Bible Review

J. Cheryl Exum,“You Shall Let Every Daughter Live: A Study of Exodus 1:8–2:10, ” Semeia 28 (1983), pp. 63–82.

Renita Weems, “Gomer: Victim of Violence or Victim of Metaphor?” Semeia 46 (1989), pp. 87–104.

Phyllis Trible, Texts of Terror (Philadelphia: Fortress, 1984).

David A.J. Clines, “ ‘What Does Eve Do to Help?’ And Other Irredeemably Androcentric Orientations in Genesis 1–3” in What Does Eve Do to Help? And Other Readerly Questions in the Old Testament, JSOT Supplement Series 94 (Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1990), pp. 25–48.

Susan Lanser, “(Feminist) Criticism in the Garden: Inferring Genesis 2–3, ” Semeia 41 (1988), pp. 67–84.

David Jobling, “Myth and Its Limits in Genesis 2:4b–3:24, ” in The Sense of Biblical Narrative: Structural Analyses in the Hebrew Bible 2 (Sheffield, UK: JSOT Press, 1986) pp. 17–43.

Trible has several articles on this text but the most extensive is “A Love Story Gone Awry,” in her book, God and the Rhetoric of Sexuality (Philadelphia: Fortress, 1978), pp, 73–143. For a more detailed review of Trible’s work and of the negative uses of Genesis 2–3 through the centuries see my “Eve and Adam: Is a Feminist Reading Possible?” BR 04:03.

Phyllis Trible, “Depatriarchalizing in Biblical Interpretation,” Journal of the American Academy of Religion 41 (1973), p. 31

Constance Parvey, “The Theology and Leadership of Women in the New Testament,” in Religion and Sexism, pp. 117–149.