Contents

Introduction

• Jorunn Økland, Irmtraud Fischer, Mercedes Navarro Puerto, Adriana Valerio Women, Bible and Reception History: An International Project in Theology and Gender Studies Download

Part 1: The Bible as a Document Arising within a Historical Epoch

• Silvia Schroer Ancient Near Eastern Pictures as Keys to Biblical Texts
• Carol Meyers Archaeology — A Window to the Lives of Israelite Women
• Sophie Démare-Lafont The Status of Women in the Legal Texts of the Ancient Near East
• Donatella Scaiola Torah and Canon: Challenges and Perspectives

Part 2: Women Texts and Gender-Relevant Issues in the Torah

• Thomas Hieke Genealogy as a Means of Historical Representation in the Torah and the Role of Women in the Genealogical System
• Mercedes Navarro Puerto Divine Image and Likeness: Women and Men in Genesis 1–3 as an Open System in the Context of Genesis 1–11
• Irmtraud Fischer On the Significance of the “Women Texts” in the Ancestral Narratives
• Jopie Siebert-Hommes The Female Saviors of Israel’s Liberator: Twelve “Daughters” in Exodus 1 and 2
• Ursula Rapp Zipporah: The Vanishing of a Wife
• Mercedes García Bachmann Miriam, Primordial Political Figure in the Exodus
• Dorothea Erbele-Küster Gender and Cult: “Pure” and “Impure” as Gender-Relevant Categories
• Karin Finsterbusch Women between Subordination and Independence: Reflections on Gender-Related Legal Texts of the Torah

Bibliography

Contributors

Index of Ancient Sources

TORA

• Eds.
  Irmtraud Fischer
• Mercedes Navarro Puerto

• Collaborator
  Andrea Taschl-Erber

Year 2011