Esther Fuchs

Esther Fuchs
Esther Fuchs
Born	1953 (age 70–71); Tel Aviv, Israel
Nationality	Israeli
Academic background
Alma mater	Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Brandeis University;
Thesis	Irony in the Works of S. Y. Agnon (1980)
Academic work
Discipline	Biblical studies; Judaic studies;
School or tradition	Jewish feminism
Institutions	University of Texas at Austin; University of Arizona;

Esther Fuchs^[a] (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.^[2]

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.^[1]

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