Women Who Wrestled with God : Biblical Stories of Israel's Beginning EPUB

Israels story as a people of God is a tale of women, men, and their children. Moving past a patriarchal reading of the Bible, Fischer presents a new interpretation of neglected biblical narratives. From a gender-balanced perspective, she reveals the political dimension and narrative continuation of ancestral stories in the Book of Ruth.Women Who Wrestled with Goddemonstrates the significance of women in religious history in a way that will inspire as well as inform.

Chapters are: The Fathers and the Beginnings of the People An Introduction to Israels Ancestors, Sarah, Hagar, and Abraham: Scenes From a Marriage Under the Promise, Rebecca: A Strong Woman With a Colorless Husband, Rachel and Leah: The Founders of the House of Israel, Dark Sides of the Family Chronicle, Subversive Women at the Beginnings of the People in Egypt, Naomi and Ruth: The Unconventional Women Ancestors of the Royal House of David, and Women Who Wrestled with God.

Irmtraud Fischer is professor of Old Testament and womens studies (theology) at the University of Bonn, as well as chair of Old Testament studies at the University of Graz, Austria. President of the European Society for Womens Research in Theology, Fischer was given the 2003 Bad Herrenalber Akademie Preis.