Marianne Schleicher is Associate Professor of Jewish Studies at the Study of Religion at Aarhus University, Denmark. Her research interests lie in the intersection of Judaism, scripture, gender, and the history of religion.

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• Table of ContentsList of Figures viIntroduction. Gender and Sacred Text(ure)s: Extending the Field of Sacred Text Studies 1, Marianne Schleicher1 Old Norse Women’s Use of Sacred Textures in Crisis Situations 11, Emma C. Sørlie Jørgensen2 Drinkable Ink or Womb-Destroying Words? A Solution for Suspected Adultery in Numbers 5:11–31 39, Rosanne Liebermann3 Jewish Women and Sacred Text(ure)s: Making Women’s Religious Agency in Jewish Book Culture Intelligible 65, Marianne Schleicher4 The Gender of Purple Manuscripts and the Makeup of Sacred Scriptures 95, Thomas Rainer5 “Then Queen Esther Daughter of Abihail Wrote”: Gendered Agency and Ritualized Writing in Jewish Scriptural Practice 127, Joanna Homrighausen6 “I Left My Bible At Home…”: Evangelical Women’s Bodies as Biblical Text in the Workplace during the 1980s 159, Rachel E. C. Beckley7 Doing Piety through Care: Embodied Enactments of the Qur’an and Gender Perceptions in Muslim families in Contemporary Denmark 175, Abir Mohamad IsmailIndex 193

Marianne Schleicher is Associate Professor of Jewish Studies at the Study of Religion at Aarhus University, Denmark. Her research interests lie in the intersection of Judaism, scripture, gender, and the history of religion.

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• Table of ContentsList of Figures viIntroduction. Gender and Sacred Text(ure)s: Extending the Field of Sacred Text Studies 1, Marianne Schleicher1 Old Norse Women’s Use of Sacred Textures in Crisis Situations 11, Emma C. Sørlie Jørgensen2 Drinkable Ink or Womb-Destroying Words? A Solution for Suspected Adultery in Numbers 5:11–31 39, Rosanne Liebermann3 Jewish Women and Sacred Text(ure)s: Making Women’s Religious Agency in Jewish Book Culture Intelligible 65, Marianne Schleicher4 The Gender of Purple Manuscripts and the Makeup of Sacred Scriptures 95, Thomas Rainer5 “Then Queen Esther Daughter of Abihail Wrote”: Gendered Agency and Ritualized Writing in Jewish Scriptural Practice 127, Joanna Homrighausen6 “I Left My Bible At Home…”: Evangelical Women’s Bodies as Biblical Text in the Workplace during the 1980s 159, Rachel E. C. Beckley7 Doing Piety through Care: Embodied Enactments of the Qur’an and Gender Perceptions in Muslim families in Contemporary Denmark 175, Abir Mohamad IsmailIndex 193

Marianne Schleicher is Associate Professor of Jewish Studies at the Study of Religion at Aarhus University, Denmark. Her research interests lie in the intersection of Judaism, scripture, gender, and the history of religion.

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• Table of ContentsList of Figures viIntroduction. Gender and Sacred Text(ure)s: Extending the Field of Sacred Text Studies 1, Marianne Schleicher1 Old Norse Women’s Use of Sacred Textures in Crisis Situations 11, Emma C. Sørlie Jørgensen2 Drinkable Ink or Womb-Destroying Words? A Solution for Suspected Adultery in Numbers 5:11–31 39, Rosanne Liebermann3 Jewish Women and Sacred Text(ure)s: Making Women’s Religious Agency in Jewish Book Culture Intelligible 65, Marianne Schleicher4 The Gender of Purple Manuscripts and the Makeup of Sacred Scriptures 95, Thomas Rainer5 “Then Queen Esther Daughter of Abihail Wrote”: Gendered Agency and Ritualized Writing in Jewish Scriptural Practice 127, Joanna Homrighausen6 “I Left My Bible At Home…”: Evangelical Women’s Bodies as Biblical Text in the Workplace during the 1980s 159, Rachel E. C. Beckley7 Doing Piety through Care: Embodied Enactments of the Qur’an and Gender Perceptions in Muslim families in Contemporary Denmark 175, Abir Mohamad IsmailIndex 193