The Proverbial Woman offers a narrative and dialogical approach to the text of Proverbs 31 that unearths the poetry's social, sexual, and political silences and silencings. Chase excavates the power dynamics that promote elite ideologies even as gaps, ambiguities, and contradictions enable marginalized perspectives within the text to resist them.

Amy J. Chase is a Hebrew Bible scholar who earned her PhD at Drew University. A former journalist, she focuses her research on biblical depictions of emotion, narrative criticism, biblical interpretation, and the space theories of Henri Lebvre and Doreen Massey.