres Wacker --
- 1 Maccabees : women's existence at the edges of the text / Claudia Rakel -- 2 Maccabees : the teaching of history / Christine Gerber -- Tobit : a lesson marriage and family in the diaspora / Helen Schüngel-Straumann -- Judith : about a beauty who is not what she pretends to be / Claudia Rakel -- Baruch : mail from distant shores / Marie-Theres Wacker -- Sirach (Ecclesiasticus) : on the difficult relation between divine wisdom and real women in an androcentric document / Angelika Strotmann -- Wisdom : an example of Jewish intercultural theology / Silvia Schroer -- 4 Ezra : on the struggle for new life, the time that is being fulfilled, and the transformation of the earth (2 Esdras 3-14) / Luzia Sutter Rehmann -- Joseph and Aseneth : perfect bride or heavenly prophetess / Angela Standhartinger -- Testament of Job : Job, Dinah, and their daughters / Luzia Sutter Rehmann -- Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs : how men use power / Renate Kirchhoff --
- Gospel of Matthew : Jewish-Christian churches in opposition to the Pax Romana / Martina S. Gnadt -- Gospel of Mark : women as true disciples of Jesus / Monika Fander -- Gospel of Luke : the humbled will be lifted up / Claudia Janssen and Regene Lamb -- Gospel of John : spaces for women / Ruth Habermann -- Acts of the Apostles : looking forward and looking back / Ivoni Richter Reimer -- Romans : a feminist reading / Elsa Tamez -- 1 Corinthians : how freedom comes to be / Luise Schottroff -- 2 Corinthians : sacrificing difference for unity / Carline Vander Stichele -- Galatians : on discomfort about gender and other problems of otherness / Brigitte Kahl -- Ephesians : community spirit and conservative values as survival strategies in the churches of Asia Minor / Helga Melzer-Keller -- Philippians : lifting up those who have been put down / Sheila Briggs -- Colossians : the origin of the table of household duties / Angela Standhartiger -- 1 Thessalonians : opposing death by building community / Jutta Bickmann -- 2 Thessalonians : hope in God's just judgment / Marlene Crüsemann -- Pastoral Epistles : a tamed Paul : domesticated women / Ulrike Wagener -- Philemon : a reading under Apphia's critical eyes / Sabine Bieberstein -- Hebrews : strangers in the world / Ulrike Wagener -- James : conflict about the way of justice / Irene Dannemann -- 1 Peter : survival strategies for harried communities / Irene Foulkes -- 2 Peter : guideposts for the godly life / Irene Foulkes -- Letters of John / Kerstin Ruoff -- Jude : the implications of feminist reading / Ruth Anne Reese -- Revelation : inspirations from Patmos / Luzia Sutter Rehmann -- The story of Thecla : apostle between fiction and reality / Anne Jensen -- Acts of Xanthippe, Polyxena, and Rebecca : or, three women and two lionesses / Irene Dannemann -- Gospel of Mary : Mary Magdelene as beloved disciple and representative of Jesus / Judith Hartenstein and Silke Petersen -- Gospel of Thomas : early Christian traditions about women disciples of Jesus : or, Mary Magdalene becomes male / Judith Hartenstein and Silke Petersen -- Shepherd of Hermas : being enticed into conversion in the erotic church of Sophia / Ulrike Auga -- Gospel of Peter : a female disciple of the Lord and her female friends / Caroline Vander Stichele -- Protevangelium of James : God's story goes on / Bettina Eltrop and Claudia Janssen