Gender and law: an introduction / Tivka Frymer-Kensky -- Women and psalms: toward an understanding of the role of women's prayer in the Israelite cult / Marc Zvi Brettler -- The 'whore' of Ezekiel 16: the impact of ramifications of gender-specific metaphors in light of biblical law and divine judgment / Carol J. Dempsey -- Virginity in the Bible / Tivka Frymer-Kensky -- Honor and shame in gender-related legal situations in the Hebrew Bible / Victor H. Matthews -- A riposte form in the song of Deborah / Geoffrey P. Miller -- False weights in the scales of biblical justice? Different views of women from patriarchal hierarchy of religious equality in the Book of Deuteronomy / Eckart Otto -- Wives and daughters, bond and free: views of women in the slave laws of Exodus 21.2-11 / Carolyn Pressler -- Gender and law: a case study from Ancient Mesopotamia / Martha T. Roth -- 'Lest he die in the battle and another man take her': violence and the construction of gender in the laws of Deuteronomy 20-22 / Harold C. Washington -- The female slave / Raymond Westbrook.