Feminist Companion to the Latter Prophets

Feminist criticism on the Bible is at least a century old. But only in the last decade or two has the force and radicality of a feminist critique begun to impact on professional biblical scholarship. By now it is being recognized that serious biblical study is impossible without raising questions about the role of women in the biblical texts, their place in the ancient societies that produced the Bible, and the ways an androcentric culture has determined the way that women are presented in this literature. Athalya Brenner, herself a leading feminist critic of the Hebrew Bible, has gathered together in several volumes a unique anthology of feminist writing about biblical texts, both Old and New Testaments. In this collection will be found a rich resource for reclaiming the female heritage in these classic texts, for analysing the social structures evident in them, for exposing their sexual-textual politics, for re-evaluating female religiosity, and for rewriting biblical interpretation. Previously published volumes in this series focus on the books of Genesis, Exodus-Deuteronomy, Judges, Ruth, Samuel-Kings and Song of Songs. Book jacket.Brenner, Athalya is the author of 'Feminist Companion to the Latter Prophets' with ISBN 9781850755159 and ISBN 1850755159.