Bible Review

Bal, Narratology: Introduction to the Theory of Narrative (Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press, 1985), pp. 3–10.

The judges, Susan Ackerman of Dartmouth, Michael Fishbane of the University of Chicago and Burke Long of Bowdoin College mentioned three of Bal’s books in awarding her the prize (1991 BAS Publication Awards, BR 08:01).

Mieke Bal, Lethal Love: Feminist Literary Readings of Biblical Love Stories (Bloomington: Indiana Univ. Press, 1987), p. 1.

Tolbert is not prepared to go this far, at least not yet. She is certain, however, that new ways of reading and relating to the biblical text will have to be found. Her own suggestion is to explore the relationship of gender to reading. Tolbert, “Protestant Feminists,” pp. 14–19.

Tolbert, “Protestant Feminists,” p. 12.

Tolbert, “Protestant Feminists,” p. 5.

Tolbert, “Protestant Feminists,” p. 15.

Mary Ann Tolbert has articulated these difficulties in a recent article entitled, “Protestant Feminists and the Bible: On the Horns of a Dilemma,” The Pleasure of Her Text, pp. 5–23.

Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza, In Memory of Her: A Feminist Theological Reconstruction of Christian Origins (New York: Crossroad, 1983).

Exum, “Murder They Wrote: Ideology and the Manipulation of Female Presence in Biblical Narrative,” in The Pleasure of Her Text: Feminist Readings of Biblical and Historical Texts, ed. Alice Bach (Philadelphia: Trinity Press International, 1990), pp. 45–67.