Provides feminist approaches to Wisdom Literature from leading scholars of the Hebrew Bible and feminist hermeneutics.

Abbreviations / Athalya Brenner
Introduction
Part I
Women and Wisdom: Social Roles and Literary Figurations / Carole R. Fontaine
The Social Roles of Women in the World of Wisdom / Athalya Brenner
Some Observations on the Figurations of Woman in Wisdom Literature / Silvia Schroer
Wise and Counselling Women in Ancient Israel: Literary and Historical Ideals of the Personified hokmâ /
Schulamit Valler
Who is eset hayil in Rabbinic Literature?
Part II
Wisdom and Otherness: The Case of the Issâ Zârâ / Mieke Heijerman
Who Would Blame Her? The 'Strange' Woman of Proverbs / Gale A. Yee
'I Have Perfumed My Bed with Myrrh': The Foreign Woman (issâ zârâ) in Proverbs 1-9 / Gale A. Yee
The Socio-Literary Production of the 'Foreign Woman' in Proverbs / Claudia V. Camp
Wise and Strange: An Interpretation of the Female Imagery in Proverbs in Light of Trickster Mythology / Harold C. Washington
The Strange Woman of Proverbs 1-9 and Post-Exilic Judaean Society
Part III
On the Book of Job / Lillian R. Klein
Job and the Womb: Text about Men, Subtext about Women / Ellen van Wolde
The Development of Job: Mrs Job as Catalyst / Lyn M. Bechtel
A Feminist Approach to the Book of Job
Bibliography