Esther Fuchs
{{short description|Israeli Jewish feminist biblical scholar (born 1953)}}
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Esther Fuchs{{efn|Pronounced {{respell|FYOOKS}}.}} ({{Langx|he|אסתר פוקס}}; 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.{{cite book|title=Israeli Women's Studies: A Reader|chapter=About the Editor|date=2005|publisher=Rutgers University Press|page=331|isbn=9780813536163|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8p1YkEuhdXUC&pg=PA331|accessdate=9 July 2015}}
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.{{cite web|last1=Everett-Haynes|first1=La Monica|title=UA Professor Explores Feminist Interpretation of Bible|url=http://uaatwork.arizona.edu/lqp/ua-professor-explores-feminist-interpretation-bible|publisher=University of Arizona|accessdate=9 July 2015}}
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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Category:Brandeis University alumni
Category:Feminist biblical scholars
Category:Women biblical scholars
Category:Hebrew University of Jerusalem alumni
Category:Jewish biblical scholars
Category:Academics from Tel Aviv
Category:University of Arizona faculty
Category:University of Texas at Austin faculty
Category:20th-century Jewish biblical scholars
Category:21st-century Jewish biblical scholars
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