Festschrift for Luise Schottroff.

"A Michael Glazier book."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Your People Shall Be My People, and Your God My God." The Shared Life of Ruth and Naomi as a Model for Women Transgressing Intercultural Boundaries / Christiane Rosener -- Living with the Torah. A Conversation with Rabbi Beruriah / Stefanie Muller -- "I Am a Handmaid of the Living God!" The Apostle Thecla and the Consequences of Transgression / Beate Wehn -- Paul: Walking the Line Between Traditions and Ages / Claudia Janssen -- Living Water: Elements of a Feminist Proclamation According to John 4 / Marlene Crusemann -- Peter: A Transgressor in His Own Time / Dagmar Henze -- The Slave Woman's Challenge to Peter / Irene Dannemann -- Domitia, Marcia, and the Nameless Smuggler: Pearl Dealers in the Roman Empire / Sigrid Lampe-Densky -- The Agunah, the Bound Wife: A Transgressive Woman in Jewish Law and Her Significance for Early Christian Communities / Luzia Sutter Rehmann -- "Do Justice for Me!" / Sigrun Wetzlaugk -- Life Calls for Triumph and Celebration / Ivoni Richter Reimer -- "Women's Movements" and "Women's Theology." Social Change in South Korea between Tradition and Postmodernity / Choon-Ho You-Martin -- On Getting Out of One's Skin: Depictions of White Femininity in Film / Eske Wollrad -- "Dynamis and Womanpower." An Investigation of the Concept of dynamis in the Gospels and Paul / Ulrike Metternich -- "What we will be has not yet been revealed." An Archaeology of Seeing in John 9 / Martina S. Gnadt -- Protecting and Holding: Pastoral Companionship for Cancer Patients in a Multidisciplinary Team / Hanna Kreisel-Liebermann -- Written in Their Bodies: On the Significance of Rituals in Caring for AIDS Patients / Andrea Bieler -- God's Answer to Job / Wilhelm Schwendemann -- Problem Girls: A Transgressive Reading of the Parable of the Ten Virgins (Matthew 25:1-13) / Bettina Eltrop.