Gods, goddesses, and the women who serve them

Part One: Goddesses

1. "And the Women Knead Dough": The Worship of the Queen of Heaven in Sixth-Century Judah

2. Asherah, the West Semitic Goddess of Spinning and Weaving?

3. The Women of the Bible and of Ancient Near Eastern Myth: The Case of the Levite's pîlegeš

Part Two: Priests and Prophets

4. Why Is Miriam Also among the Prophets? (And Is Zipporah among the Priests?)

5. The Mother of Eshmunazor, Priest of Astarte: A Study of Her Cultic Role

6. Priestesses, Purity, and Parturition

Part Three: Queen Mothers

7. The Queen Mother and the Cult in Ancient Israel

8. The Queen Mother and the Cult in the Ancient Near East

Part Four: Women and Worship

9. At Home with the Goddess

10. Women and the Worship of Yahweh in Ancient Israel

Bibliography

Indexes.