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Ruth and Esther [electronic resource] / edited by Athalya Brenner.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Feminist companion to the Bible. Second series ; ; 3.Publication details: Sheffield : Sheffield Academic Press, c1999.Description: 1 online resource (271 p.)ISBN:
  • 9780567475121 (electronic bk.)
  • 0567475123 (electronic bk.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Ruth and Esther.DDC classification:
  • 222.3506 22
LOC classification:
  • BS1315.2 .R87 1999eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction / Athalya Brenner -- I. Ruth -- A. Aspects of the Ruth scroll -- The Book of Ruth : a 'feminist' commentary to the Torah? / Irmtraud Fischer -- Ruth, the model emigr�ee : mourning and the symbolic politics of immigration / Bonnie Honig -- Facing the other : Ruth-the-cat in medieval Jewish illuminations / Carole R. Fontaine -- Ruth and Naomi : two Biblical figures revived among rural women in germany / dr Ursula Silber -- 'Women of the neighborhood' (Ruth 4.17) : informal female networks in ancient Israel / Carol Meyers -- B. Ruth papers, Orpah papers : papers delivered at the 'Semiotics and exegesis' Session, American Society of Biblical Literature, November, 1997 -- The sign of Orpah : reading Ruth through native eyes / Laura E. Donaldson -- The unpublished letters of Orpah to Ruth / Musa W. Dube -- A son is born to naomi : a harvest for Israel / Judith E. McKinlay -- Ruth as foreign worker and the politics of exogamy / Athalya Brenner -- Culture, ethics and identity in reading Ruth : a response to Donaldson, Dube, McKinlay and Brenner / Roland Boer -- II. Ruth and Esther : mothers and daughters -- The invisible relationship made visible : Biblical mothers and daughters / Leila Leah Bronner -- Black mother women and daughters : signifying female-divine relationships in the Hebrew Bible and African-American mother-daughter short stories / Cheryl A. Kirk-Duggan -- III. Esther -- Lots of writing / Mieke Bal -- Esther : a new interpretation of the Joseph story in the fight against anti-Semitism and sexism / Klara Butting.
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Introduction / Athalya Brenner -- I. Ruth -- A. Aspects of the Ruth scroll -- The Book of Ruth : a 'feminist' commentary to the Torah? / Irmtraud Fischer -- Ruth, the model emigr�ee : mourning and the symbolic politics of immigration / Bonnie Honig -- Facing the other : Ruth-the-cat in medieval Jewish illuminations / Carole R. Fontaine -- Ruth and Naomi : two Biblical figures revived among rural women in germany / dr Ursula Silber -- 'Women of the neighborhood' (Ruth 4.17) : informal female networks in ancient Israel / Carol Meyers -- B. Ruth papers, Orpah papers : papers delivered at the 'Semiotics and exegesis' Session, American Society of Biblical Literature, November, 1997 -- The sign of Orpah : reading Ruth through native eyes / Laura E. Donaldson -- The unpublished letters of Orpah to Ruth / Musa W. Dube -- A son is born to naomi : a harvest for Israel / Judith E. McKinlay -- Ruth as foreign worker and the politics of exogamy / Athalya Brenner -- Culture, ethics and identity in reading Ruth : a response to Donaldson, Dube, McKinlay and Brenner / Roland Boer -- II. Ruth and Esther : mothers and daughters -- The invisible relationship made visible : Biblical mothers and daughters / Leila Leah Bronner -- Black mother women and daughters : signifying female-divine relationships in the Hebrew Bible and African-American mother-daughter short stories / Cheryl A. Kirk-Duggan -- III. Esther -- Lots of writing / Mieke Bal -- Esther : a new interpretation of the Joseph story in the fight against anti-Semitism and sexism / Klara Butting.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-262) and indexes.

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