This sparkling new collection includes articles by Judith Hadley, Esther Fuchs, Renate Jost, Rainer Kessler, Gerlinde Baumann, Mary Shields, Erin Runions, Tamar Kamionkowski, Ulrike Sals, Julia M. O'Brien, Mayer Gruber, H. Von Deventer and Emily Sampson. These essays revisit the figure of the Goddess, redefine female prophet(esse)s, consider Yahweh as a violent husband, explore vaious aspects of eroticism in prophet literature and discuss how to say 'no' to a prophet. In the section on Daniel the Obtuse Foreign Ruler is viewed from the perspective of both feminism and humour, while Belshazzar's mother is proposed as another 'wise queen'. There is also a tribute to the nineteenth century translation of Julia E. Smith.
