I am ... Biblical women tell their own stories, Athalya Brenner : book review

Extracted from text ... Brenner, Athalya 2005. I am ... Biblical women tell their own stories. Minneapolis: Fortress Press. 228 pages. Paperback. ISBN 0-8006-3665-1. This book appeared like a breath of fresh air in the midst of a debate within feminist biblical scholarship regarding the usefulness o...

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Main Author: Klopper, Frances (Author)
Format: Electronic Review
Language:English
Check availability: HBZ Gateway
Interlibrary Loan:Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany)
Published: 2006
In: Old Testament essays
Year: 2006, Volume: 19, Issue: 1, Pages: 340-342
Further subjects:B Book review
Online Access: Volltext (kostenfrei)
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Summary:Extracted from text ... Brenner, Athalya 2005. I am ... Biblical women tell their own stories. Minneapolis: Fortress Press. 228 pages. Paperback. ISBN 0-8006-3665-1. This book appeared like a breath of fresh air in the midst of a debate within feminist biblical scholarship regarding the usefulness of traditional historical criticism with its objective to understand the Bible 'as it was'. In this book Brenner suspends this curiosity of the elusive past and rereads the text by focussing on the gaps - what is not in the text - to illustrate how readers in any case reconstruct the text through personal imagination according to their ..
ISSN:2312-3621
Contains:Enthalten in: Old Testament essays
Persistent identifiers:HDL: 10520/EJC85753