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A very sharply written introduction to feminist biblical interpretation, with a comprehensive cross-section of examples from the Hebrew Bible. It will serve quite well as a textbook for my upcoming "Women in the Bible"course next semester.

Melodic...with a deep, foreboding bass line that resonates with the uncanny.

David Foster Wallace is a brilliant essayist. Period. His writing is so rich, his voice so genuine, his observations so astute, and his perspectives so original, that any topic he turns his attention to becomes immediately and tremendously interesting.

Very, very mysterious, intriguing, indescribably subtle...

I'm really conflicted over whether or to what extent I like this book. I want to like it. I really want to like it. But it falls short, at times resorting to cheap maneuvers, at others leaping too swiftly & unconvincingly over gaps from one place to another without clear or meaningful connections. Yet, aspects of it are smart, original, & provocative. As for the theme, consider D. F. Wallace's Broom of the System.

I'm pretty conflicted over whether or to what extent I like this book. I want to like it. I really want to like it. But it falls short; at times by taking recourse to cheap maneuvers, at other times by leaping too swiftly and unconvincingly over odd gaps from one place to another without clear or suitably meaningful connections. And yet, things about it are incredibly smart, original, provocative.