Athalya Brenner

Exodus and Deuteronomy

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“10. The Birth, Early Life, and Commission of Moses: A Reading from Post-Handover Hong Kong Sonia Kwok Wong 11. Miriam and Me Naomi Graetz 12. Imaging Moses and Miriam Re-Imaged: Through the Empathic Looking Glass of a Singaporean Peranakan Woman Angeline M. G. Song 13. What Would Moses Do? On Applying the Test of a False Prophet to the Current Climate Crisis Joseph Ryan Kelly Part Three Law 14. The Decalogue—Am I an Addressee?”

From Deborah to Esther

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“How are biblical female figures imagined as coping with social constraints? How do they manage in a male-oriented society and through the lens of male authorship? What are the creative, at times heart-rending, means they are described as bringing to their struggle for survival, and at times for joy and fulfillment? Klein discusses such issues and strategies in a balanced and informative manner. Go places with her...fresh perceptions and insights will be your reward.”

Lady Parts

Women

“Female sexual bodies and reproductive organs are, literally, a basic requirement for societal survival. And yet, and especially so in patriarchal societies such as the Bible's and also (regrettably still) ours in the West, those bodies, those organs, are not directly spoken about and are kept silent by and in the normative culture. In this book such body parts and their biblical owners are endowed with voices, dignity, and agency. The stories 'they tell are imaginative and at times fanciful, but always poignant and touching. Thus hidden, silent female body parts become whole, living women. Read, laugh, and cry in equal measure. Be empowered; enjoy.”