Acknowledgements/ Abbreviations/ Athalya Brenner/ On Reading the Hebrew Bible as a Feminist Woman: Introduction to the Series/ Athalya Brenner/ On Feminist Criticism of the Song of Songs/ Part I/ Voices From The Past/ Elizabeth Cady Stanton/ The Women's Movement and the Bible/ G. D. Ginsburg/ The Importance of the Book/ Elizabeth Cady Stanton/ The Song of Solomon/ Part II/ Female Authorship and Female Culture/ S.D. Goitein/ The Song of Songs: A Female Composition/ Jonneke Bekkenkamp and Fokkelien Van Dijk/ The Canon of the Old Testament and Wonen's Cultural Tradtions/ Athalya Brenner/ Women Poets and Authors/ Part III/ Intertextual Connections and the Critique of Patriarchy/ Phyllis Trible/ Love's Lyrics Redeemed/ Marvin H.Pope/ The Song of Songs and Women's Liberation: An ‘Outsider's' Critique/ Francis Landy/ Two Versions of Paradise/ T. Drorah Setel/ Prophets and Pornography: Female Sexual Imagery in Hosea/ Fokkelien Van Dijk-Hemmes/ The Imagination of Power and the Power of Imagination/ Part IV/ Structure and Discourse/ M. Deckers/ The Structure of the Song of Songs and the Centrality of nepeš/ Carol Meyers/ Gender Imagery in the Song of Songs/ Part V/ Gender Interpretation and the Case of the WASFS/ Richard N. Soulen/ The wasfs of Song of Songs and the Hermeneutic/ Marica Falk/ The wasf/ Athalya Brenner/ ‘Come back, come back to the Shulammite' (Song of Songs 7.1-10): A parody of the wasf Genre/ Part VI/ In Retrospect/ Francis Landy/ Mishneh Torah: A Response to Myself and Phyllis Trible/ J. William Whedbee/ Paradox and Parody in the Song of Solomon: Towards a Cosmic Reading of the Most Sublime Song/ Athalya Brenner/ Afterword/ Bibliography