Missing Persons and Mistaken Identities: Women and Gender in Ancient Israel

I. Women in ancient Israel —
1. Images of women in the Old Testament —
2. Women (Old Testament) —
3. Poor man or poor woman?: gendering the poor in prophetic texts —
II. Women in Israelite religion —
4. The place of women in the Israelite cultus —
5. Israelite religion and the faith of Israel’s daughters: reflections on gender and religious definition —
III. Genesis 1-3 —
6. “Male and female he created them”: Genesis 1:27b in the context of the priestly account of creation —
7. Genesis 1-3 as a source for a contemporary theology of sexuality —
8. Genesis 3 in modern biblical scholarship —
IV. Harlot and heirodule —
9. The harlot as heroine: narrative art and social presupposition in three Old Testament texts —
10. “To play the harlot”: an inquiry into an Old Testament metaphor —
V. Hermaneutics and the authority of the Bible —
11. Translating sexist language as a theological and cultural problem —
12. Biblical authority in the light of a feminist critique.