Fortress Press

"Phyllis Bird has contributed immensely to fresh feminist interpretive angles in biblical scholarship. The present volume attests to her steadfastness in such an enterprise." --Walter Brueggemann from the Foreword "For more than twenty years Phyllis Bird has meticulously investigated a wide spectrum of issues relating to the place, role, and traditions of women in the ancient Near East and to gender relationships as they unfold in stories, images, and metaphors within the biblical text. To this task she brings expertise in philology, history, anthropology, sociology, and cross-cultural study. As if those fields were in themselves not more than enough to encompass, she has persisted in exploring the results of her research for the life of faith. So she moves into questions about the use, interpretation, and authority of the Scriptures in worshiping communities. A formidable corpus of articles testifies to the substantial contributions she has made. To have these articles now collected into a single volume is convenient, impressive, and salutary for the instruction of us all." --Phyllis Trible Union Theological Seminary, New York

Foreword
Abbreviations
Preface

I. Women in Ancient Israel
II. Women in Israelite Religion
III. Genesis 1-3
IV. Harlot and Hierodule
V. Hermeneutics and the Authority of the Bible

Scripture Index
Subject Index
Author Index