Esther Fuchs (; born 1953) is an Israeli Jewish feminist

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. Fuchs is Professor of Near Eastern Studies and Judaic Studies at the

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Biography

Esther Fuchs was born in

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and studied at the

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and

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. She taught at the

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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

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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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