Includes bibliographical references and index.

Genesis 1-11 : the primordial history / Helen Schüngel-Straumann --
Genesis 12-50 : the story of Israel's origins as a women's story / Irmtraud Fischer --
Exodus : the meaning of liberation from "his" perspective / Susanne Scholz --
Leviticus : the ABC of creation / Gerburgis Feld --
Numbers : on boundaries / Ursula Rapp --
Deuteronomy : rights and justice for women in the law / Angelika Engelmann --
Joshua : tradition and justice : women's share in the inheritance / Kerstin Ulrich --
Judges : encoded messages to women / J. Cheryl Exum --
Ruth : border crossings of two women in patriarchal society / Ina Johanne Petermann (Batmartha) --
Books of Samuel : women at the center of Israel's history / Ilse Müllner --
Books of Kings : images of women without women's reality / Kyung Sook Lee --
Books of Chronicles : in the vestibule of women / Marie-Theres Wacker --
Ezra and Nehemiah : the return of the others / Christiane Karrer-Grube --
Esther : about resistance against anti-Semitism and sexism / Klara Butting --
Job : questioning the book of the righteous sufferer / Christl Maier and Silvia Schroer --
The Psalms : "who is speaking may be all that matters" / Ulrike Bail --
Proverbs : how feminine wisdom comes into being / Christl Maier --
Qoheleth (Ecclesiastes) : man alone, without woman / Kumiko Kato --
Song of Songs : polyphony of love / Athalya Brenner --
Isaiah : the book of female metaphors / Irmtraud Fischer --
Jeremiah : when wise wailing women and prophetic pornography show the way into exile / Angela Bauer-Levesque --
Lamentations : Zion's cry in affliction / Maria Häusl --
Ezekiel : male prophecy with female imagery / Renate Jost and Elke Seifert --
Daniel : not counting women and children / Ilse von Loewenclau --
Hosea : the God-identified man and the woman (women) Israel / Marie-Theres Wacker --
Joel : God's self-justification / Marie-Theres Wacker --
Amos : the truth is concrete / Marie-Theres Wacker --
Obadiah : brother Edom / Marie-Theres Wacker --
Jonah : the Jonah experience : for women too? / Maria Kassel --
Micah : call for justice : hope for all / Sophia Bietenhard --
Nahum : the just God as sexual predator / Gerlinde Baumann --
Habakkuk : a political night-prayer / Ulrike Bail --
Zephaniah : or, the threefold Jerusalem / Ulrike Bail --
Haggai and Zechariah : a new temple : new life for all / Beate Schmidtgen --
Malachi : to the glory of God, the Father? / Marie-Theres Wacker --
1 Maccabees : women's existence at the edges of the text / Claudia Rakel --
2 Maccabees : the teaching of history / Christine Gerber --
Tobit : a lesson marriage and family in the diaspora / Helen Schüngel-Straumann --
Judith : about a beauty who is not what she pretends to be / Claudia Rakel --
Baruch : mail from distant shores / Marie-Theres Wacker --
Sirach (Ecclesiasticus) : on the difficult relation between divine wisdom and real women in an androcentric document / Angelika Strotmann --
Wisdom : an example of Jewish intercultural theology / Silvia Schroer --
4 Ezra : on the struggle for new life, the time that is being fulfilled, and the transformation of the earth (2 Esdras 3-14) / Luzia Sutter Rehmann --
Joseph and Aseneth : perfect bride or heavenly prophetess / Angela Standhartinger --
Testament of Job : Job, Dinah, and their daughters / Luzia Sutter Rehmann --
Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs : how men use power / Renate Kirchhoff --
Gospel of Matthew : Jewish-Christian churches in opposition to the Pax Romana / Martina S. Gnadt --
Gospel of Mark : women as true disciples of Jesus / Monika Fander --
Gospel of Luke : the humbled will be lifted up / Claudia Janssen and Regene Lamb --
Gospel of John : spaces for women / Ruth Habermann --
Acts of the Apostles : looking forward and looking back / Ivoni Richter Reimer --
Romans : a feminist reading / Elsa Tamez --
1 Corinthians : how freedom comes to be / Luise Schottroff --
2 Corinthians : sacrificing difference for unity / Carline Vander Stichele --
Galatians : on discomfort about gender and other problems of otherness / Brigitte Kahl --
Ephesians : community spirit and conservative values as survival strategies in the churches of Asia Minor / Helga Melzer-Keller --
Philippians : lifting up those who have been put down / Sheila Briggs --
Colossians : the origin of the table of household duties / Angela Standhartiger --
1 Thessalonians : opposing death by building community / Jutta Bickmann --
2 Thessalonians : hope in God's just judgment / Marlene Crüsemann --
Pastoral Epistles : a tamed Paul : domesticated women / Ulrike Wagener --
Philemon : a reading under Apphia's critical eyes / Sabine Bieberstein --
Hebrews : strangers in the world / Ulrike Wagener --
James : conflict about the way of justice / Irene Dannemann --
1 Peter : survival strategies for harried communities / Irene Foulkes --
2 Peter : guideposts for the godly life / Irene Foulkes --
Letters of John / Kerstin Ruoff --
Jude : the implications of feminist reading / Ruth Anne Reese --
Revelation : inspirations from Patmos / Luzia Sutter Rehmann --
The story of Thecla : apostle between fiction and reality / Anne Jensen --
Acts of Xanthippe, Polyxena, and Rebecca : or, three women and two lionesses / Irene Dannemann --
Gospel of Mary : Mary Magdelene as beloved disciple and representative of Jesus / Judith Hartenstein and Silke Petersen --
Gospel of Thomas : early Christian traditions about women disciples of Jesus : or, Mary Magdalene becomes male / Judith Hartenstein and Silke Petersen --
Shepherd of Hermas : being enticed into conversion in the erotic church of Sophia / Ulrike Auga --
Gospel of Peter : a female disciple of the Lord and her female friends / Caroline Vander Stichele --
Protevangelium of James : God's story goes on / Bettina Eltrop and Claudia Janssen.