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. ==Selected works==