About Esther Fuchs
Born 1953. Esther Fuchs is an American biblical scholar and poet.
Esther Fuchs (Pronounced .)
Fuchs is the author of Israeli Mythogynies: Women in Contemporary Hebrew Fiction (1987) and Sexual Politics in the Biblical Narrative (2000). She describes her work as an attempt to "depatriarchalize" the Hebrew Bible.
Selected works Encounters with Israeli authors, 1982 Omanut ha-hitamemut : ʻal ha-ironyah shel Shai ʻAgnon, 1985 Israeli mythogynies : women in contemporary Hebrew fiction, 1987 Sexual politics in the biblical narrative : reading the Hebrew Bible as a woman, 1989 Women and the Holocaust : narrative and representation, 1999 On the cutting edge : the study of women in biblical worlds : essays in honor of Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza, 2003 Feminist theory and the Bible : interrogating the sources, 2016 Jewish feminism : framed and reframed, 2018
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Who is Esther Fuchs?
Israeli Jewish feminist biblical scholar (born 1953)
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Esther Fuchs was born on 26 February 1953 in Tel Aviv.
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Esther Fuchs is a biblical scholar and poet.
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Esther Fuchs is American.
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