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/ Athalya Brenner/ Introduction/ Part I/ Women as Vehicles for Historiography: Liminality and Anonymity/ Karla G. Shargent/ Living on the Edge: The Liminality of Daughters in Genesis to 2 Samuel/ Adele Reinhartz/ Anonymous Women and the Collapse of the Monarchy: A Study in Narrative Technique/ A Model Mother: Hannah/ Yairah Amit/ ‘Am I Not More Devoted To You Than Ten Sons?' (1 Samuel 1.8): Male and Female Interpretations/ Lillian R. Klein/ Hannah: Marginalized Victim and Social Redeemer/ Carol Meyers/ Hannah and her Sacrifice: Reclaiming Female Agency/ Part III/ Women and Monarchs/ Alice Bach/ The Pleasure of her Text/ Schulamit Valler/ King David and ‘his' Women: Biblical Stories and Talmudic Discussions/ Carole R. Fontaine/ The Bearing of Wisdom on the Shape of 2 Samuel 11-12 and 1 Kings 3/ Carole R. Fontaine/ A Response to ‘The bearing of Wisdom'/ Part IV/ Queen Mothers/ Zafrira Ben- Barak/ The Status and Right of the gebîrâ/ Ktizah Spanier/ The Queen Mother in the Judaen Royal Court: Maacah A Case Study/ Tina Pippin/ Jezebel Re-vamped/ Part V/ Female, Femaleness/ Prophets, Prophecy/ Jan Tarlin/ Toward a ‘Female' Reading of the Elijah Cycle: Ideology and Gender in the Interpretation of 1 Kings 17-19, 21 and 2 Kings 1-2.18/ Fokkelien Dijk-Hemmes/ The Great Women of Shunem and the Man of God: A Duel Interpretation of 2 Kings 4.8-37/ Diana Edelmann/ Huldah the Prophet- of Yahweh or Asherah?/ Epilogue/ Women in Later Historiography and History/ Tamara C. Eskenazi/ Out for the Shadows: Biblical Women in the Post-Exilic Era/ Bibliography

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/ Athalya Brenner/ Introduction/ Part I/ Women as Vehicles for Historiography: Liminality and Anonymity/ Karla G. Shargent/ Living on the Edge: The Liminality of Daughters in Genesis to 2 Samuel/ Adele Reinhartz/ Anonymous Women and the Collapse of the Monarchy: A Study in Narrative Technique/ A Model Mother: Hannah/ Yairah Amit/ ‘Am I Not More Devoted To You Than Ten Sons?' (1 Samuel 1.8): Male and Female Interpretations/ Lillian R. Klein/ Hannah: Marginalized Victim and Social Redeemer/ Carol Meyers/ Hannah and her Sacrifice: Reclaiming Female Agency/ Part III/ Women and Monarchs/ Alice Bach/ The Pleasure of her Text/ Schulamit Valler/ King David and ‘his' Women: Biblical Stories and Talmudic Discussions/ Carole R. Fontaine/ The Bearing of Wisdom on the Shape of 2 Samuel 11-12 and 1 Kings 3/ Carole R. Fontaine/ A Response to ‘The bearing of Wisdom'/ Part IV/ Queen Mothers/ Zafrira Ben- Barak/ The Status and Right of the gebîrâ/ Ktizah Spanier/ The Queen Mother in the Judaen Royal Court: Maacah A Case Study/ Tina Pippin/ Jezebel Re-vamped/ Part V/ Female, Femaleness/ Prophets, Prophecy/ Jan Tarlin/ Toward a ‘Female' Reading of the Elijah Cycle: Ideology and Gender in the Interpretation of 1 Kings 17-19, 21 and 2 Kings 1-2.18/ Fokkelien Dijk-Hemmes/ The Great Women of Shunem and the Man of God: A Duel Interpretation of 2 Kings 4.8-37/ Diana Edelmann/ Huldah the Prophet- of Yahweh or Asherah?/ Epilogue/ Women in Later Historiography and History/ Tamara C. Eskenazi/ Out for the Shadows: Biblical Women in the Post-Exilic Era/ Bibliography

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/ Athalya Brenner/ Introduction/ Part I/ Women as Vehicles for Historiography: Liminality and Anonymity/ Karla G. Shargent/ Living on the Edge: The Liminality of Daughters in Genesis to 2 Samuel/ Adele Reinhartz/ Anonymous Women and the Collapse of the Monarchy: A Study in Narrative Technique/ A Model Mother: Hannah/ Yairah Amit/ ‘Am I Not More Devoted To You Than Ten Sons?' (1 Samuel 1.8): Male and Female Interpretations/ Lillian R. Klein/ Hannah: Marginalized Victim and Social Redeemer/ Carol Meyers/ Hannah and her Sacrifice: Reclaiming Female Agency/ Part III/ Women and Monarchs/ Alice Bach/ The Pleasure of her Text/ Schulamit Valler/ King David and ‘his' Women: Biblical Stories and Talmudic Discussions/ Carole R. Fontaine/ The Bearing of Wisdom on the Shape of 2 Samuel 11-12 and 1 Kings 3/ Carole R. Fontaine/ A Response to ‘The bearing of Wisdom'/ Part IV/ Queen Mothers/ Zafrira Ben- Barak/ The Status and Right of the gebîrâ/ Ktizah Spanier/ The Queen Mother in the Judaen Royal Court: Maacah A Case Study/ Tina Pippin/ Jezebel Re-vamped/ Part V/ Female, Femaleness/ Prophets, Prophecy/ Jan Tarlin/ Toward a ‘Female' Reading of the Elijah Cycle: Ideology and Gender in the Interpretation of 1 Kings 17-19, 21 and 2 Kings 1-2.18/ Fokkelien Dijk-Hemmes/ The Great Women of Shunem and the Man of God: A Duel Interpretation of 2 Kings 4.8-37/ Diana Edelmann/ Huldah the Prophet- of Yahweh or Asherah?/ Epilogue/ Women in Later Historiography and History/ Tamara C. Eskenazi/ Out for the Shadows: Biblical Women in the Post-Exilic Era/ Bibliography