Comedy And Feminist Interpretation Of The Hebrew Bible
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Comedy And Feminist Interpretation Of The Hebrew Bible
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Author : Melissa Jackson
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2012-07-26
Comedy And Feminist Interpretation Of The Hebrew Bible written by Melissa Jackson and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-07-26 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book explores the Hebrew Bible for evidence of comedy and further asks how reading the Hebrew Bible through a comic "lens" might positively inform feminist interpretation. The exploration is conducted with a number of Hebrew Bible narratives, all of which prominently involve female characters.
Comedy And Feminist Interpretation Of The Hebrew Bible
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Author : Melissa Jackson
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2012-07-26
Comedy And Feminist Interpretation Of The Hebrew Bible written by Melissa Jackson and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-07-26 with Religion categories.
Comedy is both relative, linked to a time and culture, and universal, found pervasively across time and culture. The Hebrew Bible contains comedy of this relative, yet universal nature. Melissa A. Jackson engages the Hebrew Bible via a comic reading and brings that reading into conversation with feminist-critical interpretation, in resistance to any lingering stereotype that comedy is fundamentally non-serious or that feminist critique is fundamentally unsmiling. Dividing comic elements into categories of literary devices, psychological/social features, and psychological/social function, Jackson examines the narratives of a number of biblical characters for evidence of these comic elements. The characters include the trickster matriarchs, the women involved in the infancy of Moses, Rahab, Deborah and Jael, Delilah, three of David's wives (Michal, Abigail, Bathsheba), Jezebel, Ruth, and Esther. Nine particularly instructive points of contact between comedy and feminist interpretation emerge: both (1) resist definition, (2) exist amidst a self/other, subject/object dichotomy, (3) emphasise and utilise context, (4) promote creativity, (5) acknowledge the concept of distancing, (6) work towards revelation, (7) are subversive, (8) are concerned with containment and control, and (9) enable survival. The use of comedy as an interpretive lens for the Hebrew Bible is not without difficulties for feminist interpretation. While maintaining an uncomfortable, even painful, awareness of the hold patriarchy retains on the Hebrew Bible, feminist critics can still choose to allow comedy's revelatory, subversive, survivalist nature to do its work revealing, subverting, and surviving.
On Humour And The Comic In The Hebrew Bible
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Author : Yehuda Thomas Radday
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 1990-01-01
On Humour And The Comic In The Hebrew Bible written by Yehuda Thomas Radday and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990-01-01 with Bible categories.
A Feminist Companion To Reading The Bible
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Author : Athalya Brenner
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2001
A Feminist Companion To Reading The Bible written by Athalya Brenner and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Bible categories.
This anthology examines Love's Labours Lost from a variety of perspectives and through a wide range of materials. Selections discuss the play in terms of historical context, dating, and sources; character analysis; comic elements and verbal conceits; evidence of authorship; performance analysis; and feminist interpretations. Alongside theater reviews, production photographs, and critical commentary, the volume also includes essays written by practicing theater artists who have worked on the play. An index by name, literary work, and concept rounds out this valuable resource.
Feminist Interpretation Of The Hebrew Bible In Retrospect
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Author : Susanne Scholz
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013
Feminist Interpretation Of The Hebrew Bible In Retrospect written by Susanne Scholz and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Bible categories.
Feminist Interpretation Of The Hebrew Bible In Retrospect
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Author : Susanne Scholz
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013
Feminist Interpretation Of The Hebrew Bible In Retrospect written by Susanne Scholz and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Bible categories.
Humor Resistance And Jewish Cultural Persistence In The Book Of Revelation
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Author : Sarah Emanuel
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2020-01-09
Humor Resistance And Jewish Cultural Persistence In The Book Of Revelation written by Sarah Emanuel and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-01-09 with Bibles categories.
Positions Revelation within an ancient Jewish context and demonstrates how the author used humor to resist Roman power.
The Dissenting Reader
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Author : Eryll Wynn Davies
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-06-26
The Dissenting Reader written by Eryll Wynn Davies and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06-26 with Social Science categories.
