Women and Exilic Identity in the Hebrew Bible

Katherine E. Southwood is University Lecturer and Associate Professor in Old Testament and a Fellow and Tutor in Theology and Religion at the University of Oxford, UK.Martien Halvorson-Taylor is Associate Professor and Associate Chair in Religious Studies at the University of Virginia, USA.

• List of Contributors Abbreviations Introduction - Martien A. Halvorson- Taylor, University of Virginia, USA and Katherine E. Southwood, Oxford University, UK Chapter 1: “YOU WILL FORGET YOUR ANCIENT SHAME”: THE INNOCENCE OF SUSANNA AND THE VINDICATION OF ISRAEL - Jennie Grillo, Duke Divinity School Durham, USAChapter 2: THE ONES RETURNING: RUTH, NAOMI, AND SOCIAL NEGOTIATION IN THE POST- EXILIC PERIOD - Danna Nolan Fewell, Drew Theological School Madison, USAChapter 3: CHALLENGED BOUNDARIES: GENDER AND THE OTHER IN PERIODS OF CRISIS - Lawrence M. Wills, Episcopal Divinity School, USAChapter 4: SISTER SAVE US: THE MATRIARCHS AS BREADWINNERS AND THEIR THREAT TO PATRIARCHY IN THE ANCESTRAL NARRATIVE - Casey A. Strine, University of Sheffield, UKChapter 5: GENDER AND SUBJECTIVITY IN JEREMIAH 44 - Carolyn J. Sharp, Yale Divinity School, USAChapter 6: FAMILIAL IDENTITY AND CONFLICT THROUGH FORCED MIGRATION IN ISAIAH 49:14– 66:24 79 - Mark J. Boda, McMaster Divinity College, USAChapter 7: SLEEPING WITH THE ENEMY? READING ESTHER AND JUDITH AS COMFORT WOMEN - Daniel L. Smith- Christopher, Loyola Marymount University, USAChapter 8: “JUDGEMENT WAS EXECUTED UPON HER, AND SHE BECAME A BYWORD AMONG WOMEN” (EZEK. 23:10): DIVINE REVENGE PORN, SLUT- SHAMING, ETHNICITY, AND EXILE IN EZEKIEL 16 AND 23 - Holly Morse, University of Manchester, UKBibliographyIndex

The contributions show a range of the best scholarship on women and foreign identities, with important consequences for how the foreign/known is perceived, and what that has meant for women through the centuries.