TABLE OF CONTENTS

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. TABLE OF CONTENTS III
3. PREFACE V
4. TIKVA FRYMER-KENSKY’S LEGACY
5. IN THE WAKE OF MY MOTHER 3
6. TIKVA FRYMER-KENSKY AND HER STUDIES IN BIBLE AND FEMINIST CRITICISM: AN ASSESSMENT 11
7. IN THE WAKE OF THE WAKE 19
8. IN THE WAKE OF THE GODDESSES : THEOLOGY, THE HUMANITIES, AND THE EDUCATION OF SEMINARIANS 31
9. ASSYRIOLOGY
10. ANCIENT NEAR EASTERN VAGINA DIALOGS AND THE SEX OMENS FROM MESOPOTAMIA 43
11. NOT JUST HOUSEWIVES: GODDESSES AFTER THE OLD BABYLONIAN PERIOD 59
12. NOTES ON NEBUCHADNEZZAR’S 37^TH YEAR 71
13. GENDER MATTERS IN ENÁMA ELIŠ 85
14. DO DIVINE STRUCTURES OF GENDER MIRROR MORTAL STRUCTURES OF GENDER? 103
15. BIBLICAL STUDIES
16. THE CONCEPT OF “IMPURE BIRTH” IN 5TH CENTURY ATHENS AND JUDEA 121
17. THE BIBLICAL “HOUSE OF THE MOTHER” AND THE BROKERING OF MARRIAGE: ECONOMIC RECIPROCITY AMONG NATAL SIBLINGS 143
18. A REASSESSMENT OF TIKVA FRYMERKENSKY’S ASHERAH 171
19. ANOTHER DEMAND FOR A KING: WOMEN IN THE NARRATIVE OF DAVID’S RISE 181
20. THE FIRST ORIENTALIST? – FANTASY AND FOREIGNNESS IN THE BOOK OF ESTHER 199
21. BIBLIOGRAPHY 215
22. INDICES 217