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' ...a most interesting, stimulating and highly provocative book. ' R.P. Carroll, SOTS , 1994. ' ...it does offer a useful partial strategy...their text remains valuable...it offers a powerful model for... ' Laura Levitt, Journal of Ecumenical Studies , 1994. ' The authors maintain separate identities...the writing is lucid and the approach sophisticated, and there is a lot of fine exegesis. ' PRD, Journal for the Study of the Old Testament , 1995. 'On Gendering Texts raises many questions and objections, but it is an eye-opener and a way-opener. Reading this book makes reading itself different. Any biblical exegete who takes his/her craft seriously will benefit from it. ' Arian Verheij, Bibliotheca Orientalis , 1994. ' This is a valuable addition to biblical studies from a feminist point of view, a stimulating corrective to traditional reading with a male-dominated and filtered viewpoint. ' Leona Glidden Running, Andrews University Seminary Studies . ' Die Studie stellt aufgrund ihres genderspezifischen Ansatzes einen wichtigen Beitrag zur rezeptionsorientierten Exegese dar. ' C. Maier, Zeitschrift fur die Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft .

'.. .a most interesting, stimulating and highly provocative book.'<br>R.P. Carroll, SOTS, 1994.<br>'.. .it does offer a useful partial strategy...their text remains valuable...it offers a powerful model for...'<br>Laura Levitt, Journal of Ecumenical Studies, 1994.<br>' The authors maintain separate identities...the writing is lucid and the approach sophisticated, and there is a lot of fine exegesis.'<br>PRD, Journal for the Study of the Old Testament, 1995.<br>'On Gendering Texts raises many questions and objections, but it is an eye-opener and a way-opener. Reading this book makes reading itself different. Any biblical exegete who takes his/her craft seriously will benefit from it.'<br>Arian Verheij, Bibliotheca Orientalis, 1994.<br>' This is a valuable addition to biblical studies from a feminist point of view, a stimulating corrective to traditional reading with a male-dominated and filtered viewpoint.'<br>Leona Glidden Running, Andrews University Seminary Studies.<br>' Die Studie stellt aufgrund ihres genderspezifischen Ansatzes einen wichtigen Beitrag zur rezeptionsorientierten Exegese dar.'<br>C. Maier, Zeitschrift f]r die Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft.<br>

'...a most interesting, stimulating and highly provocative book.' R.P. Carroll, SOTS, 1994. '...it does offer a useful partial strategy...their text remains valuable...it offers a powerful model for...' Laura Levitt, Journal of Ecumenical Studies, 1994. 'The authors maintain separate identities...the writing is lucid and the approach sophisticated, and there is a lot of fine exegesis.' PRD, Journal for the Study of the Old Testament, 1995. 'On Gendering Texts raises many questions and objections, but it is an eye-opener and a way-opener. Reading this book makes reading itself different. Any biblical exegete who takes his/her craft seriously will benefit from it.' Arian Verheij, Bibliotheca Orientalis, 1994. 'This is a valuable addition to biblical studies from a feminist point of view, a stimulating corrective to traditional reading with a male-dominated and filtered viewpoint.' Leona Glidden Running, Andrews University Seminary Studies. 'Die Studie stellt aufgrund ihres genderspezifischen Ansatzes einen wichtigen Beitrag zur rezeptionsorientierten Exegese dar.' C. Maier, Zeitschrift fur die Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft.

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Athalya Brenner, Ph.D. (1979), University of Manchester, is Senior Lecturer at the Technion, Haifa, Israel and Professor of Feminism and Christianity at the Catholic University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands. She has published widely on feminist exegesis of the Hebrew Bible. Fokkelien van Dijk-Hemmes, Ph.D. (1992), University of Amsterdam, was Lecturer in Old Testament and Women's Studies at the University of Utrecht until her untimely death in 1994. A volume of essays is her memory has recently appeared: On Reading Prophetic Texts. Gender-specific and Related Studies in memory of Fokkelien van Dijk-Hemmes, edited by Bob Becking & Meindert Dijkstra (Brill, 1996).

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