num_pages: 304
description: I. Women in ancient Israel --1. Images of women in the Old Testament --2. Women (Old Testament) --3. Poor man or poor woman?: gendering the poor in prophetic texts --II. Women in Israelite religion --4. The place of women in the Israelite cultus --5. Israelite religion and the faith of Israel's daughters: reflections on gender and religious definition --III. Genesis 1-3 --6. "Male and female he created them": Genesis 1:27b in the context of the priestly account of creation --7. Genesis 1-3 as a source for a contemporary theology of sexuality --8. Genesis 3 in modern biblical scholarship --IV. Harlot and heirodule --9. The harlot as heroine: narrative art and social presupposition in three Old Testament texts --10. "To play the harlot": an inquiry into an Old Testament metaphor --V. Hermaneutics and the authority of the Bible --11. Translating sexist language as a theological and cultural problem --12. Biblical authority in the light of a feminist critique.
language: English
title: Missing Persons and Mistaken Identities: Women and Gender in Ancient Israel
titlecomplete: Missing Persons and Mistaken Identities: Women and Gender in Ancient Israel
genres: Old Testament, Religion, Theology, Feminism
ratings_count: 16
series: Overtures to Biblical Theology
publisher: Fortress Press