I Am . . .
Biblical Women Tell Their Own Stories
- This item is not returnable
- Ships in 2 or more weeks
-
Quantity discount
- # of Items Price
- 1 to 9$29.00
- 10 or more$21.75
I Am . . .: Biblical Women Tell Their Own Stories
Athalya Brenner presents fictionalized "autobiographies" of a dozen women and women groups in the Hebrew Bible, and also lets them share a conversation session. This allows her to include how these women have been interpreted — not only in the Bible itself, but also in Jewish and Christian traditions and by modern commentators. The result is a thoroughly engaging and insightful look at women, from a leading biblical interpreter who has a very creative edge to all her work.
- Publisher Fortress Press
- Format Paperback
- ISBN 9780800636654
- Dimensions 5.5 x 8.5
- Pages 248
- Publication Date November 3, 2004
Endorsements
''Brenner gives voice to many of the otherwise almost-voiceless female characters of the Hebrew Bible, and she allows them to speak in their own voices.... The book draws on Brenner's own impressive expertise as well as a broad range of traditional scholarship. To these she adds imagination and creativity and by so doing takes feminist biblical scholarship to a new level. Brenner's work is courageous, insightful, and provocative.''
— Alice L. Laffey, author of An Introduction to the Old Testament: A Feminist Perspective
''Disturbed by the paradox of re-creating biblical points of view through twenty-first century perspectives, Athalya Brenner has given voice—without that pretense—to biblical women. The result is widely and wildly informative, entertaining, audacious, and, yes, academic: a multifaceted pleasure to read.''
— Lillian R. Klein, author of From Deborah to Esther: Sexual Politics in the Hebrew Bible
— Alice L. Laffey, author of An Introduction to the Old Testament: A Feminist Perspective
''Disturbed by the paradox of re-creating biblical points of view through twenty-first century perspectives, Athalya Brenner has given voice—without that pretense—to biblical women. The result is widely and wildly informative, entertaining, audacious, and, yes, academic: a multifaceted pleasure to read.''
— Lillian R. Klein, author of From Deborah to Esther: Sexual Politics in the Hebrew Bible
Table of Contents
-
Preface
- War, Culture, Wives-Mothers From A to Z: We are Adah and Zillah
- I am The Twelfth Sheep: Dinah
- Lust is my Middle Name, I Have no other: Potiphar's wife
- I am the Bird Woman: Zipporah
- I am Rahab, the broad
- The Three of us: Ruth, Naomi, Orpah
- I am the Glow: Ritzpah daughter of Ayah
- A Double Date: We are Tamar and Tamar
- My Sons the Generals: I am Zeruiah sister of David
- I am the Rat: Huldah the prophet
- Love me tender, love me true: I am an anonymous woman from the Song of Songs
- I am the Convener
- Goodbye
Introduction: Prior to Touchdown