A Feminist Companion to Exodus to Deuteronomy

by Continuum Intl Pub Group

• ISBN13: 9781841270791
• ISBN10: 1841270792
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-12-01
• Publisher: Sheffield Academic Pr

Summary

The studies in this collection, reflecting recent developments in feminist exegesis in Europe and the United States, comprise three 'revisits': the first, to Exodus and Moses, includes Susanne Scholz on a literary feminist reading of Exodus, Harold Washington on Exodus and Zora Neale Hurston's 'Moses, Man of the Mountain', Ilona Rashkow on 'Oedipus Wreckes: Moses and God's Rod', and 'Divine Puppeteer: Yahweh of Exodus' by Cheryl Kirk-Duggan. The second revisit, to Miriam, comprises 'Miriam' by Phyllis Silverman Kramer, 'Miriam Re-Imagined, and Imaginary Women of Exodus in Musical Settings' by Helen Leneman, Alice Bach, 'Dreaming of Miriam's Well' and Irmtraud Fischer on 'The Authority of Miriam'. The third revisit is to Daughters, where Tal Ilan writes on the daughters of Zelophehad and Leila Bronner on' Serah and the Exodus'.

Table of Contents

Abbreviations	9	(2)
List of Contributors	11	(2)
Athalya Brenner	13	(7)
Introduction
Part I FIRST REVISIT: EXODUS AND MOSES
The Complexities of `His' Liberation Talk: A Literary Feminist Reading of the Book of Exodus	20	(21)
Susanne Scholz
Signifying on Exodus: Reading Race and Culture in Zora Neale Hurston's Moses, Man of the Mountain	41	(18)
Harold C. Washington
Odedipus Wrecks: Moses and God's Rod	59	(16)
Ilona Rashkow
Divine Puppeteer: Yahweh of Exodus	75	(29)
Cheryl Kirk-Duggan
Part II SECOND REVISIT: MIRIAM
Miriam	104	(30)
Phyllis Silverman Kramer
Miriam Re-Imagined, and Imaginary Women of Exodus in Musical Settings	134	(17)
Helen Leneman
Dreaming of Miriam's Well	151	(8)
Alice Bach
The Authority of Miriam: A Feminist Rereading of Numbers 12 Prompted by Jewish Interpretation	159	(17)
Irmtraud Fischer
Part III THIRD REVISIT: DAUGHTERS
The Daughters of Zelophehad and Women's Inheritance: The Biblical Injunction and Its Outcome	176	(11)
Tal Ilan
Serah and the Exodus: A Midrashic Miracle	187	(12)
Leila Leah Bronner
Bibliography	199	(11)
Index of References	210	(6)
Index of Authors	216