Esther Fuchs

Not to be confused with Ester Fuchs.

Esther Fuchs^[a] (Hebrew: אסתר פוקס; born 1953) is an Israeli Jewish feminist biblical scholar. Fuchs is Professor of Near Eastern Studies and Judaic Studies at the University of Arizona.

Esther Fuchs
אסתר פוקס
Born	1953 (age 71–72) 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

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

Notes

1. Pronounced FYOOKS.^[1]