Abbreviations/ List of Contributors/ Preface/ Introduction/ Part I/ In General/ Roland E. Murphy/ Wisdom and Creation/ Part II/ Wisdom Literature/ Gerlinde Baumann/ A Figure with Many Facets: The Literary and Theological Functions of Personified Wisdom in Proverbs 1-9/ Alice Ogden Bellis/ The Gender and Motives of the Wisdom Teacher in Proverbs 7/ Christl Maier/ Conflicting Attractions/ Parental Wisdom and the ‘Strange Woman' in Proverbs 1-9/ Eric S. Christianson/ Qoheleth the ‘Old Boy' and Qoheleth the ‘New Man': Misogyny, the Womb and a Paradox in Ecclesiastes/ Carole R. Fontaine/ ‘Many Devices' (Qoheleth 7.23-8.1): Qoheleth, Misogyny, and the Malleus Maleficarum/ Brian B. Noonan/ Wisdom Literature among the Witchmongers/ Christl Maier and Silvia Schroer/ What About Job? Questioning the Book of ‘The Righteous Sufferer'/ Sidnie White Crawford/ Lady Wisdom and Dame Folly at Qumran/ Ross S. Kraemer/ Aseneth as Wisdom/ Part III/ Feminists Read the Psalms/ Ulrike Bail/ ‘O God, hear my prayer': Psalm 55 and Violence against Women/ Silvia Schroer/ ‘Under the Shadow of your Wings': The Metaphor of God's Wings in the Psalms. Exodus 19.4. Deuteronomy 32.11 and Malachi 3.20, as Seen through the Perspectives of Feminism and the History of Religion/ Beth LaNeel Tanner/ Hearing the Cries Unspoken: An Intertextual Feminist Reading of Psalm 109/ Bibliography/ Index of References/ Index of Authors