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My View: On Becoming a Male Feminist Bible Scholar

By Marc Zvi Brettler

Had someone told me a decade ago that I would be teaching a course on “Women and the Bible,” I would have laughed. My academic training in Bible was quite traditional. The word “gender” never entered the classroom. Yet I have just completed teaching my department’s first-ever Women’s Studies course. I serve on the Brandeis University Women’s Studies Program Committee, I helped to devise a joint masters degree program in Near Eastern and Judaic Studies and Women’s Studies, and I am now part of a committee expanding the Brandeis Women’s Studies program into a full-fledged major. I don’t quite […]

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Footnotes

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Winners of the 1991 Biblical Archaeology Society Publication Awards.

Endnotes

1.

Phyllis Trible, Texts of Terror: Literary-Feminist Readings of Biblical Narratives, Overtures to Biblical Theology 13 (Philadelphia: Fortress, 1984).

2.

Marcia Falk, Love Lyrics from the Bible: A Translation and Literary Study of the Song of Songs (Sheffield: Almond Press, 1982). Much additional material has been anthologized in A Feminist Companion to the Song of Songs, ed. Athalya Brenner (Sheffield Academic Press, 1993).

3.

Mieke Bal, Death and Dissymmetry: The Politics of Coherence in the Book of Judges (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1988); Murder and Difference: Gender, Genre and Scholarship on Sisera’s Death (Bloomington: Indiana Univ. Press, 1988).

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Other books that deal with women throughout the Bible are Alice L. Laffey, An Introduction to the Old Testament: A Feminist Perspective (Philadelphia: Fortress, 1988) and Carol A. Newsom and Sharon H. Ringe, eds. The Women’s Bible Commentary (Louisville: Westminster/John Knox, 1992).

5.

Judith Plaskow, Standing Again at Sinai: Judaism from a Feminist Perspective (San Francisco: Harper San Francisco, 1991).