Esther Fuchs Explained
Esther Fuchs should not be confused with Ester Fuchs.
| Esther Fuchs |
| Birth Place: | Tel Aviv, Israel |
| Nationality: | Israeli |
| Thesis Title: | Irony in the Works of S. Y. Agnon |
| Thesis Year: | 1980 |
| School Tradition: | Jewish feminism |
Esther Fuchs (born 1953) is an Israeli Jewish feminist biblical scholar. Fuchs is Professor of Near Eastern Studies and Judaic Studies at the University of Arizona.
Biography
Esther Fuchs was born in Tel Aviv and studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Brandeis University. She taught at the University of Texas at Austin before moving to the University of Arizona.[1]
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.[2]
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
Notes and References
- Book: Israeli Women's Studies: A Reader. About the Editor. 2005. Rutgers University Press. 331. 9780813536163. https://books.google.com/books?id=8p1YkEuhdXUC&pg=PA331. 9 July 2015.
- Web site: Everett-Haynes. La Monica. UA Professor Explores Feminist Interpretation of Bible. University of Arizona. 9 July 2015.
