On Gendering Texts is a wonderful book in a field that demonstrates its maturity by this publication. It discusses the important and traditional issue of authorship. Whereas the idea of a unique and divinely inspired biblical author has long been abandoned, the issue of authorship itself has not. The possibility that women might have contributed to the production of the Bible has not been taken seriously and yet the idea that everything is male unless otherwise proven is hardly acceptable. What can one do? The two authors of this book shrewdly displace the question. Rather than...

This volume is a representative collection of the groundbreaking and influential work in feminist biblical interpretation by the late Fokkelien van Dijk-Hemmes. The essays document Van Dijk's development and constitute a valuable introduction to feminist thought.