Full Description
The feminist Companion to the Bitle (second series) This sparkling new collection of studies covers topics such as the Queen of Heaven, Saying No to a Prophet, Circumcision of the Prostitute, with the section on Daniel addressing, among other things, the wise queen mother of Daniel 5, and the Obtuse Foreign Ruler. This sparkling new collection of studies includes a reassessment of previous feminist exegesis, reconsiders women as prophets and takes a new look at goddesses. In particular, it looks more closely at the 'porno-prophetic' marriage metaphor. Essays include Judith Hadley on the Queen of Heaven, Mary Shields on 'Circumcision of the Prostitute', Julia M. O'Brien on 'Saying "No" to a Prophet', and articles by Esther Fuchs, Renat Jost and Rainer Kessler. The section on Daniel comprises A. Brenner on the 'Obtuse Foreign Ruler' in the Hebrew Bible, H. van Deventer on Women's Wisdom in Daniel 5, and an essay by Emily Sampson.
Contents
Abbreviations/ List of Contributors/ Athalya Brenner/ Introduction/ Part I/ Prophecy/ A. The Goddesss Revisited/ Judith M. Hadley/ The Queen of Heaven - Who is She?/ B. Female 'Prophets' or 'Prophetesses'?/ Esther Fuchs/ Prophecy and the Construction of Women: Inscription and Erasure/ Renate Jost/ The Daughters of Your People Prophesy/ Rainer Kessler/ Miriam and the Prophecy of the Persian Period/ C. The Pornoprophetic (?) Marriage Metaphor/ Gerlinde Baumann/ Propehtic Objections to YHWH as the Violent Husband of Israel: Reinterpretations of the Prophetic Marriage Metaphor in Second Isaiah (Isaiah 40-55)/ Mary E. Shields/ Circumcision of the Prostitute: Gender, Sexuality and the Call to Repentance in Jeremiah 3.1-4.4/ Mary E. Shields/ Self-Response to 'Circumcision of the Prostitute'/ Mary E. Shields/ Multiple Exposures: Body Rhetoric and Gender in Ezekiel 16/ Mary E. Shields/ Self-Response to' Multiple Exposures'/ Erin Runions/ Violence and the Economy of Desire in Ezekiel 16.1-45/ S. Tamar Kamionkowski/ Gender Reversal in Ezekiel 16/ Ulrike Sals/ Reading Zechariah 5. 5-11: Prophecy, Gender and (Ap)Perception/ Julia M. O'Brien/ On Saying "No" to a Prophet/ Julia M. O'Brien/ In Retrospect...Self-Response to 'on Saying "No" to a Prophet/ Mayer I. Gruber/ Nineveh the Adulteress/ Part II/ Daniel/ Athalya Brenner/ Who's Afraid of Feminist Criticism? Who's Afraid of Biblical Humour? The Case of the Obtuse Foreign Ruler in the Hebrew Bible/ Athalya Brenner/ Self-Response to 'Who's Afraid of Feminist Criticism?'/ H.J.M Van Deventer/ Another Wise Queen (Mother) - Women's Wisdom in Daniel 5.10-12?/ Emily Sampson/ Daniel, Belshazzar and Julia: The Rediscovery and Vindication of the Translation of Julia E. Smith (1792-1886)/ Bibliography/ Index of References/ Index of Authors
