SOTSSociety for Old Testament Study
Portrait of Professor Athalya Brenner-Idan
a.brenner2@contact.uva.nluva.nl

Honorary Member

Professor Athalya Brenner-Idan

Professor Emerita of HB/OT, Universiteit van Amsterdam

Professor Brenner-Idan’s research interests include feminist criticism of the Hebrew Bible and early Judaisms; transdisciplinary approaches to the Hebrew Bible; bibles and cultures; Semitic philology; and computer applications in the Humanities.

Select publications

  • Brenner, A., and F. van Dijk-Hemmes, (eds) On Gendering Texts: Female and Male Voices in the Hebrew Bible (Leiden: Brill, 1993).
  • Brenner, A., I Am: Biblical Women Tell their own Stories (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2004).
  • Brenner-Idan, A., and G. Yee, (eds.), Samuel, Kings, Chronicles, Ezra-Nehemiah, Texts@Contexts Volume 2 (London: Bloomsbury T&T Clark: 2021). ( https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/samuel-kings-chronicles-ezranehemiah-9780567701152/ )
  • Brenner-Idan, A., ‘Ruth as a Foreign Worker and the Politics of Exogamy’, Chinese Jewish Studies 18 (2021) 33-42.
  • Brenner-Idan, A., ‘Bible, Theology, and Politics in Times of Pandemics’, Svenks Exegestisk Årsbok 87 (2022) 8–44.
  • Brenner-Idan, A. ‘Foreword’ in S. Dievenkorn and Levin S. (eds.), [Re]Gained in Translation I: Bibles, Theologies, and the Politics of Empowerment (Berlin: Frank & Timme GmbH, 2022, pp. 7-12).
  • Brenner-Idan, A., ‘M&M: Some Reflections’, Biblische Notizen 193 (2022) 65-69.
  • Brenner-Idan, Athalya and Gale Yee (eds.) My Psalm, My Context, Texts@Contexts Volume 8 (London: Bloomsbury T&T Clark: 2023).