Feminist Companion to Exodus to Deuteronomy

Athalya Brenner-Idan is Professor Emerita of the HB\OT Chair at the Universiteit van Amsterdam, The Netherlands; and currently Professor in Biblical Studies at the Department of Hebrew Culture Studies, Tel Aviv University, Israel, and Research Associate at the Biblia Arabica Project there. In addition, she is Extraordinary Professor at the Department of OT/NT, Faculty of Theology, Stellenbosch University, South Africa. Her website is http://athalya-morah-letorah.com.

• Abbreviations/ List of Contributors/ Athalya Brenner/ Introduction/ Part I/ First Revisit: Exodus and Moses/ Suzanne Scholz/ The Complexities of ‘His' Liberation Talk: A Literary Feminist Reading of the Book of Exodus/ Harold C. Washington/ Signifying on Exodus/ Reading Race and Religion in Zora Neale Hurstons's Moses, Man of the Mountain/ Ilona Rashkow/ Oedipus Wrecks: Moses and God's Rod/ Cheryl Kirk-Duggan/ Divine Puppeteer: Yahweh of Exodus/ Part II/ Second Revisit: Miriam/ Phyllis Silverman Kramer/ Miriam/ Helen Leneman/ Miriam Re-Imagined, and Imaginary Women of Exodus in Musical Settings/ Alice Bach/ Dreaming of Miriam's Well/ Irmtraud Fischer/ The Authority of Miriam: A Feminist Rereading of Numbers 12 Prompted by Jewish Interpretation/ Part III/ Third Revisit: Daughters/ Tal Ilan/ The Daughters of Zelophehad and Women's Inheritance: The Biblical Injunction and its Outcome/ Leila Leah Bronner/ Serah and the Exodus: A Midrashic Miracle/ Bibliography/ Index of References/ Index of Authors