Women in the Hebrew Bible: a reader

Introduction. Man's world, women's place : sexual politics in the Hebrew Bible / Alice Bach

The

social world of women in ancient Israel. The place of women in the Israelite cultus / Phyllis Bird

"And the women knead dough" : the worship of the Queen of Heaven in sixth-century Judah / Susan Ackerman

Women and the domestic economy of early Israel / Carol Meyers

Structure and patriarchal functions in the biblical betrothal type-scene : some preliminary notes / Esther Fuchs

The

problem of the body for the people of the book / Howard Eilberg-Schwartz

Reading women into biblical narratives. Status and role of female heroines in the biblical narrative / Esther Fuchs

Woman and the discourse of patriarchal wisdom : a study of Proverbs 1-9 / Carol A. Newsom.

harlot as heroine : narrative art and social presupposition in three Old Testament texts / Phyllis Bird

His story versus her story : male genealogy and female strategy in the Jacob cycle / Nelly Furman

The

literary characterization of mothers and sexual politics in the Hebrew Bible / Esther Fuchs

Who's afraid of "the endangered ancestress"? / J. Cheryl Exum

Goddesses and women of magic. A heifer from thy stable : on goddesses and the status of women in the ancient Near East / Carole R. Fontaine

The

Queen Mother and the cult in ancient Israel / Susan Ackerman

The

wise women of 2 Samuel : a role model for women in early Israel? / Claudia V. Camp

Rereading women in the Bible. Reading strategies and the story of Ruth / Edward L. Greenstein.

"A son is born to Naomi!" : literary allusions and interpretation in the Book of Ruth / Danna Nolan Fewell and David M. Gunn

The

seduction of Eve and the exegetical politics of gender / Reuven Kimelman

Genesis 22 : the sacrifice of Sarah / Phyllis Trible

Sexual politics in the Hebrew Bible. Law and philosophy : the case of sex in the Bible / Tikva Frymer-Kensky

Eroticism and death in the tale of Jael / Susan Niditch

Dealing with women : daughters in the Book of Judges / Mieke Bal

Adultery in the House of David : the metanarrative of biblical scholarship and the narratives of the Bible / Regina M. Schwartz

Signs of the flesh : observations on characterization in the Bible / Alice Bach

Sacrifice and salvation : otherness and domestication in the Book of Judith / Amy-Jill Levine.

Judith, holding the tale of Herodotus / Mark Stephen Caponigro

Feminist identities in biblical interpretation. Rereading the body politic : women and violence in Judges 21 / Alice Bach

Transforming the nature of community : toward a feminist people of Israel / Judith Plaskow

With a song in her heart : listening to scholars listening for Miriam / Alice Bach

Roundtable discussion : women with disabilities, a challenge to feminist theology / Elly Elshout, facilitator

A

case history : Numbers 5:11-31. The strange case of the suspected Sotah (Numbers V 11-31) / Tikva Frymer-Kensky

The

case of the suspected adulteress, Numbers 5:11-31 : redaction and meaning / Jacob Milgrom

Numbers 5 and the "waters of judgment" / Jack Sasson.

Accusations of adultery : a study of law and scribal practice in Numbers 5:11-31 / Michael Fishbane

Good to the last drop : viewing the Sotah (Numbers 5.11-31) as the glass half empty and wondering how to view it half full / Alice Bach.