Esther : folklore, wisdom, feminism, and authority Susan Niditch -- An oriental beauty parlour : an analysis of Esther 2.8-81 in the Hebrew, the Septuagint and the second Greek text / Kristin De Troyer -- Looking at Esther through the looking glass / Athalya Brenner -- Mirror, mirror in the text : reflections on reading and rereading / Alice Bach -- Tracing Esther's beginnings / Timothy K. Beal -- Esther : the incomplete emancipation of a queen / Bea Wyler -- Esther and the queen's throne / Zefira Gitay -- Honor and shame in Esther / Lillian R. Klein -- Esther revisited : an aggadic approach / Leila Leah Bronner -- Esther's story / Diane Wolkstein -- Sacrifice and salvation : otherness and domestication in the book of Judith / Amy-Jill Levine -- Judith as alternative leader : a rereading of Judith 7-31 / Jan Willem van Henten -- Head hunting : Judith' on the cutting edge of knowledge / Mieke Bal -- The accused : Susanna and her readers / Jennifer A. Glancy -- Hemmed in on every side' : Jews and women in the book of Susanna / Amy-Jill Levine.