Introduction / Athalya Brenner
I. Ruth A. Aspects of the Ruth scroll
The Book of Ruth : a 'feminist' commentary to the Torah? / Irmtraud Fischer
Ruth, the model emigrée : mourning and the symbolic politics of immigration / Bonnie Honig
Facing the other : Ruth-the-cat in medieval Jewish illuminations / Carole R. Fontaine
Ruth and Naomi : two Biblical figures revived among rural women in germany / dr Ursula Silber
'Women of the neighborhood' (Ruth 4.17) : informal female networks in ancient Israel / Carol Meyers
B. Ruth papers, Orpah papers : papers delivered at the 'Semiotics and exegesis' Session, American Society of Biblical Literature, November, 1997
The sign of Orpah : reading Ruth through native eyes / Laura E. Donaldson
The unpublished letters of Orpah to Ruth / Musa W. Dube
A son is born to naomi : a harvest for Israel / Judith E. McKinlay
Ruth as foreign worker and the politics of exogamy / Athalya Brenner
Culture, ethics and identity in reading Ruth : a response to Donaldson, Dube, McKinlay and Brenner / Roland Boer
II. Ruth and Esther : mothers and daughters
The invisible relationship made visible : Biblical mothers and daughters / Leila Leah Bronner
Black mother women and daughters : signifying female-divine relationships in the Hebrew Bible and African-American mother-daughter short stories / Cheryl A. Kirk-Duggan
Lots of writing / Mieke Bal
Esther : a new interpretation of the Joseph story in the fight against anti-Semitism and sexism / Klara Butting.
