Angelika Berlejung (Herausgegeben von) Geboren 1961; ist Professorin für „Geschichte und Religion Israels und seiner Umwelt" an der Theologischen Fakultät der Universität Leipzig, außerordentliche Professorin für Altertumswissenschaften an der University of Stellenbosch/Südafrika, Gastprofessorin für Biblische Archäologie an der Bar-Ilan-Universität/Israel sowie ordentliches Mitglied der Sächsischen Akademie der Wissenschaften.Marianne Grohmann (Herausgegeben von) is professor for Old Testament Studies at the University of Vienna in Austria.

• Lars Allolio-Näcke: How to Become an Alien (Woman)? - Sara Japhet: Marriage with Foreign Women: Yes or No? - Nili Wazana: Rahab, the Unlikely Foreign Woman of Jericho (Joshua 2) - Marianne Grohmann: The Philistine Woman from Timnah in Judges 14:1-15:8 - Angelika Berlejung: Solomon's Soulmate: The Queen of Sheba as Foreign Woman - Daniel Bodi: When Yhwh's Wife, Jerusalem, Became a Strange Woman: Inversion of Values in Ezekiel 16 in Light of Ištar Cult - From Spouse to Brothel Boss (ʾiššâ zônâ šallāṭet) - Stefan Fischer: Foreign Women in the Book of Proverbs - Jan Dietrich: The Image of the Foreign Woman in Proverbs 1-9 - Hans-Peter Mathys: Phoenicians and Money Bags. Observations on Prov 7 - Hans-Peter Mathys: The Valiant Housewife of Prov 31:10-31: A Phoenician Businesswoman - Jutta Hausmann: Pharaoh's Daughter and Ruth - Cornerstones in the History of Israel - Agnethe Siquans: A Moabite Woman as the 'Right Son': Ruth as Naomi's and Boaz's Daughter - Kristin Joachimsen: Esther in Shushan: Narrative Constructions of Otherness related to Gender, Ethnicity and Social Status within the Persian Empire - Franziska Naether: Ancient Expats? Wise Women and Witches in Egyptian Literary Sources - Angelika Berlejung: Forever Foreign? Marriage Rules in Urban Babylonia and their Impact on the Exiles and Returnees