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Here are the top journals for topics on biblical studies and gender. If you use book reviews to get a sketch of a monograph-length academic argument, look for book reviews in these journals (The Journal of Biblical Literature has begun to offer its book reviews online). The journals are almost available online, either from their website (The Bible and Critical Theory) or through our library (all the others except Catholic Biblical Quarterly). Use the links below to connect to the journal.

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Exegetical Papers: Feminist Interpretation of Eve and the Creation Myths; Eve's First Bite: The Myth That Tells Many Meanings; A Comparison of Feminist and Literal Interpretations of the Genesis Creation Stories; Creating New Meaning: An Examination of Feminist and Masculist Readings of Genesis 1–3; A Comparison of Interpretations of Eve by 1st-century Jewish Philosopher Philo and 20th-century Feminist Phyllis Trible; Women's Interpersonal Rivalry: Sarah vs. Hagar in Patriarchal Context (Genesis 16, 21); The Case of the Slandered Bride: A Feminist Analysis of Deuteronomy 22:13-21; Midrash in Feminist and Queer Practice: The Story of the Levite's Concubine; Feminist Analysis of the Book of Ruth; Third-Wave Feminist and Queer Interpretation of the Book of Esther; Was Jesus a Feminist?; Martha and Mary in Feminist Perspective; Feminist Analysis of Jesus' Prohibitions of Divorce and Remarriage (Mark 10:2-9; Matt 19:1-12); A Radical Approach: Queering the Romans 1:18-32 Debate; A Feminist Political Analysis of the Household Codes in Ephesians 5; Marriage and the Bible: Loving Union or Patriarchal Prison (Genesis 3 and Ephesians 5)
History of Interpretation Papers: Theologies of the Fall, a Feminist Critique: Genesis 1-3 and John Milton's Paradise Lost, Books 8-9; The Watchers, Their Wives & the Giants: Maternal Representations of Evil in Scripture and in Postmodern Horror Film (Genesis 6:1-4 & 1 Enoch); Rethinking Sodom and Gomorrah's Sin (Genesis 19); The Rape of Dinah from Classic and Feminist Perspectives (Genesis 34); The Threat of Schism: The Debate over the Ordination of Women and Homosexuals in the Anglican Communion; Women’s Ordination in the Catholic Church; Gendering Jesus in Christian Art: A History of Interpretation; Womanist Critique on African American Preaching; Deconstructing Empire: A Feminist Analysis of George W. Bush’s Use of the Bible in a 9/11 Memorial Speech; Biblical Texts as Judicial Case Law: The Role of the Bible in Debates over Same-Sex Rites
Theoretical Papers: The Problem of Human and God Language in Feminist Discourse; Suppressing Oppression: How Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza Undermines Her Feminist Project
Activism Papers: Not Today, Maybe Tomorrow: Relating Feminism and Queer Theory in the Activist and Academic Arenas; Dignity USA's Interpretation of Same-Sex Passages in the Bible

Exegesis Papers

Feminist Interpretation of Eve and the Creation Myths: Adam, A. K. M. Faithful Interpretation: Reading the Bible in a Postmodern World. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2006.; Augustine. City of God, trans. Henry Bettenson. London: Penguin, 1984.; Bechtel, Lyn M. "Genesis 2.4B-3.24: A Myth About Human Maturation." Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 67 (1995) 3-26. DOI: 10.1177/030908929502006701.; Boyarin, Daniel. "Gender." In Critical Terms for Religious Studies (ed. Mark C. Taylor; Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998) 117-35.; Carden, Michael. "Genesis/Bereshit." In The Queer Bible Commentary (eds. Deryn Guest, Robert E. Goss, Mona West and Thomas Bohache; London: scm press, 2006) 21-60.; Charmé, Stuart Z. "Children’s Gendered Responses to the Story of Adam and Eve." Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion 13:2 (1997) 27-44.; Clift, William B. Jung and Christianity: The Challenge of Reconciliation. New York: Crossroad, 1982.; Day, Linda. "Wisdom and The Feminine in the Hebrew Bible." In Engaging the Bible in a Gendered World (eds. Linda Day and Carolyn Pressler; Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2006) 114-27.; De Vries, Roland J. "Wonder between Two: An Irigarayan Reading of Genesis 2:23." Modern Theology 24:1 (2008) 51-74.; Gellman, Jerome I. "Gender and Sexuality in the Garden of Eden." Theology & Sexuality 12:3 (2006) 319-335.; Goldingay, John. "Hosea 1-3, Genesis 1-4, and Masculist Interpretation." In A Feminist Companion to the Latter Prophets (ed. Athalya Brenner; Sheffield, England: Sheffield Academic Press, 1995) 161-68.; Gunkel, Hermann. Genesis, trans. Mark E. Biddle. Macon, Georgia: Mercer University Press, 1997.; Harrison, Verna E. F. "The Allegorization of Gender: Plato and Philo