Tamar Kamionkowski, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Bible and Academic Dean of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College. She is the author of Gender Reversal and Cosmic Chaos: Studies in the Book of Ezekiel.

• I. Introduction; 1. Ezekiel and Gender Reversal; 2. Preliminary Considerations; a) Composition and Dating; b) Approaches to Ezekiel 16 and 23; 1. Traditional Commentators; 2. Feminist Readers; 3. Covenant Theologians; 3. Where Do We Go From Here?; II. Metaphor; 1. Metaphor Theories; 2. Cognitive Metaphor Theory; 3. Schemas and Slots; 4. Metaphor and Contextual Knowledge; 5. Metaphor and Persuasion; 6. Metaphor and Biblical Studies; 7. 'A Metaphor is Just a Metaphor'; 8. Conclusions; III. Gender Reversal: A weak man is a woman; 1. Metaphor in Socio-Cultural and Historical Context; a) Exile, Shame and Gender Crisis; b) Ezekiel and Exile; c) Responses to Gender Confusion: Hypervirility; d) Responses to Gender Confusion: Emasculation; e) Excursus: Psychologising Ezekiel; 2. Metaphor in Literary Context; a) The Mesopotamian Evidence; b) The Biblical Evidence; 3. Conclusions; IV. Ezekiel 16 and the Emasculated Man; 1. The Passive Girl; a) Translation and Commentary; b) Vulnerability ad absurdum; c) He Gives her Life; d) He Gives her Sexual Experience; 2. The Assertive Woman; a) Translation and Commentary; b) Women's Ejaculation; c) Usurping the Phallus; d) The Violent Woman; e) Financial Independence; f) Women's Ejaculation, Again; g) Inversion of Gender Order; 3. Conclusions; V. Ezekiel 23 and the Hypervirile Man; 1. Introducing Oholah and Oholibah; 2. Differences between Ezek. 16 and Ezek. 23; a) Roles of the Characters and Use of Verbs; b) Reformulation of Key Phrases; c) Affinities with Hosean and Jeremian Traditions; 3. Conclusions; VI. Conclusion

Tamar Kamionkowski, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Bible and Academic Dean of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College. She is the author of Gender Reversal and Cosmic Chaos: Studies in the Book of Ezekiel.

• I. Introduction; 1. Ezekiel and Gender Reversal; 2. Preliminary Considerations; a) Composition and Dating; b) Approaches to Ezekiel 16 and 23; 1. Traditional Commentators; 2. Feminist Readers; 3. Covenant Theologians; 3. Where Do We Go From Here?; II. Metaphor; 1. Metaphor Theories; 2. Cognitive Metaphor Theory; 3. Schemas and Slots; 4. Metaphor and Contextual Knowledge; 5. Metaphor and Persuasion; 6. Metaphor and Biblical Studies; 7. 'A Metaphor is Just a Metaphor'; 8. Conclusions; III. Gender Reversal: A weak man is a woman; 1. Metaphor in Socio-Cultural and Historical Context; a) Exile, Shame and Gender Crisis; b) Ezekiel and Exile; c) Responses to Gender Confusion: Hypervirility; d) Responses to Gender Confusion: Emasculation; e) Excursus: Psychologising Ezekiel; 2. Metaphor in Literary Context; a) The Mesopotamian Evidence; b) The Biblical Evidence; 3. Conclusions; IV. Ezekiel 16 and the Emasculated Man; 1. The Passive Girl; a) Translation and Commentary; b) Vulnerability ad absurdum; c) He Gives her Life; d) He Gives her Sexual Experience; 2. The Assertive Woman; a) Translation and Commentary; b) Women's Ejaculation; c) Usurping the Phallus; d) The Violent Woman; e) Financial Independence; f) Women's Ejaculation, Again; g) Inversion of Gender Order; 3. Conclusions; V. Ezekiel 23 and the Hypervirile Man; 1. Introducing Oholah and Oholibah; 2. Differences between Ezek. 16 and Ezek. 23; a) Roles of the Characters and Use of Verbs; b) Reformulation of Key Phrases; c) Affinities with Hosean and Jeremian Traditions; 3. Conclusions; VI. Conclusion

Tamar Kamionkowski, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Bible and Academic Dean of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College. She is the author of Gender Reversal and Cosmic Chaos: Studies in the Book of Ezekiel.

• I. Introduction; 1. Ezekiel and Gender Reversal; 2. Preliminary Considerations; a) Composition and Dating; b) Approaches to Ezekiel 16 and 23; 1. Traditional Commentators; 2. Feminist Readers; 3. Covenant Theologians; 3. Where Do We Go From Here?; II. Metaphor; 1. Metaphor Theories; 2. Cognitive Metaphor Theory; 3. Schemas and Slots; 4. Metaphor and Contextual Knowledge; 5. Metaphor and Persuasion; 6. Metaphor and Biblical Studies; 7. 'A Metaphor is Just a Metaphor'; 8. Conclusions; III. Gender Reversal: A weak man is a woman; 1. Metaphor in Socio-Cultural and Historical Context; a) Exile, Shame and Gender Crisis; b) Ezekiel and Exile; c) Responses to Gender Confusion: Hypervirility; d) Responses to Gender Confusion: Emasculation; e) Excursus: Psychologising Ezekiel; 2. Metaphor in Literary Context; a) The Mesopotamian Evidence; b) The Biblical Evidence; 3. Conclusions; IV. Ezekiel 16 and the Emasculated Man; 1. The Passive Girl; a) Translation and Commentary; b) Vulnerability ad absurdum; c) He Gives her Life; d) He Gives her Sexual Experience; 2. The Assertive Woman; a) Translation and Commentary; b) Women's Ejaculation; c) Usurping the Phallus; d) The Violent Woman; e) Financial Independence; f) Women's Ejaculation, Again; g) Inversion of Gender Order; 3. Conclusions; V. Ezekiel 23 and the Hypervirile Man; 1. Introducing Oholah and Oholibah; 2. Differences between Ezek. 16 and Ezek. 23; a) Roles of the Characters and Use of Verbs; b) Reformulation of Key Phrases; c) Affinities with Hosean and Jeremian Traditions; 3. Conclusions; VI. Conclusion