Out of the garden : women writers on the Bible

Book 1994

"This is the first collection of essays in which women read and respond to the Bible out of pleasure and curiosity--reclaiming the Bible for women and showing readers that the Bible is a source we can return to again and again. Drawing on their own epxeriences and interests, Louise Erdrich, Cynthia Ozick, Fay Weldon, Phyllis Trible, Rebecca Goldstein, June Jordan, Ursula Le Guin, and twenty-one other writers boldly imaginatively--and sometimes re...

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ISBN:

9780449906927
0449906922

Edition:

First edition

Description:

xiv, 351 pages ; 24 cm

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 334-344)

Contents:

A meditation on Eve / B.G. Harrison
Looking back at Lot's wife / R. Goldstein
Rebekah and Isaac : a marriage made in heaven / N. Rosen
Rachel's dream of grandeur / I. Pardes
The nursing father / A. Ostriker
In search of Pharaoh's daughter / P.J. Williams
Samson and his women / F. Weldon
Ruth and Naomi, David and Jonathan : one love / J. Jordan
Hannah and Elkanah : Torah as the matrix for feminism / C. Ozick
Reflections on Hannah's prayer / M. Falk
Infant piety and the infant Samuel / M.A. Doody
The psychopathology of King Saul / D. Levinson
The judgment of women / A.C. Dailey
In and out of the fold : wisdom, danger, and glamour in the tale of the Queen of Sheba / M. Warner
The odd couple : Elijah and Jezebel / P. Trible
Chosen women / R.M. Brownstein
The world remade : the book of Esther / C. Spiegel
Job: He's a clown / E. Swados
The paradox of the Psalms / K. Norris
The preacher / L. Erdrich
The women in the balcony : on rereading the Song of Songs / D. Merkin
The poetry of Isaiah / A. Clampitt
The wind of judgment and the wind of burning : the holy one of Isaiah / C. Büchmann
Burning the book of Lamentations / N. Seidman
In the belly of the whale / P. Hampl
Prophecy and poetry / A. Goodman
Our dream of the good God / L. Segal
She unnames them / U.K. Le Guin

LCCN:

93050576

Control Number:

53550

Other Authors:

Büchmann, Christina
Spiegel, Celina

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