Feminist Companion to Samuel-Kings

Abbreviations/ Athalya Brenner/ Introduction/ Part I/ Women as Vehicles for Historiography: Liminality and Anonymity/ Karla G. Shargent/ Living on the Edge: The Liminality of Daughters in Genesis to 2 Samuel/ Adele Reinhartz/ Anonymous Women and the Collapse of the Monarchy: A Study in Narrative Technique/ A Model Mother: Hannah/ Yairah Amit/ 'Am I Not More Devoted To You Than Ten Sons?' (1 Samuel 1.8): Male and Female Interpretations/ Lillian R. Klein/ Hannah: Marginalized Victim and Social Redeemer/ Carol Meyers/ Hannah and her Sacrifice: Reclaiming Female Agency/ Part III/ Women and Monarchs/ Alice Bach/ The Pleasure of her Text/ Schulamit Valler/ King David and 'his' Women: Biblical Stories and Talmudic Discussions/ Carole R. Fontaine/ The Bearing of Wisdom on the Shape of 2 Samuel 11-12 and 1 Kings 3/ Carole R. Fontaine/ A Response to 'The bearing of Wisdom'/ Part IV/ Queen Mothers/ Zafrira Ben- Barak/ The Status and Right of the gebîrâ/ Ktizah Spanier/ The Queen Mother in the Judaen Royal Court: Maacah A Case Study/ Tina Pippin/ Jezebel Re-vamped/ Part V/ Female, Femaleness/ Prophets, Prophecy/ Jan Tarlin/ Toward a 'Female' Reading of the Elijah Cycle: Ideology and Gender in the Interpretation of 1 Kings 17-19, 21 and 2 Kings 1-2.18/ Fokkelien Dijk-Hemmes/ The Great Women of Shunem and the Man of God: A Duel Interpretation of 2 Kings 4.8-37/ Diana Edelmann/ Huldah the Prophet- of Yahweh or Asherah?/ Epilogue/ Women in Later Historiography and History/ Tamara C. Eskenazi/ Out for the Shadows: Biblical Women in the Post-Exilic Era/ Bibliography