Deborah's daughters gender politics and biblical interpretation

Acknowledgements ; Abbreviations ; List of Illustrations ; Introduction: Woman of Flames or Inflammatory Woman? ; 1 Domesticating Deborah: Disputes About Women's Leadership in Early Judaism and Christianity ; 2 Wife of Barak: Deborah in the Middle Ages ; 3 Judge Deborah and the Monstrous Regiment of Women: Sixteenth-Century Writers and the Prophetess ; 4 A "Heroick and Masculine-Spirited Championess": Deborah in Early Modern Gender Debates ; 5 Mothers in Israel: Suffragettes, Women Preachers, and Female Roles in the Nineteenth Century ; 6 A Fiery Woman: Deborah in the Twentieth and Early Twenty-First Centuries ; Conclusion: The Prophet Deborah in Jewish and Christian Imagination ; Notes ; Bibliography ; Index