Ch. 1. Unto the thousandth generation / Phyllis Trible and Letty M. Russell
Ch. 2. Ominous beginnings for a promise of blessing / Phyllis Trible
Ch. 3. Twists and turns in Paul's allegory / Letty M. Russell
Ch. 4. Conflict and coexistence in Jewish interpretation / Adele Reinhartz and Miriam-Simma Walfish
Ch. 5. Interpretive fate amid the church fathers / Elizabeth A. Clark
Ch. 6. Islamic Hagar and her family / Riffat Hassan
Ch. 7. Hagar in African American biblical appropriation / Delores S. Williams
Ch. 8. Children of struggle / Letty M. Russell.