Esther Fuchs (; born 1953) is an Israeli Jewish feminist biblical scholar. Fuchs is Professor of Near Eastern Studies and Judaic Studies at the 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.
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 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
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