Gale A Yee is Profesor of Hebrew Bible and Director of Studies in Feminist Liberation Theologies at the Episcopal Divinity School (Cambridge, Massachusetts). Her books include Composition and Tradition in the Book of Hosea (1987) and Jewish Feasts and the Gospel of John (1989); she also edited Judges and Method: New Approaches in Biblical Studies (Fortress Press, 1995)
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Introduction Ideological Criticism and Woman as Evil The Social Sciences and Woman as Evil The Mother of All Living and We Her Children-Eve in Genesis 2-3 She Is Not My Wife and I Am Not Her Husband-Faithless Israel in Hosea 1-2 They Played the Whore in Egypt-The Promiscuous Sisters in Ezekiel 23 My Husband Is Not at Home, He Took His Money Bag with Him-The Other Woman in Proverbs 7 Conclusion
"Yee studies texts from the 10th century B.C.E. to the post-exilic period where 'female' is a signifying code for 'evil.'... This work [is] a welcome entry point into ideological criticism of texts whose ostensible subject is gender. For someone who is serious about the Bible or justice, this book is a 'must-have.'"