Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-192) and indexes.
Contents
Without rival : the royal performance of masculinity in Assyrian royal inscriptions and palace reliefs -- Daughter Zion : the gendered presentation of the Assyrian crisis in First Isaiah, Zephaniah, and Nahum -- From daughter to whore and back again : the transformation of the Jerusalem complex in the post-Assyrian period -- The fruits of comparison : a conversation between gendered texts.