Synopses & Reviews
This volume is the first in a series which provides a fundamental resource for feminist biblical scholarship, containing a comprehensive selection of essays, both reprinted and specially written for the series, by leading feminist scholars. >
Synopsis
Provides feminist approaches to the Song of Songs from leading scholars of the Hebrew Bible and feminist hermeneutics.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements/ Abbreviations/
Athalya Brenner/ On Reading the Hebrew Bible as a Feminist Woman: Introduction to the Series/
Athalya Brenner/ On Feminist Criticism of the Song of Songs/ Part I/ Voices From The Past/
Elizabeth Cady Stanton/ The Women's Movement and the Bible/
G. D. Ginsburg/ The Importance of the Book/
Elizabeth Cady Stanton/ The Song of Solomon/ Part II/ Female Authorship and Female Culture/
S.D. Goitein/ The Song of Songs: A Female Composition/
Jonneke Bekkenkamp and Fokkelien Van Dijk/ The Canon of the Old Testament and Wonen's Cultural Tradtions/
Athalya Brenner/ Women Poets and Authors/ Part III/ Intertextual Connections and the Critique of Patriarchy/
Phyllis Trible/ Love's Lyrics Redeemed/
Marvin H.Pope/ The Song of Songs and Women's Liberation: An ‘Outsider's' Critique/
Francis Landy/ Two Versions of Paradise/
T. Drorah Setel/ Prophets and Pornography: Female Sexual Imagery in Hosea/
Fokkelien Van Dijk-Hemmes/ The Imagination of Power and the Power of Imagination/ Part IV/ Structure and Discourse/
M. Deckers/ The Structure of the Song of Songs and the Centrality of nepeš/
Carol Meyers/ Gender Imagery in the Song of Songs/ Part V/ Gender Interpretation and the Case of the WASFS/
Richard N. Soulen/ The
wasfs of Song of Songs and the Hermeneutic/
Marica Falk/ The
wasf/
Athalya Brenner/ ‘Come back, come back to the Shulammite' (Song of Songs 7.1-10): A parody of the
wasf Genre/ Part VI/ In Retrospect/
Francis Landy/ Mishneh Torah: A Response to Myself and Phyllis Trible/
J. William Whedbee/ Paradox and Parody in the Song of Solomon: Towards a Cosmic Reading of the Most Sublime Song/
Athalya Brenner/ Afterword/ Bibliography