Preface/ Abbreviations/ Athalya Brenner/ Introduction/ Part I/ Metacritics/ Adele Reinhartz/ Feminist Criticism and Biblical Studies on the Verge of the Twenty-First Century/ Pamela J. Milne/ Toward Feminist Companionship: The Future of Feminine Biblical Studies and Feminism/ Heather A. McKay/ On the Future of Feminist Biblical Criticism/ Carole R. Fontaine/ The Abusive Bible: On the Use of Feminist Method in Pastoral Contexts/ Carol Smith/ Challenged by the Text: Interpreting Two Stories of Incest in the Hebrew Bible/ Athalya Brenner/ Identifying the Speaker-in-the-Text and the Reader's Location in Prophetic Texts: The Case of Isaiah 50/ Carole R. Fontaine/ Response to Brenner's 'Speaker-in-the-Text'/ Part II/ Difference and Otherness/ Sharon H. Ringe/ Approach to a Critical , Feminist, Theological Reading of the Bible/ Alicia Suskin Ostriker/ A Triple Hermeneutic: Scripture and Revisionist Women's Poetry/ Katharina Von Kellenbach/ Overcoming the Teaching of Contempt/ Kwok Pui-Lan/ Overlapping Communities and Multicultural Hermeneutics/ Part III/ Other Worlds/ Julie M. Asher-Greve/ Feminist Research and Ancient Mesoptomia: Problems and Prospects/ Lana Troy/ Engendering Creation in Ancient Egypt: Still and Flowing Waters/ Part IV/ Other Close Contexts/ Recovering Objects Re-Visioning Subjects: Archaeology and Feminist Biblical Study/ Eleanor Ferris Beach/ An Iconographic Approach to Genesis 38/ John J. Pilch/ Family Violence in Cross-Cultural Perspective: An Approach for Feminist Interpreters of the Bible/ Part V/ Otherness and Translation/ Kristin De Troyer/ Septuagint and Gender Studies: The Very Beginning of a Promising Liason/ Tod Linafelt/ Surviving Lamentations/ Part VI/ Goddesses and Wisdom/ Judith M. Hadley/ From Goddess to Literary Construct: The Transformation of Asherah into Hokmah/ Bernhard Lang/ Lady Wisdom: A Polytheistic and Psychological Interpretation of a Biblical Goddess/ Part VII/ Intertextuality/ Ellen Van Wolde/ Intertextuality: Ruth in Dialogue with Tamar/ Elaine Wainwright/ Rachel Weeping for her Children: Intertextuality and the Biblical Testaments- A Feminist Approach/  Part VIII/ Forays into Rabbinics/ Judith Hauptman/ Rabbinic Interpretation of Scripture/ Miriam Peskowitz/ Rabbis Feminists and Patriarchy's Ordinariness/ Daniel Boyarin/ Torah Study and the Making of Jewish Gender/ Part IX/ The Personal/ Autobiographical/ David Gunn/ Reflections on David/ Athalya Brenner/ 'My' Song of Songs/ Part X/ Back to the Traditional/ Carole R. Fontaine/ Editor's Preface to Claus Westermann's 'Beauty in the Hebrew Bible'/ Claus Westermann/ Beauty in the Hebrew Bible/ Bibliography