| Ch. 1 | The winding paths of biblical wo/manhood | 1 |
| Ch. 2 | Monotheism = monogamy? : text, image and paradigm (word one; word two) | 24 |
| Ch. 3 | Oath : daughter of discord? (word three; word nine) | 63 |
| Ch. 4 | The Sabbath : invoking liberation? : revoking creation? (word four) | 86 |
| Ch. 5 | The burden of birth and the politics of motherhood (word five) | 107 |
| Ch. 6 | The mapping of murder (word six) | 128 |
| Ch. 7 | Conjugality and covenant (word seven) | 162 |
| Ch. 8 | Stealing hearts, thieving bodies (word eight) | 188 |
| Ch. 9 | The constraints of desire (word ten) | 208 |
| Ch. 10 | Are we, women, the addressees? : collected and closing reflections | 221 |