Three Articles Analyze Exodus Poems by Janet Ruth Heller

Prof. Anat Koplowitz-Breier has written three scholarly articles that include analysis of my poems in Exodus (WordTech Editions, 2014) about women in the Bible. She discusses my poems “Leah,” “Lot’s Wife,” and “Yiftach’s Daughter.”

Her article “Modernizing Leah” discusses many contemporary women writers’ depiction of Leah (Women’s Studies 47:5 [2018]: pp. 527-540. Koplowitz-Breier’s new article will analyze different writers’ views of Lot’s wife (forthcoming in Literature and Theology). Her article “A Nameless Bride of Death” discusses five different women writers’ portrayal of Jephthah’s daughter (Open Theology 6 [2020]: pp. 1-14. I’m thrilled that she admires my poems and analyzes them so thoroughly.

Cover of Janet Ruth Heller’s poetry book Exodus