Introduction -- A Genealogy for Reception History -- Bedrock Concerns: Exegetical Credibility, Context, Function, and Reader -- More Recent Developments Within Reception Studies -- The Old and the New -- Then and Now -- Theory of Reception in this Reception History -- Technologies of the Christian Self: Anathema, Exemplum, and Identity -- Organization of Readings -- Note on Translations -- Rapitur Christus: Becoming Christians -- An Apocryphal Tradition and a Jewish-Christian Canaanite Woman -- Early Polemical Interpretation: Tertullian and Christian Orthodoxy -- Early Christian Commentary: Exegesis as Catechesis and Paranesis -- Origen: In Matthaeum -- Hilary of Poitiers: In Matthaeum -- Hilary of Poitiers: Tractatus Mysteriorum -- Ephrem of Nisibis: Commentary on the Gospel -- Didymus the Blind: In Zacharium -- Jerome: Commentarium in Matthaeum -- Quodvultdeus: Liber promissionum et praedictorum Dei -- Conclusion -- Sermons and Homilies: Textual Communities and the Call to Lived Narrative -- Ambrose: Easter Sermon and Sermon on Dives and Lazarus -- Augustine: Sermon 77 and Sermon 121 -- John Chrysostom: Homily 52 -- Conclusion -- Necessary Others in Matthew 15:21-28: Race, Class, and Gender -- The Racial-Ethnic Other: Adversus Judaeos -- Ishodad of Merv: Commentary on Matthew -- Theophylact: Exposition of the Gospel of Matthew -- Chrysostom: Adversus Judaeos and Homiliae in Matthaeum -- Epiphanius Scholasticus: Interpretatio Evangeliorum -- John Hutton: The Proposal of Jesus -- Hugh Martin: Jesus and the Gentile Dogs -- The Female Other: Mulieres Homines Non Esse -- Gil Vicente: Auto da Cananeia -- Anon: Mulieries homines non esse -- Simon Gedik: Defensus sexus mulieribus.

Arcangela Tarabotti: Che le donne siano della spezie degli uomini -- William Jay: Lectures on Female Scripture Characters -- John Pilch: Jesus in His Middle-Eastern Context -- Clay Nelson: messiahs are from mars -- syrophoenician women are from venus -- Anon: Encuentros con Jesus -- Loren Rossen: The Shameless Hussy of Mk 7:24-30/Mt 15:21-28 -- Steven Kurtz: Notes on This Week's Lectionary Text -- The Impoverished Other: Masters, Men, and Mothers -- H. H. Carlisle: The Cry of the Children -- Conclusion -- Transforming Selves: Reversal, ?eta???a, and Spiritual Ascent -- The Soul Encounters the Divine -- Anon: Two Anomoean Homilies -- Jerome: Vita Hilarionis -- Human Faith, Ascetical Striving, and Divine Grace -- Plumbing the Canaanite Heart. John Cassian: Conlationes patrum in scetica eremo -- Isaiah of Scetis: Logoi -- Barsanuphius of Gaza: Letter to a Wounded Monk -- Medieval Monastics and Mystics: Human Sinner, Holy Community, and Spiritual Ascent -- Anon: Rule of the Master within Benedict of Aniane's Codex Regularum -- Bernard of Clairvaux: Sermons 22 and 66 -- Guerric D'Igny: Fourth Sermon on the Assumption of the Blessed Mary -- Julien of Vézelay: Sermon 17 -- Guigues Le Chartreux: Scala Claustralium -- Richard Rolle: Melos Amoris -- Gregory of Palamas: 43rd Homily -- Conclusion -- "Not the Gift but the Giver:" Protestant Readers from the Reformation to the Early 20th Century -- Luther and Calvin -- Martin Luther: Predigt am Sonntag Reminiscere and Auss den andern Sontag nun der fasten Euangelion -- John Calvin: Commentarius in Harmoniam Evangelicam -- British and American Protestants Interpret the Canaanite Woman -- John Trapp: Commentary on the Old and New Testaments -- Matthew Poole: Annotations on the Holy Bible.

Adam Clarke: The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments -- Francis Augustus Cox: What Christianity Has Done for Women -- Phillips Brooks: The Silence of Christ -- Conclusion -- Avatars of the Canaanite Woman: Lived Narratives or Rhetorical Performances? -- Claiming the Canaanite Woman's Wisdom and Authority -- Dhuoda of Septimania: Manual For My Son -- Communal Identification through Prayer -- Anon: Book of Hours of Sinai -- Thomas Cranmer: Anglican Prayer of Humble Access -- The Canaanite Woman in "Private" Prayer -- Gregory of Narek: Book of Lamentations -- Anglican Devotional Texts -- Thomas Bentley: The Monument of Matrones -- Anne Wheathill: A handfull of holesome (though homelie) hearbs -- Conclusion -- Epilogue -- Appendix -- The Many Faces of the Canaanite Woman -- Bibliography -- Index.