Judges: a feminist companion to the Bible

Introduction / Athalya Brenner

Achsah : what price this prize? / Lillian R. Klein

'I will sing a new song to my God' : some remarks on the intertextuality of Judith 16:1-17 / Claudia Rakel

The story of Jephthah's daughter in the Midrash /

Shulamit Valler

Jephtah's daughter : a thematic approach to the narrative as seen in selected rabbinic exegesis and in artwork / Phyllis Silverman Kramer

Delilah : a suitable case for (feminist) treatment? / Carol Smith

God of love/God of vengeance, or Samson's 'Prayer for vengeance' / Renate Jost

Lethal differences : sexual violence as violence against others in Judges 19 / Ilse Müllner

Rereading the body politic : women, violence and Judges 21 / Alice Bach.