This title was first published in 2003. Few would deny that the Bible is an overwhelmingly patriarchal book that, over the centuries, has exercised considerable influence on the way in which women are perceived in society. From the opening chapters of Genesis, where woman is created to serve as man's "helper", to the pronouncements of Paul concerning the submission of wives to their husbands and the silencing of women in communal worship, the primary emphasis of the Bible is on woman's subordinate status. Feminist biblical critics raise the obvious question: how should women in communities of faith respond to the Bible's largely negative appraisal of women and oppressive patriarchal emphasis? Eryl Davies introduces the wide range of feminist approaches to the Hebrew Bible: from critics who recover neglected perspectives in the biblical tradition and argue that the Bible is not oppressively patriarchal, to others who reject biblical traditions, arguing that they are so immersed in a patriarchal culture that no parts are worth redeeming. Davies suggests that the most promising approach deploys a reader-oriented literary approach to the Hebrew Bible: by focusing on the literary representation of women through plot, dialogue and characterization, some of the subtle ways in which biblical authors sought to reinforce patriarchal values and endorse women's inferior status are highlighted. Davies argues that readers of the Hebrew Bible must be prepared to question and challenge the values and assumptions inherent in the text: they must don the mantle of the "dissenting reader" and apply what feminist biblical critics have termed a "hermeneutic of suspicion" to its content without denouncing the authority of the Bible as a sacred text.
A Womanist Reading Of Hebrew Bible Narratives As The Politics Of Belonging From An Outsider Within
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Author : Vanessa Lovelace
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2024-05-29
A Womanist Reading Of Hebrew Bible Narratives As The Politics Of Belonging From An Outsider Within written by Vanessa Lovelace and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-05-29 with Religion categories.
The U.S. Declaration of Independence of 1776 decreed that all men were created equal and were endowed by their Creator with “certain unalienable Rights.” Yet, U.S.-born free and enslaved Black people were not recognized as citizens with “equal protections under the law” until the passage of the Fourteenth Amendment. Even then, White supremacists impeded the equal rights of Black people as citizens due to their beliefs in the inferiority of Black people and that America was a nation for White people. White supremacists turned to biblical passages to lend divine justification for their views. A Womanist Reading of Hebrew Bible Narratives as the Politics of Belonging from an Outsider Within analyzes select biblical narratives, including Noah’s curse in Genesis 9; Sarah and Hagar in Genesis 16 and 21; Mother in Israel in Judges 5; and Jezebel, Phoenician Princess and Queen of Israel in 1 and 2 Kings. This analysis demonstrates how these narratives were first used by ancient biblical writers to include some and exclude others as members of the nation of Israel and then appropriated by White supremacists in the antebellum era and the early twentieth century to do the same in America. The book analyzes the simultaneously intersecting and interconnecting dynamics among race, gender, class, and sexuality and biblical narratives to construct boundaries between “us versus them,” particularly the politicization of motherhood to deny certain groups’ inclusion.
Are We Amused
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Author : Athalya Brenner-Idan
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2003-11-01
Are We Amused written by Athalya Brenner-Idan and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-11-01 with Religion categories.
Biblical humor about women and gender remains elusive for many readers, for its recognition may imply the realization that it's a cruel and disrespectful humor, ridicule rather than good-natured fun. But viewing humor as social critique, as is largely done in the essays in this volume, with respect to both the texts read and their actual or implied author, may be fun as well as significant for understanding the biblical worlds. As most of the essays show, writing about women is writing about men as well. In other words, it is writing about gender roles. The critique of women, womanhood and femaleness implied by biblical and related texts serves, in equal measure, as a critique of men, manhood and maleness in the texts, of the texts authors, and of the texts' commentators and readers. Contributors include Scott Spencer, Mary Shields, Kathleen O'Connor, Toni Craven, Kathy Williams, Athalya Brenner, Gale Yee, Amy-Jill Levine, and Esther Fuchs.