Inside front cover - Melton Course List
Title Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
Words of Welcome
Introduction from the Author
About the Author
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Writing Exercises
Midrashic Reading Strategies
I. Naamah: Names without Stories, Stories without Names
II. Asnat: Finding Blessings in the Background
III. The Daughters of Tzelofchad: What Was Their Wisdom?
Suggested Readings
Biblical and Midrashic Figures
Commentators
Endnotes
Lesson 2 - Chavah: Choice and Destiny
I. The Making
II. The Tree
III. Leaving the Garden
Suggested Readings
Commentators
Key Terms
Endnotes
Lesson 3 - Sarah: Hidden and Revealed
I. Sarai as Prophetess and Spiritual Leader
II. Sarah’s Family Life
III. Sarah’s Death
Suggested Readings
Commentators
Key Terms
Lesson 4 - Lot’s Wife and Daughters: Mortality and Eternity
I. Lot’s Daughter Paltit and the Wickedness of Sodom
II. Lot’s Wife
III. Lot’s Wife and Daughters
Suggested Readings
Commentators
Key Terms
Endnotes
Lesson 5 - Rivkah: Continuity and Rupture
I. Rivkah, Heir to Sarah
II. Rivkah Lives Out the Prophecy
Suggested Readings
Biblical and Rabbinic Figures
Commentators
Key Terms
Lesson 6 - Rachel and Leah: Sisters and Rivals
I. The Nature of the Sisters
II. The Wedding Night
III. Wrestling
Suggested Readings
Commentators
Key Terms
Appendix - Charlotte Mandel, The Marriages of Jacob
Endnotes
Lesson 7 - Serach bat Asher: Memory and Invention
I. The Girl with the Harp
II. Remembering the Bones
III. In the Beit Midrash
Epilogue: Serach’s Legend Lives On
Suggested Readings
Commentators
Key Terms
Endnotes
Lesson 8 - Women of the Exodus: Resistance and Revelation
I. In the Birthing-Chamber
II. By the Nile
III. Through the Sea
Suggested Readings
Biblical and Midrashic Figures
Commentators
Key Terms
Endnotes
Lesson 9 - Devorah: Prophecy and Power
I. Woman of Flames
II. Devorah and Yael
III. Devorah, Yael, and Sisera’s Mother
Suggested Readings
Commentators
Endnotes
Lesson 10 - Chanah: Anguish and Grace
I. Chanah and Peninah: Rival Wives
II. Chanah and Eli: In the Temple
III. Chanah and Shmuel: The Return to Shiloh
IV. Concluding Poem
Suggested Readings
Commentators
Key Terms
Endnotes
Creative Midrash Writing
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