on Spiritual Childbearing." In Asceticism (ed. Vincent L. Wimbush and Richard Valantasis; New York: Oxford University Press, 1995) 520-34.; Kahl, Brigitte. "And She Called His Name Seth (Gen 4:25): The Birth of Critical Knowledge and the Unread End of Eve’s Story." Union Seminary Quarterly Review 53 (1999) 1-2.; Kimelman, Reuven. "The Seduction of Eve and Feminist Readings of the Garden of Eden." In Women in Judaism 1 (1998). Online, Women In Judaism: A Multidisciplinary Journal, http://mediatropes.com/index.php/wjudaism/article/viewArticle/170.; Korsak, Mary Phil. "Genesis: A New Look." In Feminist Companion to Genesis (ed. Athalya Brenner; Feminist Companion to the Bible; Sheffield, England: Sheffield Academic Press, 1993) 39-52.; Kundera, Milan. The Unbearable Lightness of Being, trans. Michael Henry Heim. New York: Harper & Row, 1984.; Kvam, Kristin, Linda S. Shearing and Valarie H. Ziegler, eds. Eve and Adam: Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Readings on Genesis and Gender. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999.; Lanser, Susan S. "(Feminist) Criticism in the Garden: Inferring Genesis 2-3." Semeia 41 (1988) 67-84.; Martin, Dale B. Sex and the Single Savoir: Gender and Sexuality in Biblical Interpretation. Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2006.; Matilla, Lea Sharon. "Wisdom, Sense Perception, Nature, and Philo’s Gender Gradient." Harvard Theological Review 89:2 (1996) 103-129.; Meyers, Carol L. Discovering Eve: Ancient Israelite Women in Context. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.; McKinlay, Judith E. "Bothering to Enter the Garden of Eden Once Again." Feminist Theology 19:2 (2011) 143-53.; Milne, Pamela J. "Eve and Adam: Is a Feminist Reading Possible?" Bible Review 4:3 (1988) 12-21.; Nouwen, Henri. Seeds of Hope: A Henri Nouwen Reader, ed. Robert Durback. New York: Doubleday, 1989.; Olson, Dennis T. "Untying the Knot? Masculinity, Violence, and the Creation-Fall Story of Genesis 2-4." In Engaging the Bible in a Gendered World: An Introduction to Feminist Biblical Interpretation in Honor of Katharine Doob Sakenfeldi> (eds. Linda Day and Carolyn Pressler; Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2006) 73-86.; O’Connor, Kathleen. "The Feminist Movement Meets the Old Testament." In Engaging the Bible in a Gendered World: An Introduction to Feminist Biblical Interpretation in Honor of Katharine Doob Sakenfeld (eds. Linda Day and Carolyn Pressler; Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2006) 3-24.; Philo. "Allegorical Interpretation (Legum Allegoria)." In Philo, vol. 1 (trans. F. H. Colson and G. H. Whitaker; Loeb Classical Library 226; Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1929) 146-473.; Philo. "Questions and Answers on Genesis (Quaestiones et Solutiones in Genesin." In Philo Supplement 1 (trans. Ralph Marcus; Loeb Classical Library 380; Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1953).; Phipps, William E. Genesis and Gender: Biblical Myths of Sexuality and Their Cultural Impact.. New York: Praeger Publishers, 1989.; Rahner, Karl. Foundations of Christian Faith: An Introduction to the Idea of Christianity, trans. William V. Dych. New York: Crossroad, 2007).; Rooke, Deborah W. "Feminist Criticism of the Old Testament: Why Bother?" Feminist Theology 15:2 (2007) 160-174.; Sandmel, Samuel. Philo of Alexandria. New York: Harvard University Press, 1979.; Sawyer, D. "Resurrecting Eve? Feminist Critique of the Garden of Eden." In A Walk in the Garden: Biblical, Iconographical and Literary Images of Eden (ed. Paul Morris and Deborah F. Sawyer; JSOTSup 136; Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1992) 273-89.; Styler, Rebecca. "A Scripture of Their Own: Nineteenth-century Bible Biography and Feminist Bible Criticism." Christianity and Literature 57:1 (2007) 65-85.; Tobin, S. Thomas. The Creation of Man: Philo and the History of Interpretation. Washington, D.C.: Catholic Biblical Association of America, 1983.; Trible, Phyllis. "Eve and Adam: Genesis 2-3 Reread." In Eve and Adam: Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Readings on Genesis and Gender (ed. Kristen E. Kvam, Linda S. Schearing, and Valarie H. Ziegler; Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1999) 430-443.; --------. "Eve and Miriam: From the Margins to the Center." In Feminist Approaches to the Bible: Symposium at the Smithsonian Institution September 24, 1994 (ed. Hershel Shanks; Washington, D.C.: Biblical Archaeology Society, 1995) 5-24.; Wheelhouse, Troy A. "What Is Yadá Doing Here? Another Text of Terror in the Creation Story." Journal of the Interdenominational Theological Center 32:1-2 (2004-2005) 123-31.; Yee, Gale A. "Gender, Class, and the Social-scientific Study of Genesis 2–3." Semeia 87 (1999) 177-92.


