1st Edition
The Dissenting Reader Feminist Approaches to the Hebrew Bible
By Eryll Wynn Davies
Copyright 2003
152 Pages
by
Routledge
150 Pages
by
Routledge
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This title was first published in 2003. Few would deny that the Bible is an overwhelmingly patriarchal book that, over the centuries, has exercised considerable influence on the way in which women are perceived in society. From the opening chapters of Genesis, where woman is created to serve as man's "helper", to the pronouncements of Paul concerning the submission of wives to their husbands and... Read more
Chapter 1: The Patriarchal Bible; Chapter 2: Feminist Models of Reading; Chapter 3: Feminist Criticism and Reader-response Criticism; Chapter 4: Unmasking the Text’s Ideology; Chapter 5: Ideological Critique; Chapter 6: Conclusion
Biography
Eryll Wynn Davies
