Esther Fuchs

Esther Fuchs studied at Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Brandeis University. The recorded working language is Hebrew and English. The field of work recorded is Near East and Hebraism. Employment is recorded with University of Texas at Austin and University of Arizona.

• Name — Esther Fuchs • Native Name — אסתר פוקס • Born — 1953 • Birthplace — Tel Aviv, Israel • Alma Mater — * Hebrew University of Jerusalem • Brandeis University • Thesis Title — Irony in the Works of S. Y. Agnon • Thesis Year — 1980 • School Tradition — Jewish feminism • Discipline — * Biblical studies • Judaic studies • Workplaces — * University of Texas at Austin • University of Arizona

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. 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.

• 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