Esther Fuchs | |
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| Born | 1953 (age 70–71) Tel Aviv, Israel |
| Nationality | Israeli |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | |
| Thesis | Irony in the Works of S. Y. Agnon (1980) |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | |
| School or tradition | Jewish feminism |
| Institutions | |
Esther Fuchs[a] (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 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]
