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/I Creation and Paradise Revisited/ MaryPhil Korsak/ ...et GENETRIX/ Ronald A.Simkins/ Gender Construction in the Yahwist Creation Myth/ Diane M. Sharon/ The Doom of Paradise:Literary Patterns in Accounts of Paradise and Mortality in the Hebrew Bible andthe Ancient Near East/ II Mal(e)practices/ IlonaN. Rashkow/ Daddy-Dearest and the 'Invisible Spirit of the Wine'/ Lyn M. Bechtel/ A Feminist Reading ofGenesis 19.1-11/ Carol Delaney/ Abrahamand the Seeds of Patriarchy/ SusanneScholz/ Through Whose Eyes? A 'Right' Reading of Genesis 34/ Mayer I. Gruber/ Gebesis 21.12: A NewReading of an Ambiguous Text/ III Female Modes/ Danna Nolan Fewell/ Changing the Subject: Retelling the Story ofHagar the Egyptian/ Phyllis SilvermanKramer/ The Dismissal of Hagar in Five Art Works of the Sixteenth andSeventeenth Centuries/ Phyllis SilvermanKramer/ Biblical Women that Come in Pairs: The Use of Female Pairs as aLiterary Device in the Hebrew Bible/ J.E. Lapsley/ The Voice of Rachel: Resistance and Polyphony in Genesis 31.14-35/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/I Creation and Paradise Revisited/ MaryPhil Korsak/ ...et GENETRIX/ Ronald A.Simkins/ Gender Construction in the Yahwist Creation Myth/ Diane M. Sharon/ The Doom of Paradise:Literary Patterns in Accounts of Paradise and Mortality in the Hebrew Bible andthe Ancient Near East/ II Mal(e)practices/ IlonaN. Rashkow/ Daddy-Dearest and the 'Invisible Spirit of the Wine'/ Lyn M. Bechtel/ A Feminist Reading ofGenesis 19.1-11/ Carol Delaney/ Abrahamand the Seeds of Patriarchy/ SusanneScholz/ Through Whose Eyes? A 'Right' Reading of Genesis 34/ Mayer I. Gruber/ Gebesis 21.12: A NewReading of an Ambiguous Text/ III Female Modes/ Danna Nolan Fewell/ Changing the Subject: Retelling the Story ofHagar the Egyptian/ Phyllis SilvermanKramer/ The Dismissal of Hagar in Five Art Works of the Sixteenth andSeventeenth Centuries/ Phyllis SilvermanKramer/ Biblical Women that Come in Pairs: The Use of Female Pairs as aLiterary Device in the Hebrew Bible/ J.E. Lapsley/ The Voice of Rachel: Resistance and Polyphony in Genesis 31.14-35/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/I Creation and Paradise Revisited/ MaryPhil Korsak/ ...et GENETRIX/ Ronald A.Simkins/ Gender Construction in the Yahwist Creation Myth/ Diane M. Sharon/ The Doom of Paradise:Literary Patterns in Accounts of Paradise and Mortality in the Hebrew Bible andthe Ancient Near East/ II Mal(e)practices/ IlonaN. Rashkow/ Daddy-Dearest and the 'Invisible Spirit of the Wine'/ Lyn M. Bechtel/ A Feminist Reading ofGenesis 19.1-11/ Carol Delaney/ Abrahamand the Seeds of Patriarchy/ SusanneScholz/ Through Whose Eyes? A 'Right' Reading of Genesis 34/ Mayer I. Gruber/ Gebesis 21.12: A NewReading of an Ambiguous Text/ III Female Modes/ Danna Nolan Fewell/ Changing the Subject: Retelling the Story ofHagar the Egyptian/ Phyllis SilvermanKramer/ The Dismissal of Hagar in Five Art Works of the Sixteenth andSeventeenth Centuries/ Phyllis SilvermanKramer/ Biblical Women that Come in Pairs: The Use of Female Pairs as aLiterary Device in the Hebrew Bible/ J.E. Lapsley/ The Voice of Rachel: Resistance and Polyphony in Genesis 31.14-35/Bibliography/ Index of References/ Index of Authors