A Feminist Companion to the Bible the Latter Prophets (The Feminist Companion to the Bible Series, No. 8) PDF
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a Feminist Companion to The Latter Prophets edited by Athaiya Brenner This page intentionally left blank The Feminist Companion to the Bible 8 Editor Athalya Brenner Sheffield Academic Press Copyright © 1995 Sheffield Academic Press Published by Sheffield Academic Press Ltd Mansion House 19 Kingfield Road Sheffield, S11 9AS England Printed on acid-free paper in Great Britain by The Cromwell Press Melksham, Wiltshire British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN 1-85075-515-9 To the memory of Fokkelien van Dijk-Hemmes This page intentionally left blank CONTENTS Abbreviations 11 ATHALYA BRENNER Preface 13 ATHALYA BRENNER Introduction 21 Part I THE CASE OF 'HOSEA' CAROLE R. FONTAINE Hosea 40 CAROLE R. FONTAINE A Response to 'Hosea' 60 ALICE A. KEEFE The Female Body, the Body Politic and the Land: A Sociopolitical Reading of Hosea 1-2 70 YVONNE SHERWOOD Boxing Comer: Controlling the Deviant Woman in Hosea 1-3 101 NAOMI GRAETZ God is to Israel as Husband is to Wife: The Metaphoric Battering of Hosea's Wife 126 8 A Feminist Companion to the Latter Prophets FRANCIS LANDY Fantasy and the Displacement of Pleasure: Hosea 2.4-17 146 JOHN GOLDINGAY Hosea 1-3, Genesis 1-4 and Masculist Interpretation 161 MAYER I. GRUBER Marital Fidelity and Intimacy: A View from Hosea 4 MARGARET S. ODELL I Will Destroy Your Mother: The Obliteration of A Cultic Role in Hosea 4.4-6 180 HELEN SCHUNGEL-STRAUMANN God as Mother in Hosea 11 194 MARIE-THERES WACKER Traces of the Goddess in the Book of Hosea 219 Part II ON THE PORNOPROPHETICS OF SEXUAL VIOLENCE FOKKELIEN VAN DIJK-HEMMES The Metaphorization of Woman in Prophetic Speech: An Analysis of Ezekiel 23 244 ATHALYA BRENNER On Prophetic Propaganda and the Politics of 'Love': The Case of Jeremiah 256 ROBERT P. CARROLL Desire under the Terebinths: On Pornographic Representation in the Prophets—A Response 275 PAMELA GORDON AND HAROLD c. WASHINGTON Rape as a Military Metaphor in the Hebrew Bible 308 Contents 9 F. RACHEL MAGDALENE Ancient Near Eastern Treaty-Curses and the Ultimate Texts of Terror: A Study of the Language of Divine Sexual Abuse in the Prophetic Corpus 326 Part III SHOULD WE TRUST THE GOD OF THE PROPHETS? NANCY R. BOWEN Can God be Trusted? Confronting the Deceptive God 354 Bibliography 366
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