Women in the Hebrew Bible : A Reader (Paperback)

1: The Social World of Women in Ancient Israel; 1: The Place of Women in the Israelite Cultus; 2: “And the Women Knead Dough”; 3: Women and the Domestic Economy of Early Israel; 4: Structure and Patriarchal functions in the Biblical Betrothal Type-Scene; 5: The Problem of the Body for the People of the Book; 2: Reading Women into Biblical Narratives; 6: Status and Role of Female Heroines in the Biblical Narrative; 7: Woman and the Discourse of Patriarchal Wisdom; 8: The Harlot as Heroine; 9: His Story Versus Her Story; 10: The Literary Characterization of Mothers and Sexual Politics in the Hebrew Bible; 11: Who's Afraid of “The Endangered Ancestress”?; 3: Goddesses and Women of Magic; 12: A Heifer from Thy Stable; 13: The Queen Mother and the Cult in Ancient Israel; 14: The Wise Women of 2 Samuel; 4: Rereading Women in the bible; 15: Reading Strategies and the Story of Ruth; 16: “A Son Is Born to Naomi!”; 17: The Seduction of Eve and the Exegetical Politics of Gender * 1; 18: Genesis 22; 5: Sexual Politics in the Hebrew Bible; 19: Law and Philosophy; 20: Eroticism and Death in the Tale of Jael; 21: Dealing/With/Women; 22: Adultery in the House of David; 23: Signs of the Flesh; 24: Sacrifice and Salvation; 25: Judith, Holding the Tale of Herodotus; 6: Feminist Identities in Biblical Interpretation; 26: Rereading the Body Politic; 27: Transforming the Nature of Community; 28: With a Song in Her Heart; 29: Roundtable Discussion; 7: The Social World of Women in Ancient Israel; 30: Introduction to A Case History; 31: The Strange Case of the Suspected Sotah (Numbers V11?31); 32: The Case of the Suspected Adulteress, Numbers 5:11?31; 33: Numbers 5 and the “Waters of Judgment”; 34: Accusations of Adultery; 35: Good to the Last Drop