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PROOFTEXTS

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PROOFTEXTS JANUARY 1988 VOLUME 8 NUMBER 1

Contents

SPECIAL ISSUE: THE REPRESENTATION OF WOMEN

IN JEWISH LITERATURE S. D. Goitein

Women as Creators of Biblical Genres 1

Devora Steinmetz A Portrait of Miriam in Rabbinic Midrash 35

Tova Rosen On Tongues Being Bound and Let Loose:

Women in Medieval Hebrew Literature 67

Talya Fishman A Medieval Parody of Misogyny: Judah ibn Shabbetai's

"Minhat Yehudah sone hanashim" 89

Nehama Aschkenasy Women and the Double in Modern Hebrew Literature:

Berdichewsky/Agnon, Oz/Yehoshua 113

Esther Fuchs Amalia Kahana-Carmon's And Moon in the Valley of Ajalon:

A Feminist's Reading 129

REVIEWS Naomi B. Sokoloff Feminist Criticism and Hebrew Literature 143

Errata 158



In Future Issues

Uriel Simon A Balanced Story: The Stern Prophet and the Kind Witch

judah goldin On Shalom Spiegel: An Appreciation

Jack Sasson Who Cut Samson's Hair?

Eliezer Segal Law as Allegory? Ruth Karton-Blum The Akedah in Modern Hebrew Poetry goldie morgentaler In the Foreskin of the Heart:

Ecumenism in Sholem Asch's Christian Trilogy Malka Shared The Jewish Family Saga Nurit Gertz To Ceasar What Is Caesar's:

Ideology vs. Literature in the Stories of Hazaz

Deborah Steinhardt

Figures of Thought: Psycho-Narration in the Fiction of Berdichewsky, Bershadsky and Feierberg

Seth L. Wolitz Satan in Goray as Parable

GlLEAD morahg God and Country in the Fiction of A. B. Yehoshua



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