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Esther Fuchs (born 1953) is an Israeli Jewish feminist
biblical scholar Biblical studies is the academic application of a set of diverse disciplines to the study of the Bible (the Old Testament and New Testament).''Introduction to Biblical Studies, Second Edition'' by Steve Moyise (Oct 27, 2004) pages 11–12 Fo ...
. 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 The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI; he, הַאוּנִיבֶרְסִיטָה הַעִבְרִית בִּירוּשָׁלַיִם) is a public research university based in Jerusalem, Israel. Co-founded by Albert Einstein and Dr. Chaim Weiz ...
and Brandeis University. She taught at the University of Texas at Austin before moving to the University of Arizona. 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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