On gendering texts : : female and male voices in the Hebrew Bible / / Athalya Brenner-Idan, Fokkelien van Dijk Hemmes.

• Superior document: Biblical Interpretation
• VerfasserIn: Brenner-Idan, Athalya,; Dijk Hemmes, Fokkelien van,
• TeilnehmendeR: Dijk Hemmes, Fokkelien van,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden : : Brill,, [1996]
• Year of Publication: 1996
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Biblical Interpretation
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (225 pages)

Table of Contents

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- I Traces of Women's Texts in the Hebrew Bible -- 1. Methodological Considerations -- A. The Importance of the Search for Female Authors -- B. The Model of "Women's Culture" -- C. Goitein's Method -- 2. Victory Songs and Mockery Songs -- A. Victory Songs -- The Song in Honour of Saul and David -- The Dance of Jephthah's Daughter -- The Song of Miriam -- The Song of Deborah -- B. Mockery Songs -- 3. Wisdom and Warning Discourse -- A. Wisdom Speeches -- The Wise Women of Tekoah and Abel -- Abigail -- Lady Wisdom -- B. Warning Speeches -- The Mother of Lemuel -- The I Persona in Proverbs 7 -- 4. Prophecy and Soothsaying -- A. Prophecy -- Huldah and Deborah -- Miriam -- B. Soothsaying -- 5. Love Songs and Songs of Harlots -- A. Love Songs -- B. Songs of Harlots -- 6. Laments and Rituals of Lament -- A. Laments -- Lady Jerusalem in Lamentations -- B. Rituals of Lament -- 7. Vows and Prayers -- A Remark (By Way of an Introduction) -- A. Vows -- B. Prayers -- 8. Birth Songs and Naming Speeches -- A. Birth Songs -- B. Naming Speeches -- 9. Final Considerations -- II Proverbs 1-9: An F Voice? -- The "Female Rebuker" Figure -- The Frame of Proverbs: F Personas and Voices, M Discourse? -- Father's Instruction and Mother's Instruction in Proverbs 1-9 -- The "Female Onlooker" Figure -- The Other Woman -- Woman as Other -- The F Wisdom Figure -- Chapter 31 - A Mother's Instruction to Son, and to Daughter -- III M Text Authority in Biblical Love Lyrics: The Case of Qoheleth 3.1-9 and Its Textual Relatives -- Qoheleth 3.1-9: A Framed Male Love Lyric? -- Qoheleth 3.1-9: A Poem within a Frame -- The Language of the Frame -- The Language of the Poem: Verses 2-8 -- The Poem out of Context: Structure and Sense -- Verse 5: The Central Stanza.

Verse 5a-b: The "Sexual" Interpretation -- Stones, Sexuality, and Gender Relations -- The Poem in the Light of Verse 5 -- Qoheleth 3.2-8: An M Poem of Desire -- 3.2-8: A Single Act of Composition or the Product of a Gradual Process? -- Another Instance of Borrowing from Conventions of Love Poetry in Qpheleth? -- Quoting and Framing: Back to Verses 1 and 9 -- Proverbs 30.18-19, 20 -- Samson's Riddles -- Other Instances of M Love Poetry: Some Notes -- In Conclusion -- IV Divine Love and Prophetic Pornography -- The Metaphorization of Woman in Prophetic Speech: An Analysis of Ezekiel 23 -- The Marriage Metaphor in Hosea -- Features and Functions of Pornography -- Ohala's and Oholibah's Perversion -- M and F Readerly Responses -- On "Jeremiah" and the Poetics of (Prophetic?) Pornography -- The Husband-Wife Metaphor: A Propaganda Vehicle -- General Definitions of Pornography and Biblical Pornography -- Feminist Definitions of Pornography and Jeremian Pornography -- Story of O -- The Story of O and Jeremian Pornography -- In Conclusion -- Afterword -- References and Additional Bibliography -- Index of Ancient Sources -- 1. Biblical Passages Cited -- 2. Others.