Feminist Revision and the Bible
The Unwritten Volume
Wiley · Print & ebook · March 2, 1993
What happens when women writers re-imagine culture?
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- Who it’s for
- Alicia Suskin Ostriker examines women writers’ complex, critical engagements with biblical texts and tradition.
- Themes
- Feminist biblical interpretation, Biblical misogyny, Women writers and scripture
- Genres
- Feminist Lit Crit, Jewish Theology, Bible Criticism & Interpretation
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What happens when women writers re-imagine culture? How do feminists need that ur-text of patriarchy, the Bible? Unwritten volume: Re-thinking teh Bible attempts to re-think 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.
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The author proposes that women writers relate to the Bible in complex ways, which both critique biblical misogyny and stem directly from elements of transgressive writing within scripture iteself. Ultimately Ostriker suggests that feminist reinterpretations of scripture are the inevitable consequence of spiritual values which ask us to turn from institutions to the meaning of the original revelation.
Women Writers and Scripture
Alicia Suskin Ostriker examines women writers’ complex, critical engagements with biblical texts and tradition.
Come here for
- Poetic readings of biblical texts by nineteenth- and twentieth-century women writers
- An account of how these writers critique biblical misogyny
Expect
- Reconsidered assumptions about feminism and the Bible
- A proposal linking scriptural reinterpretation to spiritual values
Where it sits
| Feminist Lit Crit | 38% |
|---|---|
| Jewish Theology | 36% |
| Bible Criticism & Interpretation | 34% |
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Publisher categories
- Old Testament Interpretation
- Authors
- Alicia Suskin Ostriker
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- March 2, 1993
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Feminist biblical interpretation · Biblical misogyny · Women writers and scripture
- Reading lane
- Old Testament Interpretation