About this ebook
Fathers,
sons, and mothers take center stage in the Bible’s grand narratives, Amy
Kalmanofsky observes. Sisters and sisterhood receive less attention in
scholarship but, she argues, play an important role in narratives, revealing
anxieties related to desire, agency, and solidarity among women playing out
(and playing against) their roles in a patrilineal society. Most often, she
shows, sisters are destabilizing figures in narratives about family crisis,
where property, patrimony, and the resilience of community boundaries are at
risk. Kalmanofsky demonstrates that the particular role of sisters had
important narrative effects, revealing previously underappreciated dynamics in
Israelite society.
sons, and mothers take center stage in the Bible’s grand narratives, Amy
Kalmanofsky observes. Sisters and sisterhood receive less attention in
scholarship but, she argues, play an important role in narratives, revealing
anxieties related to desire, agency, and solidarity among women playing out
(and playing against) their roles in a patrilineal society. Most often, she
shows, sisters are destabilizing figures in narratives about family crisis,
where property, patrimony, and the resilience of community boundaries are at
risk. Kalmanofsky demonstrates that the particular role of sisters had
important narrative effects, revealing previously underappreciated dynamics in
Israelite society.
About the author
Amy Kalmanofsky is assistant professor of Bible at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York and an ordained rabbi in the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College. She has authored Terror All Around: Horror, Monsters, and Theology in the Book of Jeremiah (2008) and a number of scholarly articles and is a contributor to The Torah: A Women’s Commentary (2008).
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