A Feminist Companion to Prophets and Daniel

Abbreviations/ List of Contributors/ Athalya Brenner/ Introduction/ Part I/ Prophecy/ A. The Goddesss Revisited/ Judith M. Hadley/ The Queen of Heaven - Who is She?/ B. Female 'Prophets' or 'Prophetesses'?/ Esther Fuchs/ Prophecy and the Construction of Women: Inscription and Erasure/ Renate Jost/ The Daughters of Your People Prophesy/ Rainer Kessler/ Miriam and the Prophecy of the Persian Period/ C. The Pornoprophetic (?) Marriage Metaphor/ Gerlinde Baumann/ Propehtic Objections to YHWH as the Violent Husband of Israel: Reinterpretations of the Prophetic Marriage Metaphor in Second Isaiah (Isaiah 40-55)/ Mary E. Shields/ Circumcision of the Prostitute: Gender, Sexuality and the Call to Repentance in Jeremiah 3.1-4.4/ Mary E. Shields/ Self-Response to 'Circumcision of the Prostitute'/ Mary E. Shields/ Multiple Exposures: Body Rhetoric and Gender in Ezekiel 16/ Mary E. Shields/ Self-Response to' Multiple Exposures'/ Erin Runions/ Violence and the Economy of Desire in Ezekiel 16.1-45/ S. Tamar Kamionkowski/ Gender Reversal in Ezekiel 16/ Ulrike Sals/ Reading Zechariah 5. 5-11: Prophecy, Gender and (Ap)Perception/ Julia M. O'Brien/ On Saying "No" to a Prophet/ Julia M. O'Brien/ In Retrospect...Self-Response to 'on Saying "No" to a Prophet/ Mayer I. Gruber/ Nineveh the Adulteress/ Part II/ Daniel/ Athalya Brenner/ Who's Afraid of Feminist Criticism? Who's Afraid of Biblical Humour? The Case of the Obtuse Foreign Ruler in the Hebrew Bible/ Athalya Brenner/ Self-Response to 'Who's Afraid of Feminist Criticism?'/ H.J.M Van Deventer/ Another Wise Queen (Mother) - Women's Wisdom in Daniel 5.10-12?/ Emily Sampson/ Daniel, Belshazzar and Julia: The Rediscovery and Vindication of the Translation of Julia E. Smith (1792-1886)/ Bibliography/ Index of References/ Index of Authors