Athalya Brenner-Idan is Professor Emerita of the HB\OT Chair at the Universiteit van Amsterdam, The Netherlands; and currently Professor in Biblical Studies at the Department of Hebrew Culture Studies, Tel Aviv University, Israel, and Research Associate at the Biblia Arabica Project there. In addition, she is Extraordinary Professor at the Department of OT/NT, Faculty of Theology, Stellenbosch University, South Africa. Her website is http://athalya-morah-letorah.com.

• Abbreviations/ List of Contributors/ Athalya Brenner/ Introduction/ Lillian R. Klein/ Achsah: What Price this Prize?/ Claudia Rakel/ ‘I will Sing a New Song to my God': Some Remarks on the Intertextuality of Judith 16. 1-17/ Schulamit Valler/ The Story of Jephthah's Daughter in the Midrash/ Phyllis Silverman Kramer/ Jephthah's Daughter: A Thematic Approach to the Narrative as seen in Selected Rabbinic Exegesis and in Artwork/ Carol Smith/ Delilah : A Suitable Case for (Feminist) Treatment?/ Renate Jost/ God of Love/ God of Vengeance, or Samson's ‘Prayer for Vengeance'/ Illsa Müllner/ Lethal Differences: Sexual Violence as Violence Against Others in Judges 19/ Alice Bach/ Rereading the Body Politic: Women, Violence and Judges 21/ Bibliography/ Index of References/ Index of Authors

Athalya Brenner-Idan is Professor Emerita of the HB\OT Chair at the Universiteit van Amsterdam, The Netherlands; and currently Professor in Biblical Studies at the Department of Hebrew Culture Studies, Tel Aviv University, Israel, and Research Associate at the Biblia Arabica Project there. In addition, she is Extraordinary Professor at the Department of OT/NT, Faculty of Theology, Stellenbosch University, South Africa. Her website is http://athalya-morah-letorah.com.

• Abbreviations/ List of Contributors/ Athalya Brenner/ Introduction/ Lillian R. Klein/ Achsah: What Price this Prize?/ Claudia Rakel/ ‘I will Sing a New Song to my God': Some Remarks on the Intertextuality of Judith 16. 1-17/ Schulamit Valler/ The Story of Jephthah's Daughter in the Midrash/ Phyllis Silverman Kramer/ Jephthah's Daughter: A Thematic Approach to the Narrative as seen in Selected Rabbinic Exegesis and in Artwork/ Carol Smith/ Delilah : A Suitable Case for (Feminist) Treatment?/ Renate Jost/ God of Love/ God of Vengeance, or Samson's ‘Prayer for Vengeance'/ Illsa Müllner/ Lethal Differences: Sexual Violence as Violence Against Others in Judges 19/ Alice Bach/ Rereading the Body Politic: Women, Violence and Judges 21/ Bibliography/ Index of References/ Index of Authors

Athalya Brenner-Idan is Professor Emerita of the HB\OT Chair at the Universiteit van Amsterdam, The Netherlands; and currently Professor in Biblical Studies at the Department of Hebrew Culture Studies, Tel Aviv University, Israel, and Research Associate at the Biblia Arabica Project there. In addition, she is Extraordinary Professor at the Department of OT/NT, Faculty of Theology, Stellenbosch University, South Africa. Her website is http://athalya-morah-letorah.com.

• Abbreviations/ List of Contributors/ Athalya Brenner/ Introduction/ Lillian R. Klein/ Achsah: What Price this Prize?/ Claudia Rakel/ ‘I will Sing a New Song to my God': Some Remarks on the Intertextuality of Judith 16. 1-17/ Schulamit Valler/ The Story of Jephthah's Daughter in the Midrash/ Phyllis Silverman Kramer/ Jephthah's Daughter: A Thematic Approach to the Narrative as seen in Selected Rabbinic Exegesis and in Artwork/ Carol Smith/ Delilah : A Suitable Case for (Feminist) Treatment?/ Renate Jost/ God of Love/ God of Vengeance, or Samson's ‘Prayer for Vengeance'/ Illsa Müllner/ Lethal Differences: Sexual Violence as Violence Against Others in Judges 19/ Alice Bach/ Rereading the Body Politic: Women, Violence and Judges 21/ Bibliography/ Index of References/ Index of Authors