Table of Contents:
  • An overview of female labor in the Hebrew Bible
  • The challenge of studying working women
  • Standing on the shoulders of our predecessors
  • Society's conditions affecting women's lives in ancient Israel
  • Female slaves and dependents, literal and ideological, in Israel
  • Hide and seek: miscellaneous women
  • Female workers related to the royal household
  • Prostitutes or "sex workers"
  • Reassessing the social location of female in DtrH.