Foreword to the First German Edition | p. vii |
Foreword to the Second German Edition | p. viii |
The "Fathers" and the Beginnings of the People-An Introduction to Israel's Ancestors | p. 1 |
Sarah, Hagar, and Abraham: Scenes From a Marriage Under the Promise | p. 7 |
Diagnosis: "Barren!"-Yhwh promises many descendants | p. 7 |
Sarah's abandonment and rescue | p. 9 |
A life between promise and fulfillment | p. 13 |
A human attempt to fulfill the promise | p. 14 |
Hagar: From oppression to liberation-and back again | p. 17 |
The story of a climber | p. 20 |
"Where is Sarah, your wife?" | p. 21 |
The alienation of female experience | p. 24 |
The abandonment of the old bearer of the promise | p. 28 |
The immunity of the prophet Abraham | p. 31 |
Isaac, the son who makes them laugh | p. 33 |
"Drive out this servant woman and her son!" | p. 35 |
"Sacrifice your son, your only son!" | p. 38 |
God tests the righteous | p. 43 |
A grave for Sarah | p. 45 |
Rebecca: A Strong Woman With a Colorless Husband | p. 47 |
A woman in the male family tree | p. 47 |
The bearer of the promise seeks a daughter-in-law | p. 48 |
Encounter at the well-this time without a bridegroom | p. 50 |
Rebecca's decision: "I will go!" | p. 52 |
"Who is that man?" | p. 54 |
Rebecca questions Yhwh | p. 54 |
A marriage between tenderness and betrayal | p. 56 |
The mother's favorite son | p. 59 |
Rebecca seeks a daughter-in-law | p. 63 |
Yhwh confirms Rebecca's choice | p. 64 |
Rachel and Leah: The Founders of the House of Israel | p. 66 |
The stone of opening, the stone of stumbling | p. 66 |
Seven years of service for the wrong bride | p. 68 |
Excursus: A Lesson in Marriage Law | p. 72 |
The man's love, or many children | p. 73 |
Two women who wrestled with God | p. 75 |
Love potions, homeopathy, and male sexuality for sale | p. 78 |
The family sticks together for the first time: Yhwh calls them to return home | p. 80 |
Again the danger of losing everything | p. 85 |
The man who wrestled with God | p. 86 |
Reunion with Esau: Rachel receives the greatest protection | p. 87 |
The desire for children, and death | p. 88 |
Dark Sides of the Family Chronicle | p. 91 |
The rape of Dinah-An insult to male honor? | p. 91 |
Excursus: A Lesson in Penal Law | p. 92 |
Don't trust anybody about marriage! | p. 95 |
The escalation of vengeance | p. 97 |
The story of Dinah in its canonical context | p. 98 |
Reuben breaks the taboo | p. 99 |
Kidnapping in the house of Jacob | p. 100 |
The betrayer grows old: The resume of his life | p. 102 |
Judah in the tradition of the line of promise | p. 103 |
Tamar is to remain a widow for life | p. 105 |
The prostitute at the gate | p. 107 |
"She is more just than I!" | p. 109 |
Tamar, the woman who founded the house of Judah | p. 111 |
Subversive Women at the Beginnings of the People in Egypt | p. 113 |
A little people becomes a "great nation" of the promise | p. 113 |
Oppression | p. 115 |
The midwives, Shiphrah and Puah | p. 116 |
From intimidation to genocide | p. 117 |
Women with civil courage: mother, sister, king's daughter | p. 118 |
The infancy story of Moses-or the beginnings of liberation through women's resistance? | p. 121 |
Women's learning communities and experiences in male society | p. 122 |
The horizon of experience for the ancestors and their God | p. 124 |
The call to liberate the people | p. 126 |
Naomi and Ruth: The Unconventional Women Ancestors of the Royal House of David | p. 129 |
Refugees from famine | p. 129 |
Naomi and her daughters-in-law | p. 130 |
Naomi and the women of Bethlehem | p. 133 |
Bread from the daughter-in-law | p. 134 |
Ruth and Boaz | p. 136 |
Creative interpretation of the levirate obligation | p. 137 |
A woman like Israel's ancestral women | p. 139 |
A daughter-in-law: worth more than seven sons! | p. 141 |
King David's great-grandmother | p. 142 |
Interpretation of the book of Ruth through its different locations in the canon | p. 143 |
The book of Ruth in messianic perspective | p. 145 |
Women Who Wrestled With God | p. 146 |
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