Acknowledgments Foreword by Rabbi Irving (Yitz) Greenberg IntroductionPART I. Women in the Torah Introduction Power and Powerlessness Male and Female Were They Created: Eve, Lilith and the Snake Leah and Rachel: A Study in Relationships The Women of the Exodus Story: A Study in Community The Daughters of TzelophehadPART II. Blood and Water: The Stuff of Life Introduction Blood and Its Symbolism in the Torah Menstruation and the Laws of Niddah A Jewish Feminist Reexamination of Menstruation Blood and Men: A Feminist Look at Brit Milah Women and Water in the Torah A Feminist Reexamination of MikvehPART III. God, Goddess, Gender and the Torah Introduction Searching for the Female Spirit in the Torah Female Imagery and Paganism The Place of the Goddess and Shekhinah in Judaism God-LanguageEpilogue Glossary Notes Bibliography and Suggested Further Reading Index.