Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- A Select Bibliography of the Works of Carol L. Meyers -- Introduction: A Teacher and Scholar's Appreciation -- Charles E. Carter -- Introduction: A Colleague's Appreciation -- Susan Ackerman -- Hannah's Tears -- Susan Ackerman -- Women, Law, and Legal Procedure in Ancient Israel -- James P. Ashmore -- Nationalist Narratives and Biblical Memory -- Cynthia M. Baker -- When It Both Is and Is Not Rape: Gender Constructions in 2 Samuel 13:1-22 -- Karla G. Bohmbach -- Speaking as "Any Foolish Woman": Ms. Job in the History of Reception -- Rhonda Burnette-Bletsch -- Numbers 5:11-31 -- Women in Second Temple Judah and the Law of the Controlling Priest -- Claudia V. Camp -- "There Is Much Wisdom in Her": The Matriarchs in the Qumran Library -- Sidnie White Crawford -- Poor but Wise (Qoheleth 9:13-16) -- James L. Crenshaw -- Reading the Bible as Agrarian Literature -- Ellen Davis -- Israelite Women as "Ritual Experts": Orthodoxy or Orthopraxis? -- William G. Dever -- Structure and Origin of the Early Israelite and Iroquois Confederacies -- Norman K. Gottwald -- The Place of Biblical Studies in the University Curriculum -- Beyond the Religious/Secular Divide -- Sandie Gravett -- Bargaining with Patriarchy in the Book of Ruth -- F. V. Greifenhagen -- Gendered Sectarians: Envisioning Women (and Men) at Qumran -- Maxine L. Grossman -- Translating Women -- The Perils of Gender-Inclusive Translation of the New Testament -- Ross S. Kraemer and Jennifer Eyl -- Ethnicity, Culture, and Religion in Artifact and Text -- The Emergence of Complex Common Judaism -- Eric M. Meyers -- Plaque Figurines and the Relationship between Canaanite and Egyptian Women in the Late Bronze II -- Beth Alpert Nakhai -- The Story of David and Goliath from the Perspective of the Study of Oral Traditions -- Raymond F. Person Jr.

I Sing the Body Politic: Stillborn Desire and the Birth of Israel in Judges 5 -- Anathea Portier-Young.