Endnote 1 – A Watermelon Named Abimelech

Susan Ackerman, Warrior, Dancer, Seductress, Queen (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1998), p. 70; Leila Leah Bronner, “Valorized or Vilified? The Women of Judges in Midrashic Sources,” in Athalya Brenner, ed. A Feminist Companion to Judges (Sheffield, UK: Sheffield Academic Press, 1993), p. 91; Robert G. Bolling, Judges: Introduction, Translation, and Commentary, Anchor Bible Series (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1975), p. 182. Authors who, like Bolling, suggest that she “drops” a millstone on Abimelech’s head include Lillian R. Klein, “A Spectrum of Female Characters,” in Feminist Companion to Judges, p. 32; William E. Phipps, Assertive Biblical Women, Contributions in Women’s Studies No. 128 (Westport, CN: Greenwood Press, 1992), p. 44; and C.G. Rasmussen, “Mill, Millstone,” International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, revised ed. (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1986).