Women's Interpersonal Rivalry: Sarah vs. Hagar in Patriarchal Context (Genesis 16, 21): Al-Hibri, Azizah. “Hagar on My Mind.” In Philosophy, Feminism, and Faith (ed. Ruth E. Groenhout and Marya Bower; Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2003) 198-210.; Apter, Terri and Ruthellen Josselson. Best Friends: The Pleasures and Perils of Girls and Women’s Friendships. Thousand Oaks, California: Sage, 1998.; Bailey, Wilma Ann. “Hagar: A Model for an Anabaptist Feminist?” Mennonite Quarterly Review 68:2 (1994) 219-28.; Benckhuysen, Amanda W. “Reading between the Lines: Josephine Butler’s Socially Conscious Commentary on Hagar.” In Recovering Nineteenth-century Women Interpreters of the Bible (ed. Christiana de Groot and Marion Ann Taylor; Society of Biblical Literature Symposium Series 38; Leiden: Brill, 2007) 135-48.; Brown, L. M. Girlfighting: Betrayal and Rejection among Girls. New York: New York University Press, 2003.; Collins, John J. The Bible after Babel: Historical Criticism in a Postmodern Age. Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans, 2005.; Cooper, Alan. “Hagar in and out of Context.” Union Seminary Quarterly Review 55:1-2 (2001) 35-46.; Davidson, Jo Ann. "Genesis Matriarchs Engage Feminism." Andrews University Seminary Studies 40:2 (2002) 169-78.; Dube, Musa. Postcolonial Feminist Interpretation of the Bible. St. Louis: Chalice, 2000.; Eichenbaum, L. and S. Orbach. Between Women: Love, Envy, and Competition in Women's Friendships. New York: Viking, 1987.; Exum, J Cheryl. “Mother In Israel”: A Familiar Story Reconsidered.” In Feminist Interpretation of the Bible (ed. Letty M. Russell; Philadelphia: Westminster, 1985) 73-85.; Fuchs, Esther. "Re-claiming Biblical Women: Feminist (Jewish) Re-readings of Hebrew Narratives." Hebrew Studies 47 (2006) 395-402.; Graetz, Naomi. "Will the Real Hagar Please Stand Up?." HAGAR: Studies in Culture, Polity & Identities 4:1/2 (2003) 213-19.; Havrelock, Rachel S. “The Myth of the Birthing Hero: Heroic Barrenness in the Hebrew Bible.” Biblical Interpretation 16:2 (2008) 154-78.; Hawkins, Peter S., and Lesleigh Cushing Stahlberg. From the Margins, vol. 1, Women of the Hebrew Bible and Their Afterlives. Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix, 2009.; Holmstrom, Amanda J. “Sex and Gender Similarities and Differences in Communication Values in Same-Sex and Cross-Sex Friendships.” Communication Quarterly 57:2 (2009) 224-38.; Levine, Amy-Jill. “Settling At Beer-Lahai-Roi.” In Daughters of Abraham: Feminist Thought in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam (ed. Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad and John L. Esposito; Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2001) 12-34.; Litwin, Anne Helaine and Lynn O’Brien Hallstein. “Shadows and Silences: How Women’s Positioning and Unspoken Friendship Rules in Organizational Settings Cultivate Difficulties among Some Women at Work.” Women’s Studies in Communication 30:1 (2007) 111-42.; McKinlay, Judith E. “Sarah And Hagar: What Have I To Do with Them?” In Her Master’s Tools? Feminist and Postcolonial Engagements of Historical-critical Discourse (ed. Caroline Vander Stichele and Todd Penner; Global Perspectives on Biblical Scholarship 9; Atlanta: SBL, 2005) 159-77.; Mbuwayesango, Dora R. "Childlessness and Woman-to-Woman Relationships in Genesis and in African Patriarc[h]al Society: Sarah and Hagar from a Zimbabwean Woman's Perspective (Gen 16:1-16; 21:8-21)." Semeia 78 (1997) 27-36.; Okoye, James C. “Sarah and Hagar: Genesis 16 and 21.” Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 32:2 (2007) 163-75.; Pa, Anna May Say. “Reading Ruth 3:1-5 from an Asian Woman’s Perspective,” in Engaging the Bible in a Gendered World (Louisville, Kentucky: Westminster John Knox, 2006) 47-59.; Pinker, Aron. "The Expulsion of Hagar and Ishmael (Gen 21:9-21)." Women In Judaism 6:1 (2009). Online, http://wjudaism.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/wjudaism/article/view/15798.; Rogers, Sara. “Sarah: Villain or Patriarchal Pawn?” In Patriarchs, Prophets and Other Villains (ed. Lisa Isherwood; London: Equinox, 2007) 69-84.; Rulon-Miller, Nina. “Hagar: A Woman with an Attitude.” World of Genesis: Persons, Places, Perspectives (ed. Philip R. Davies and David J. A. Clines; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic, 1998) 60-89.; Russell, Letty Mandeville. “Children of Struggle.” In Hagar, Sarah, and Their Children: Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Perspectives (ed. Phyllis Trible and Letty M. Russell; Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2006) 185-97.; Sibley, C. G., N. C. Overall, and J. Duckitt. “When Women Become More Hostilely Sexist toward their Gender: The System-justifying Effect of Benevolent Sexism.” Sex Roles 57 (2007) 743–54.; Simmons, Rachel. Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls. New York: Harcourt, 2002.; Tanenbaum, L. Catfight: Women and competition. New York: Seven Stories Press, 2002.; Tanner, Beth LaNeel. “My Sister Sarah: On Being a Woman in the First World.” In Engaging the Bible in a Gendered World: An Introduction to Feminist Biblical Interpretation in Honor of Katharine Doob Sakenfeld (ed. Linda Day and Carolyn Pressler; Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2006) 60-72.; Taylor, Judith. “Imperfect Intimacies: The Problem of Women’s Sociality in Contemporary North American Feminist Memoir.” Gender and Society 22:6 (2008) 705-727.; Taylor, Katy. “From Lavender to Purple: A Feminist Reading of Hagar and Celie in the Light of Womanism.” Theology 97:779 (1994) 352-62.; Teubal, Savina J. “Sarah and Hagar: Matriarchs and Visionaries.” In A Feminist Companion to Genesis, ed. Athalya Brenner; A Feminist Companion to the Bible 2; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1993) 235-50.; Van Dijk-Hemmes, Fokkelien. “Sarai’s Exile: A Gender-Motivated Reading of Genesis 12.10–13:2.” In A Feminist Companion to Genesis, ed. Athalya Brenner; A Feminist Companion to the Bible 2; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1993) 222-34.; Weis, Richard D. “Stained Glass Window, Kaleidoscope or Catalyst: The Implications of Difference in Readings of the Hagar and Sarah Stories.” In Gift of God in Due Season: Essays on Scripture and Community in Honor of James A. Sanders (ed. Richard D. Weis and David M. Carr; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic, 1996) 253-73.; Townsley, Gillian. “Gender Trouble in Corinth: Que(e)rying Constructs of Gender in Corinthians 11:2-16.” The Bible and Critical Theory 2:2 (2006) 17.1–17.14. DOI: 10.2104/bc060017.; Zucker, David J. "Seeing and Hearing: The Interrelated Lives of Sarah and Hagar." Women In Judaism 7:1 (2010). Online, http://wjudaism.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/wjudaism/article/view/14663.; Zucker, David J. and Moshe Reiss. "Abraham, Sarah, and Hagar as a Blended Family: Problems, Partings, and Possibilities." Women in Judaism 6:2 (2009). Online, http://wjudaism.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/wjudaism/article/view/12643.

