Table of Contents

Contents 1. Shocked and Awed on the Road to Fallujah 2. Eyes of Flesh: The Bible, Gender and Human Rights 3. Watching out for the Watchmen (Song of Songs 5:8): How I Hold Myself Accountable 4. The Seeds of Subordination: Calculating the Status of Women in the Bible and the Ancient Near East 5. The Abusive Bible: On the Use of Feminist Method in Pastoral Contexts 6. 'Many Devices' (Qoheleth 7.23-8.1): Qoheleth, Misogyny and the Hammer of Witches 7. Two Peoples, One Book: Anti-Judaism in Feminist Readings 8. Strange Bedfellows: Scriptures, Human Rights and the Seven Principles of Unitarian Universalism 9. The Women's United Nations Report Network Study: Evaluating and Understanding Gender Discrimination in Religious Traditions

About the Author

Carole Fontaine is John Taylor Professor of Biblical Theology and History, Andover Newton Theological School, Newton Centre, Massachusetts.