Murder and Difference: Gender, Genre, and Scholarship on Sisera's Death. . . an important contribution to current literary concerns with the ideologies of texts . . . Society of Old Testament Study Book List . . . she points the way into as yet little explored territory, broadly engaging literary theory as well as ideological criticism . . . she moves beyond both narrowly historical and exclusively text centered criticism . . . Theology Today . . . Bal has given us both a coruscating feminist critique of biblical