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BOOKS

 

Countertraditions in the Bible: A Feminist Approach. Harvard University

Press, 1992. 

 

The Biography of Ancient Israel: National Narratives in the Bible, University of California Press, 2000.

 

Melville’s Bibles. University of California Press, 2008.

 

 

EDITED VOLUME

New Perspectives on Freud's Moses and Monotheism, Co-Editor (with Ruth Ginsburg), Niemeyer, 2006.

 

 

ARTICLES (selected list)

“Beyond Genesis 3,” Hebrew University Studies in Literature and the Arts. 17 (1989): 37-50.

 

“Yocheved Bat-Miriam: The Poetic Strength of a Matronym,”  Gender and Text: Feminist Criticism and Modern Jewish Literature, eds. Naomi B. Sokoloff, Anne Lapidus Lerner, Anita Norich, The Jewish Theologial Seminary of America, 1992,

39-63.

 

“Beyond Genesis 3: The Politics of Maternal Naming,” in Feminist Companion to Genesis, ed. Athalya Brenner, Sheffield Academic Press.

 

Rachel’s Dream of Grandeur,” Out of the Garden: Women Writers on the Bible, eds., Christina Buchmann and Celina Spiegel, Fawcett Columbine, 1994, 27-40.

 

“Imagining the Promised Land: The Spies in the Land of the Giants,” History and Memory 6 (Fall/Winter 1994): 5-23.

 

“The Biography of Ancient Israel: Imagining the Birth of a Nation,”  Comparative Literature 49 (Winter 1997): 24-41.

 

“Job’s Wife,”  Job’s Daughters,”  “Job’s Mother,”  in Women in Scripture: A Dictionary of Named and Unnamed Women in the Hebrew Bible, The Apocryphal/Deuterocanonical Books, and the New Testament, eds. Carol Meyers, Toni Craven, Ross Kraemer, Houghton Mifflin Company, 2000.

 

“The Belly of  the Underworld: The Book of Jonah as Travel Narrative” (in Hebrew). In Wool From the Loom: The Development of Literary Genres in Ancient Literature (Chutim Nitvim), ed. Nathan Wasserman, The Hebrew University Magnes Press, 2002, 13-22.

 

“Imagining the Birth of Ancient Israel: National Metaphors in the Bible,” in Cultures of the Jews: A New History, ed. David Biale, Schocken Book, 2002, 9-42.

 

“The Daughters of Zelophehad,” in The Jewish Political Tradition, Vol. II, eds. Michael Walzer, Menachem Lorberbaum, Noam Zohar, Yale University Press, 2003, 169-173.

 

“Remapping Jonah’s Voyage: Melville’s Moby-Dick and Kitto’s Cyclopedia of Biblical Literature,” Comparative Literature 57 (Spring 2005): 135-157.

 

"Freud, Zipporah, and the Bridegroom of Blood: National Imagination in the Bible." New Perspectives on Freud's Moses and Monotheism, eds. Ruth Ginsburg and Ilana Pardes. Niemeyer, 2006, 149-164.

 

"Job's Leviathan: Between Melville and Alter," Prooftexts  (forthcoming).