Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: A Question of Silence -- 1. "All Israel" and the "Inclusive Ideology of Identity" in Chronicles -- Part I: Feminism, Psychoanalysis, and the Hebrew Bible: "Introducing" Luce Irigaray -- Chapter 1 "The Monopoly of the Origin" and the Mute Foundation of Psychoanalysis: The Theoretical Interventions of Luce Irigaray -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Specularization of Woman-Mother in Philosophy -- 3. The Lacanian Universe -- 4. Psychoanalysis, the Economy of the Same, and the Monopoly of the Origin -- 5. The Murder of the Mother and the Forgetting of Female Ancestries -- 6. Conclusion -- Chapter 2 Remembering the Forgotten Mother: Engaging with Chronicles in an Irigarayan Mode -- 1. Introduction: The Task of Analysis -- 2. Method or Mode? An "Era of Knowledge Already Over" or "the Era of the Spirit and the Bride?" -- 3. The Praticable as Nuptial Tool -- 4. Reading Silence -- 5. Speaking Silence Poetically -- 6. Conclusion: Going into Analysis "as Woman" with the Book of Chronicles -- Part II: Our Production of a Past, in the Present of Analysis: Engaging with the Book of Chronicles -- Chapter 3 Who Begets Whom? Disavowing the Maternal Body: 1 Chronicles 1-9 -- 1. According to You (1)… Shall We Begin at a Beginning? -- 2. Birth Pangs? -- 3. An Intriguing Inclusion on your Part -- 4. From Edom to Israel, a Sharp Turn? -- 5. A Smooth Production Line -- 6. The Cracks Are Starting to Show -- 7. Father → Son? -- 8. The Passive of David -- 9. Discontinuity -- 10. Summary Analysis -- 11. Conclusion -- Chapter 4 The Debt-Free Masculine Subject: The Repressed Maternal Body in 1 Chronicles 10-2 Chronicles 36 -- 1. According to You (II)… Shall We Begin Again? -- 2. Ideal Israel Born of Man -- 3. A Body in Bits and Pieces: The Murder of the (M)other? -- 4. From Father to Son, a Blessed Machine.

5. Double-Sexing Sacred Space: The Temple in Chronicles -- 6. "Silencing" the Father? -- 7. Return of the Repressed: The Three Diseased Kings of Chronicles -- 8. The Problematic Representation of the Mother -- 9. Conclusion -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Introduction -- Part I -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Part II -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Bibliography -- Indexes -- Index of References -- Index of Authors.