Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-269).
Introduction / Athalya Brenner -- Daughters and fathers in Genesis, or, What is wrong with this picture? / Ilona N. Rashkow -- Ỳou shall let every daughter live ́: a study of Exodus 1.8-2.10 / J. Cheryl Exum -- But if she be a daughter, she may live! : dàughters ánd sòns ín Exodus 1-2 / Jopie Siebert-Hommes -- Second thoughts about secondary characters : women in Exodus 1.8-2.10 / J. Cheryl Exum -- The will of the daughters / Ankie Sterring -- Sexual violence and Deuteronomic law / Carolyn Pressler -- On incest / Athalya Brenner -- Widows in the Hebrew Bible : a transactional approach / Frank S. Frick -- Blood discharge : on female im/purity in the priestly code and in biblical literature / Ilana Beér -- Bringing Miriam out of the shadows / Phyllis Trible -- Song of Moses, song of Miriam : who is seconding whom? / J. Gerald Janzen -- Some recent views on the presentation of the song of Miriam / Fokkelien van Dijk-Hemmes -- Miriam the musician / Carol Meyers -- Did Miriam talk too much? / Naomi Graetz -- With a song in her heart : listening to scholars listening for Miriam / Alice Bach -- An afterword : the Decalogue, am I an addressee? / Athalya Brenner.