Feminist Companion to Genesis.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part I: 'AT THE START': EMBLEMS OF GENDER RELATIONS AND HUMAN EXISTENCE -- The Creation Narrative: Genesis 1.1-2.4a -- Genesis: A New Look -- On the Creation of Man and Woman in Genesis 1-3: The History and Reception of the Texts Reconsidered -- Rethinking the Interpretation of Genesis 2.4b-3.24 -- Gender Roles and Genesis 3.16 Revisited -- Are Women Cursed in Genesis 3.16? -- The Patriarchal Stamp of Scripture: The Implications of Structural Analyses for Feminist Hermeneutics -- Beyond Genesis 3: The Politics of Maternal Naming -- Women, Men, Gods, Sex and Power: The Birth of a Biblical Myth -- Part II: EMBLEMS OF MOTHERHOOD -- Female Social Behaviour: Two Descriptive Patterns within the 'Birth of the Hero' Paradigm -- Sarai's Exile: A Gender-Motivated Reading of Genesis 12.10-13.2 -- Sarah and Hagar: Matriarchs and Visionaries -- Reading for the Author's Signature: Genesis 21.1-21 and Luke 15.11-32 as Intertexts -- Structure, Ideology and Politics in the Biblical Betrothal Type-Scene -- Binder, Trickster, Heel and Hairy-Man: Re-reading Genesis 27 as a Trickster Tale Told by a Woman -- Comments on Genesis: Genesis 29 -- Mrs Stanton's Statements... -- Tamar in Pseudo-Philo's Biblical History -- Part III: EMBLEMS OF SEXUAL ILLICITNESS -- Dinah the Daughter -- Breaking Free of the Biblical Frame-Up: Uncovering the Woman in Genesis 39 -- Myth à la lettre: Freud, Mann, Genesis and Rembrandt, and the Story of the Son -- Bibliography.

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