Contents

• Preface
  
  
• Introduction: The Price of Rubies: The Weight of Old Testament Women in Western Literature
  Raymond-Jean Frontain
  
  
• Angel Narrators and Biblical Women: The Fluid Voices of Uncanonical Readings
  Jan Wojcik
  
  
• The Gnostic Eve
  Pheme Perkins
  
  
• Rachel and Leah: Biblical Tradition and the Third Dream of Dante's Purgatorio
  Jayne Blankenship
  
  
• Job's Wife, Walter's Wife, and the Wife of Bath
  Ann W. Astell
  
  
• Holofernes' Textual Impotence: Discourse vs. Representation in Du Bartas' La Judit
  Catharine Randall Coats
  
  
• Jephthah's Daughter: The Parts Ophelia Plays
  Nona Fienberg
  
  
• "An Immortality Rather than a Life": Milton and the Concubine of Judges 19-21
  Louise Simons
  
  
• Dinah and the Comedy of Castration in Sterne's Tristram Shandy
  Raymond-Jean Frontain
  
  
• The Genealogy of Ruth: From Harvester to Fallen Woman in Nineteenth-Century England
  Eve Walsh Stoddard
  
  
• God's Women: Victorian American Readings of Old Testament Heroines
  Mary De Jong
  
  
• "Unique and Irreplaceable": Margaret Laurence's Hagar
  Rosalie Murphy Baum
  
  
• Epilogue: The Recovery of Gender
  Jan Wojcik
  
  
• Contributors
  
  
• Index