This volume is part of a series which provides a fundamental resource for feminist biblical scholarship, containing a comprehensive selection of essays, both reprinted and specially written for the series, by leading feminist scholars. The contributors to this volume are Lyn Bechtel, Mark Bredin, Athalya Brenner, Edna Brocke, Carole Fontaine, Lillian Klein, Amy-Jill Levine, Judith Lieu, Heather McKay, Adele Reinhartz, Jane Schaberg, Marla Selvidge, Leonore Siegele-Wenschkewitz, Beverly Stratton, Arie Troost, Pieter van der Horst, and Bea Wyler.

Abbreviations/ Athalya Brenner/ A Personal Note/ Athalya Brenner/ Introduction/ Part I/ Hebrew Bible Characters Recycled: Some Principles/ Heather McKay/ 'Only a Remnant of Them Will Be Saved': Women from the Hebrew Bible in New Testament Narratives/ Heather McKay/ 'Old Wine in New Wineskins': The Refashioning of Male Hebrew Bible Characters in New Testament Texts/ Mark Bredin/ Gentiles and the Davidic Tradition in Matthew/ Pieter W. Van Der Horst/ Sarah's Seminal Emisson: Hebrews 11.11 in the Light of Ancient Embryology/ Part II/ Women and the Feminine: New Testament Women Characters/ Bea Wyler/ Mary's Call/ Jane Schaberg/ The Foremothers and the Mother of Jesus/ Arie Troost/ Elizabeth and Mary-Naomi and Ruth: Gender Response Criticism in Luke 1-2/ Adele Reinhartz/ From Narrative to History: The Resurrection of Mary and Martha/ Judith Lieu/ Scripture and the Feminine in John/ Lyn M. Bechtel/ A Symbolic Level of Meaning: John 2.1-11 (The Marriage in Cana)/ Part III/ On the Gendering of the Female Body/ Beverly Stratton/ Eye Through Several Lenses Truth in 1 Timothy 2.8-15/ Marla J. Selvidge/ Reflections on Violence and Pornography: Misogyny in the Apocalypse and Ancient Hebrew Prophecy/ Carole R. Fontaine/ Disabilities and Illness in the Bible: A Feminist Perspective/ Part IV/ Anti-Judaism in the New Testament and its Feminist Interpretations?/ Amy-Jill Levine/ Second Temple Judaism, Jesus and Women: Yeast of Eden/ Luise Schottroff/ Through German and Feminist Eyes: A Liberationist Reading of Luke 7.36-50/ Leonora Siegele-Wenschkewitz/ In the Dangerous Currents of Old Prejudices: How Predominant Thoughts Have Disastrous Effects and What Could Be Done to Counter Them/ Edna Brocke/ Do the Origins Already Contain the Malady?/ Lillian R. Klein/ On 'Anti-Judaism' in German Feminist Thought: Some Reflections By Way of a Response/ Bibliography