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Book Synopsis
Extends the feminist examination of western literature to the founding of patriarchal culture, the Bible. The book re-thinks certain customary assumptions about feminism and about the Bible, in the light of poetic "readings" of biblical texts by 19th- and 20th-century women writers.

Trade Review
" Highly Recommended". Cross Currents

"An essentially optimistic, as well as delightfully iconoclastic, reading of scripture." Church Times



Table of Contents
Introduction.

1. Out of My Sight.

2. A Word made Flesh.

3. The Lilith Poems.

4. An Interview with Alicia Ostriker.

Bibliography.

Index.

Feminist Revision and the Bible

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      Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
      Publication Date: 17/12/1992
      ISBN13: 9780631187981, 978-0631187981
      ISBN10: 0631187987
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      Criticism and exegesis of sacred texts Religion and beliefs

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Extends the feminist examination of western literature to the founding of patriarchal culture, the Bible. The book re-thinks certain customary assumptions about feminism and about the Bible, in the light of poetic "readings" of biblical texts by 19th- and 20th-century women writers.

      Trade Review
      " Highly Recommended". Cross Currents

      "An essentially optimistic, as well as delightfully iconoclastic, reading of scripture." Church Times



      Table of Contents
      Introduction.

      1. Out of My Sight.

      2. A Word made Flesh.

      3. The Lilith Poems.

      4. An Interview with Alicia Ostriker.

      Bibliography.

      Index.

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