Description: TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction: Women's World, Man's Place: Sexual Politics in the Hebrew Bible Alice Bach The Social World of Women in Ancient Israel :Phyllis Bird--The Place of Women in the Israelite Cultus Susan Ackerman--"And the Women Knead Dough": The Worship of the Queen of Heaven in Sixth-Century Judah Carol Myers--Women and the Domestic Economy of Early Israel Esther Fuchs--Structural and Patriarchal Functions in the Biblical Betrothal Type-Scene: Some Preliminary Notes Howard Eilberg-Schwartz--:The Problem of the Body for the People of the Book Reading Women into Biblical Narratives Esther Fuchs--Status and Role of Female Heroines in the Biblical Narrative Carol A. Newsom--Woman and the Discourse of Patriarchal Wisdom: A Study of Proverbs 1-9 Phyllis Bird--The Harlot and Heroine: Narrative Art and Social Presupposition in Three Old Testament Texts Nelly Furman--His Story Versus Her Story: Male Genealogy and Female Strategy in the Jacob Cycle Esther Fuchs--The Literary Characterization of Mothers and Sexual Politics in the Hebrew Bible :J. Cheryl Exum--Who's Afraid of "The Endangered Ancestress?" Goddess and Women of Magic Carole R. Fontaine--:A Heifer from Thy Stable: On Goddesses and the Status of Women in the Ancient Near East Susan Ackerman--The Queen Mother and the Cult in Ancient Israel Claudia V. Champ--The Wise Women on 2 Samuel: A Role Model for Women in Early Israel? Rereading Women in the Bible Edward L. Greenstein--Reading Strategies and the Story of Ruth Danna Nolan Fewell and David M. Gunn--"A Son is Born to Naomi!": Literary Allusions and Interpretation in the Book of Ruth Reuven Kimelman--The Seduction of Even and the Exegetical Politics of Gender Phyllis Trible--Genesis 22: The Sacrifice of Sarah Sexual Politics in the Hebrew Bible Tikva Frymer-Kensky--Law and Philosophy: The Case of Sex in the Bible Susan Niditch--Eroticism and Death in the Tale of Jael Mieke Bal --Dealing/With/Women: Daughters in the Book of Judges Regina M. Schwartz--Adultery in the House of David: The Metanarrative of Biblical Scholarship and the Narratives of the Bible Alice Bach--Signs of the Flesh: Observations on Characterization in the Bible Amy-Jill Levine--Sacrifice and Salvation: Otherness and Domestication in the Book of Judith Mark Stephen Caponigro--Judith, Holding the Tale of Herodotus Feminist Identities in Biblical Interpretation Alice Bach--Rereading the Body Politic: Women and Violence in Judges Judith Plaskow--Transforming the Nature of Community: Toward a Feminist People of Israel Alice Bach--With a Song in Her Heart: Listening to Scholars Listening to Miriam Elly Elshour, facilitator--Roundtable Discussion: Women with Disabilities-A Challenge to Feminist Theology A Case History: Numbers 5:11-31 Introduction to A Case History Tikva Frymer-Kensky--The Strange Case of the Suspected Sotah (Numbers V 11-31) Jacob Milgrom--The Case of the Suspected Adulteress, Numbers 5:11-31:Redaction and Meaning Jack Sasson--Numbers 5 and the "Waters of Judgement" Michael Fishbane--Accusation of Adultery: A Study of Law and Scribal Practice in Numbers 5:11-31 Alice Bach--Good to the Last Drop: Viewing the Sotah (Numbers 5:11-31) as the Glass is Half Empty and Wondering How to View It Half Full

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