I Am...
Biblical Women Tell Their Own Stories
- Biblical Studies & Commentaries
- Women
- Publisher: Fortress Press (Augsburg Fortress)
- Published: 2004
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Publisher's Description
Athalya Brenner presents fictionalized "autobiographies" of a dozen women and women groups in the Hebrew Bible, and also lets them share a conversation session. This allows her to include how these women have been interpreted — not only in the Bible itself, but also in Jewish and Christian traditions and by modern commentators. The result is a thoroughly engaging and insightful look at women, from a leading biblical interpreter who has a very creative edge to all her work.
Endorsements (2)
“''Brenner gives voice to many of the otherwise almost-voiceless female characters of the Hebrew Bible, and she allows them to speak in their own voices.... The book draws on Brenner's own impressive expertise as well as a broad range of traditional scholarship. To these she adds imagination and creativity and by so doing takes feminist biblical scholarship to a new level. Brenner's work is courageous, insightful, and provocative.''”
“''Disturbed by the paradox of re-creating biblical points of view through twenty-first century perspectives, Athalya Brenner has given voice—without that pretense—to biblical women. The result is widely and wildly informative, entertaining, audacious, and, yes, academic: a multifaceted pleasure to read.''”
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