Feminist Perspectives On Biblical Scholarship

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Contents: 1. American Women and the Bible: The Nature of Woman as a Hermeneutical Issue, by Carolyn De Swarte Gifford; 2. Feminist Insights and the Question of Method, by T. Drorah Setel; 3. Remembering the Past in Creating the Future: Historical-Critical Scholarship and Feminist Biblical Interpretation, by Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza; 4. Early Christian Women and Their Cultural Context: Issues of Method in Historical Reconstruction, by Bernadette J. Brooten; 5. The Feminist and the Bible: Hermeneutical Alternatives, by Carolyn Ostek; 6. His Story versus Her Story: Male Genealogy and Female Strategy in the Jacob Cycle, by Nelly Furman; 7. The Literary Characterization of Mothers and Sexual Politics in the Hebrew Bible, by Esther Fuchs; 8. Who is Hiding the Truth? Deceptive Women and the Biblical Androcentrism, by Esther Fuchs.