Matriarchal Midrash From: Judaism | Date: October 1, 1996| Author: Schein, Andrew | Copyright American Jewish Congress Fall 1996. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

Rachel By SAMUEL DRESNER. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1994.

Reviewed by ANDREW SCHEIN

One of the difficulties of the Bible for the modern reader is the apparent androcentrism of the text. In response to this difficulty, recent studies, including Phyllis Trible's God and the Rhetoric of Sexuality, have argued that androcentrism is not found in the text but is due to interpreters. Drawing on this current of thought, Samuel Dresner in his recent book Rachel argues that the Bible...