{"product_id":"countertraditions-in-the-bible-9780674175457","title":"Countertraditions in the Bible","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this eye-opening book, llana Pardes explores the tense dialogue between dominant patriarchal discourses of the Bible and counter female voices.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book marks the much needed next step in feminist biblical criticism. -- Mieke Bal\u003cbr\u003eIlana Pardes planes the Bible’s surface to expose the lineaments that run against the grain, challenging the pat assumptions of our predecessors. Pardes focuses on the unconventional, the irregular, in Biblical literature and points up instances in which a female voice in permitted its say—until the masculine voice resumes. -- Edward L. Greenstein * Jerusalem Report *\u003cbr\u003eDistinguishing herself from feminist Biblical scholars who regard the Bible as a wholly patriarchal work, Pardes sees the text itself as challenging gender distinctions… Her arguments are buttressed with an impressive command of Biblical scholarship and an awareness of the sensitive, nuanced readings to be found in Rabbinic literature. -- Yehudah Mirsky * Forward *\u003cbr\u003eThis lively and stimulating book probes the words and the silences of such figures as Eve, Rachel, and Zipporah, using their stories in turn to test a variety of contemporary feminist approaches to the Bible… [An] original blend of text history, feminist theory, and literary analysis. -- David Damrosch\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. Preliminary Excavations   Miriam and Her Brothers   2. Creation according to Eve   Elizabeth Cady Stanton   Simone de Beauvoir and Kate Millett   Phyllis Trible   Esther Fuchs   Mieke Bal   The Book of J   Conclusion   3. Beyond Genesis 3: The Politics of Maternal Naming   Maternal Naming-Speeches    Uprising   Reversal: Dialogic Naming   Falling Again   Creative Hierarchies   When P Expands on Genesis I   P versus J   Mixed Languages   4. Rachel's Dream: The Female Subplot   The Young Barren One versus The Elder Cowife   Exchanging Plots   Joining Forces   Rachel's Death   Difference in Development   Dreams and Reality   5. Zipporah and the Struggle for Deliverance   Female Saviors   Back to the Ark   The Bridgeroom of Blood   Textual Traces   The Egyptian Connection   The Politics of Transition   Longings   Eruption   6. The Book of Ruth: Idyllic Revisionism   The Plot of Female Bonding   The Doubling of the Female Subject   Estrangement   A Midrashic Parallel    7. \" I Am a Wall, and my Breast like Towers\": The Song of Songs and the Question of Canonization   The (Im)purity of the Songs   Eros   Constructions of Gender   Refraction Revisited   Dreams and Walls   The Changing of the Guard   The Keepers of the Torah   8. Conclusion   Job's Wife   Beyond Piety   Fragment Names   Open House   Notes   Bibliography   Index","brand":"Harvard University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49917762306391,"sku":"9780674175457","price":27.16,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780674175457.jpg?v=1738449095","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/countertraditions-in-the-bible-9780674175457","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}