Feminist Companion to Wisdom Literature

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 / Athalya BrennerIntroductionPart IWomen and Wisdom: Social Roles and Literary Figurations / Carole R. FontaineThe Social Roles of Women in the World of Wisdom / Athalya BrennerSome Observations on the Figurations of Woman in Wisdom Literature / Silvia SchroerWise and Counselling Women in Ancient Israel: Literary and Historical Ideals of the Personified hokmâ /Schulamit VallerWho is eset hayil in Rabbinic Literature?Part IIWisdom and Otherness: The Case of the Issâ Zârâ / Mieke Heijerman Who Would Blame Her? The 'Strange' Woman of Proverbs / Gale A. Yee'I Have Perfumed My Bed with Myrrh': The Foreign Woman (issâ zârâ) in Proverbs 1-9 / Gale A. YeeThe Socio-Literary Production of the 'Foreign Woman' in Proverbs / Claudia V. CampWise and Strange: An Interpretation of the Female Imagery in Proverbs in Light of Trickster Mythology / Harold C. WashingtonThe Strange Woman of Proverbs 1-9 and Post-Exilic Judaean SocietyPart IIIOn the Book of Job / Lillian R. KleinJob and the Womb: Text about Men, Subtext about Women / Ellen van WoldeThe Development of Job: Mrs Job as Catalyst / Lyn M. BechtelA Feminist Approach to the Book of JobBibliography