Miriam R. Alejandrino, O.S.B. (“Heroic Women in Deuteronomistic History”) examines the various meanings of gibbôr in the Hebrew Bible and uses them as criteria for identifying and describing certain women in the Deuteronomistic History who may be regarded as heroines (gebîrôt). The author considers the following as worthy of the title: Rahab (Jos. 2:1–24), Deborah and Jael (Jgs. 4–5), the unnamed woman who killed Abimelech (Jgs. 9:50–55), Hannah (1 Sam. 1:9–20; 2:1–10), Michal (1 Sam. 19:11–17), Abigail (1 Sam. 25:18–31), and Huldah (2 Kgs. 22:14–20). – from the Editor