Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-267)-and indexes.
Contents
Introduction / Athalya Brenner -- ... et Genetrix / Mary Phil Korsak -- Gender construction in the Yahwist creation myth / Ronald A. Simkins -- The doom of paradise : literary patterns in accounts of paradise and mortality in the Hebrew Bible and the ancient Near East / Diane M. Sharon -- Daddy-dearest and the 'invisible spirit of wine' / Ilona N. Rashkow -- A feminist reading of Genesis 19.1-11 / Lyn M. Bechtel -- Abraham and the seeds of patriarchy / Carol Delaney -- Through whose eyes? : a 'right' reading of Genesis 34 / Susanne Scholz -- Genesis 21.12 : a new reading of an ambiguous text / Mayer I. Gruber -- Changing the subject : retelling the story of Hagar the Egyptian / Danna Nolan Fewell -- The dismissal of Hagar in five works of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries -- Biblical women that come in pairs : the use of female pairs as a literary device in the Hebrew Bible / Phyllis Silverman Kramer -- The voice of Rachel : resistance and polyphony in Genesis 31.14-45 / J.E. Lapsley.