Re-Reading the Hebrew Scriptures: Feminist Perspectives in Contemporary Artwork by Israeli Women
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The article discusses contemporary Israeli women artists that are in dialogue with the ancient Hebrew scriptures. Starting in the 1970s, they gradually built a critical language that responded to and changed the traditional patriarchal approach to the Jewish texts. Through a number of case studies of art works, feminist analysis shows that contemporary artists no longer look upon the scriptures with awe, neither do they take a nostalgic approach to it; but, rather, they create complex and multi layered pieces, that divert and change the ancient writings and add new meanings to them, thus making them relevant to their lives as women living in the post-modern era – be it their personal psychological state of mind, issues concerning the current political situation the country, or critical responses to the power relations within their social milieu. Analyzing the works of these particular artists becomes important for the understanding of a broader investigation into women's art in the Israeli context and culture at large.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.006 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.022 | 0.044 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.012 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.004 | 0.005 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".