Writing the Wrongs: Women of the Old Testament Among Biblical Commentators from Philo Through the Reformation

ISBN-13: 9780195137361 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 304 str.

John L. Thompson

Opis

Phyllis Trible's Texts of Terror is a landmark among those studying women of the Bible. Focusing on stories of the maltreatment of women, Trible paved the way for subsequent feminist exegetes who have been very critical of such stories in the Bible, and who see Christianity as an unredeemably patriarchal religion. It is commonly said that these Old Testament stories of rape, murder, torture, and abandonment passed without comment until recent times. Here, Thompson traces and analyzes various Christian interpretations of these bible stories of women. In drawing attention to views other than Texts of Terror, Thompson speaks to Christians who are battling over how the Bible ought to be read today.

Recenzje

Thompson's book is a fascinating window onto the riches of pre-modern commentaries, and is a salutary reminder that worthwhile exegetical insight is by no means confined to - or only to be elicited by - the practitioners of modern-era techniques ... Notable, too, are Thompson's summaries of modern feminist exegesis, which are wide-ranging and show an informed and critical respect for its aims and manifestations.