Women Who Wrestled with God: Biblical Stories of Israel's by Irmtraud Fischer,Linda M. Maloney
By Irmtraud Fischer,Linda M. Maloney
Israel's tale as a humans of God is a story of ladies, males, and their youngsters. relocating prior a patriarchal examining of the Bible, Fischer offers a brand new interpretation of overlooked biblical narratives. From a gender-balanced point of view, she unearths the political size and narrative continuation of ancestral tales within the booklet of Ruth. Women Who Wrestled with God demonstrates the importance of girls in non secular heritage in a fashion that might motivate in addition to inform.
Chapters are: The 'Fathers' and the Beginnings of the folks - An creation to Israel's Ancestor's, - - Sarah, Hagar, and Abraham: Scenes From a wedding lower than the Promise, - - Rebecca: a powerful lady With a drab Husband, - - Rachel and Leah: The Founders of the home of Israel, - - darkish facets of the kinfolk Chronicle, - - Subversive ladies on the Beginnings of the folks in Egypt, - - Naomi and Ruth: the radical girls Ancestors of the Royal condominium of David, - and - girls Who Wrestled with God. -
Irmtraud Fischer is professor of outdated testomony and women's reports (theology) on the college of Bonn, in addition to chair of previous testomony reports on the collage of Graz, Austria. President of the eu Society for Women's examine in Theology, Fischer used to be given the 2003 undesirable Herrenalber Akademie Preis.
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