Preface of the Editors to the First German Edition Preface of the Editors to the Second German Edition Editors' Preface to the American Edition Preface by the Editor of the English Language Edition xii xviii xix xxiii Genesis 1-11: The Primordial History 1 Helen Genesis 12-50: The Story of Origins as a Women's Story 15 Irmtraud Fischer Exodus: The Meaning of Liberation from "His" Perspective 33 Susanne Scholz Leviticus: The ABC of Creation 51 Gerburgis Feld Numbers: On Boundaries 68 Ursula Rapp Deuteronomy: Rights and Justice for Women in the Law 84 Angelika Engelmann Joshua: Tradition and Justice Women's Share in the Inheritance 100 Kerstin Ulrich Feminist biblical interpretation 2012 digitalisiert durch: IDS Basel Bern
Judges: Encoded Messages to Women 112 /. Cheryl Ruth: Border Crossings of Two Women in Patriarchal Society 128 Ina Johanne Petermann (Batmartha) Books of Samuel: Women at the Center of Israel's History 140 Ilse Müllner Books of Kings: Images of Women without Women's Reality 159 Kyung Sook Lee Books of Chronicles: In the of Women 178 Wacker Ezra and The Return of the Others 192 Christiane Karrer-Grube Esther: About Resistance against Anti-Semitism and 207 Klara Butting Job: Questioning the Book of the Righteous Sufferer 221 Christi Maier and Silvia The Psalms: "Who Is Speaking May Be All That Matters" 240 Ulrike Proverbs: How Feminine into Being 255 Christi Maier Qoheleth (Ecclesiastes): Man without Woman 273 Kato Song of Songs: Polyphony of Love 288 Athalya Brenner Isaiah: The Book of Female Metaphors Irmtraud Fischer
Jeremiah: When Wise Wailing Women and Prophetic Show the Way into 319 Angela Lamentations: Zion's Cry in 334 Maria Ezekiel: Male Prophecy with Female Imagery 345 Renate Jost and Elke Seifert Daniel: Not Counting Women and Children 361 Ilse von Hosea: The Man and the Woman (Women) Israel 371 386 Arnos: The Truth Is Concrete 397 Obadiah: Brother 406 Jonah: The Jonah Experience for Women Too? 411 Maria Kassel Micah: Call for Justice Hope for All 421 Sophia Bietenhard The Just God as Sexual Predator 433 Gerlinde Baumann Habakkuk: A Political Night-Prayer 443 Ulrike Zephaniah; or, The Threefold Jerusalem 450 Ulrike
Haggai and Zechariah: A New New Life for All 460 Beate Schmidtgen Malachi: To the of God, the Father? 473 1 Maccabees: Women's Existence at the Edges of the Text 483 Claudia Rakel 2 Maccabees: The Teaching of History Christine Gerber Tobit: A Lesson on Marriage and Family in the Diaspora 504 Helen Schüngel-Straumann Judith: About a Beauty Who Is Not What She Pretends to Be Claudia Rakel Baruch: Mail from Distant Shores Sirach (Ecclesiasticus): On the Relation between Divine and Real Women in an Androcentric Document 539 Angelika Strotmann Wisdom: An Example of Jewish Intercultural Theology 555 Silvia Schwer 4 Ezra: On the Struggle for New Life, the Time That Is Being and the Transformation of the Earth (2 Esdras 3-14) Luzia Sutter Rehmann Joseph and Aseneth: Perfect Bride or Heavenly Prophetess Angela Standhartinger Testament of Job: Job, Dinah, and Their Daughters Luzia Sutter Rehmann Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs: How Men Use Power Renate
Gospel of Matthew: Jewish-Christian Churches in Opposition to the Pax Romana 607 Martina S. Gospel of Mark: Women as True Disciples of Jesus 626 Monika Fander Gospel of Luke: The Will Be Lifted Up 645 Claudia Janssen and Regene Gospel of John: Spaces for Women 662 Ruth Habermann Acts of the Looking Forward and Looking Back 680 Richter Reimer Romans: A Feminist Reading 698 Elsa 1 Corinthians: How Freedom to Be 718 Luise Schottroff 2 Corinthians: Difference for Unity 743 Caroline Vander Stichele Galatians: On Discomfort about Gender and Other Problems of Otherness 755 Brigitte Kahl Ephesians: Community Spirit and Conservative Values as Survival Strategies in the Churches of Asia Minor 767 Helga Melzer-Keller Philippians: Up Those Who Have Been Put Down 784 Sheila Briggs Colossians: The Origin of the Table of Household Duties 796 Angela Standhartiger 1 Thessalonians: Opposing Death by Building Community 810 Jutta Bickmann
2 Thessalonians: Hope in God's Just Judgment 821 Marlene Crüsemann Pastoral Epistles: A Paul Domesticated Women 830 Ulrike Wagener Sabine A Reading under Apphia's Critical Eyes 848 Hebrews: Strangers in the World 857 Ulrike Wagener James: Conflict about the Way of Justice 870 Irene Dannemann 1 Peter: Survival Strategies for Harried Communities 878 Irene Foulkes 2 Peter: Guideposts for the Life 886 Irene Foulkes Letters of John 887 Kerstin Ruoff Jude: The Implications of Feminist Reading 898 Ruth Anne Reese Revelation: Inspirations from 9 5 Luzia Sutter Rehmann The Story of Thecla: Apostle between Fiction and Reality 926 Anne Jensen Acts of Xanthippe, Polyxena, and Rebecca; or, Three Women and Two Lionesses 933 Irene Dannemann Gospel of Mary: Mary Magdalene as Beloved Disciple and Representative of Jesus 943 Judith Hartenstein and Silke Petersen
Gospel of Thomas: Early Christian Traditions about Women Disciples of Jesus; or, Mary Magdalene Becomes Male 957 Judith Hartenstein and Silke Petersen Shepherd of Hermas: Being Enticed into Conversion in the Erotic Church of Sophia 970 Ulrike Auga Gospel of Peter: A Female Disciple of the Lord and Her Female Friends 983 Caroline Vander Stichele Protevangelium of James: God's Story Goes On 990 Bettina and Claudia Janssen Vitae 997 The Translators 1018 Index of Authors 1020