Feminist Companion to Judges

Athalya Brenner-Idan is Professor Emerita of the HB\OT Chair at the Universiteit van Amsterdam, The Netherlands; and currently Professor in Biblical Studies at the Department of Hebrew Culture Studies, Tel Aviv University, Israel, and Research Associate at the Biblia Arabica Project there. In addition, she is Extraordinary Professor at the Department of OT/NT, Faculty of Theology, Stellenbosch University, South Africa. Her website is http://athalya-morah-letorah.com.

• Abbreviations/ Acknowledgements/ Athalya Brenner/ Introduction/ In General: Women and [Hi]story/ Lillian R. Klein/ A Spectrum of Female Characters/ Adrien Janis Bledstein/ Is Judges a Woman's Satire on Men Who Play God?/ Lillian R. Klein/ The Book of Judges: Paradigm and Deviation in Images of Women/ Leila Leah Bronner/ Valorized or Vilified? The Women of Judges in Midrashic Sources/ Part II/ On Text Authority in Judges 4-5/ Athalya Brenner/ A Triangle and a Rhombus in Narrative Structure: A Proposed Integrative Reading of Judges 4 and 5/  Fokkelien Van Dijk-Hemmes/ Mothers and a Mediator in the Song of Deborah/ Part III/ On Relational Women: A Daughter/ Esther Fuchs/ Marginalization, Ambiguity, Silencing: The Silence of Jephthah's Daughter/ J. Cheryl Exum/ On Judges 11/ Part IV/ On Relational Women: A Mother and Wife/ Yairah Amit/ ‘Manoah Promptly Followed his Wife' (Judges 13:11): On the Place of the Woman in Birth Narratives/ Adele Reinhartz/ Samson's Mother: An unnamed Protagonist/ Part V/ On Relational Women: A Wife/ Koala Jones-Warsaw/ Toward a Woman Hermeneutic: A Reading of Judges 19-21/ Peggy Kamuf/ Author of a Crime/ Mieke Bal/ A Body of Writing: Judges 19/ Athalya Brenner/ Afterword/ Bibliography