The Case of the Slandered Bride: A Feminist Analysis of Deuteronomy 22:13-21: Frymer-Kensky, Tikva “Deuteronomy,” In The Women’s Bible Commentary (ed. Carol A. Newson and Sharon H. Ringe; Louisville: Westminister/John Knox Press, 1992) 52-62.; Marcus, Rachel. “Violence against Women in Bangladesh, Pakistan, Egypt, Sudan, Senegal and Yemen,” Google Scholar (1993) 1-13; online, http://www.bridge.ids.ac.uk//bridge/Reports/re10c.pdf.; Menn, Esther M. “Sexuality in the Old Testament: Strong as Death, Unquenchable as Fire,” Currents in Theology and Mission Vol. 30:1 (2003) 37-45.; Newson, Carol A. and Ringe, Sharon H. The Women’s Bible Commentary (ed. Carol A. Newson and Sharon H. Ringe; Louisville: Westminister/John Knox Press, 1992).; Pressler, Carol. “Sexual Violence and Deuteronomic Law,” In A Feminist Companion to Exodus to Deuteronomy (ed. Athalya Brenner; Sheffield; England: Sheffield Academic Press, 2001) 102-112.; Tolbert, Mary Ann. “Gender,” In Handbook of Postmodern Biblical Criticism (ed. A.K.M. Adam; St. Louis: Chalice, 2000) 99-105.; Wells, Bruce “Sex, Lies, and Virginal Rape: The Slandered Bride and False Accusations in Deuteronomy.” Journal of Biblical Literature Vol. 124:1 (2005) 41-72.; Ziskind, Jonathan R. “The Treatment of Women in Deuteronomy: Moral Absolutism and Practicality,” The Jewish Bible Quarterly Vol. 27:3 (1999) 153-157.

Midrash in Feminist and Queer Practice: The Story of the Levite’s Concubine: Bakhos, Carol. Current Trends in the Study of Midrash. Boston: Brill, 2006.; Bowen, Nancy R. "Women, Violence, and the Bible." In Engaging the Bible in a Gendered World (ed. Linda Day & Carolyn Pressler; Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2006).; Fraade, Steven. "Rewritten Bible and Rabbinic Midrash as Commentary." In Current Trends in the Study of Midrash (ed. Carol Bakhos; Boston: Brill, 2006).; Mandel, Paul. "The Origins of Midrash in the Second Temple Period." In Current Trends in the Study of Midrash (ed. Carol Bakhos; Boston: Brill, 2006).; Martin, Dale B. Sex and the Single Savior. Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2006.; Morgenstern, Mira. "Ruth and the Sense of Self: Midrash and Difference." Judaism (1991).; Rosen, Norma. "Midrash, Bible, and Women’s Voices." Judaism 45 (2001).; Visotzky, Burton. "Midrash, Christian Exegesis, and Hellenistic Hermeneutic." In Current Trends in the Study of Midrash (ed. Carol Bakhos; Boston: Brill, 2006).

Feminist Analysis of the Book of Ruth: Bauckham, Richard. “The Book of Ruth and the Possibility of a Feminist Canonical Hermeneutic.” In Biblical Interpretation: A Journal of Contemporary Approaches, vol. 5, (ed. Hugh Pyper; Leiden; Brill Publishing) 1997, 29-45.; Bellis, Alice Ogden. Helpmates, Harlots, and Heroes: Women’s Stories in the Hebrew Bible. Louisville, Kentucky: Westminster John Knox Press, 2007.; Blotz, Joseph W. “Bitterness and Friendship: A Feminist Exegesis of the Book of Ruth.” Currents in Theology and Mission 32 (2005) 47-54.; Brenner, Athalya. “Ruth as a Foreign Worker and the Politics of Exogamy.” In Ruth and Esther: A Feminist Companion to the Bible. (ed. Athalya Brenner; Sheffield, England: Sheffield Academic Press, 1999) 158-162.; Chu, Julie L. C. “Returning Home: The Inspiration of the Role Dedifferentiation in the Book of Ruth for Taiwanese Women.” In Semeia an Experimental Journal for Biblical Criticism: Reading the Bible as Women Perspectives from Africa, Asia, and Latin America (ed. Phyllis A. Bird; Atlanta, Georgia: Scholars Press, 1997) 47-53.; Craven, Toni. “Tradition and Convention in the Book of Judith.” Semeia 28 (1983) 49-61.; Dube, Musa W. “Diving Ruth for International Relations.” In Postmodern Interpretations of the Bible: A Reader (ed. A.K.M. Adam; Atlanta: Chalice Press, 2001) 67-79.; Fewell, Dana Nolan and David M. Gunn. Gender, Power, and Promise: The Subject of the Bible’s First Story. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1993.; Fuchs, Esther. Sexual Politics in the Biblical Narrative: Reading the Hebrew Bible as a Woman. Sheffield, England: Sheffield Academic Press, 2000.; Honig, Bonnie. “Ruth, the Model Emigree: Mourning and the Symbolic Politics of Immigration.” In Ruth and Esther: A Feminist Companion to the Bible. (ed.Athalya Brenner; Sheffield, England: Sheffield Academic Press, 1999) 50-74.; Lapsley, Jacqueline. “Seeing the Older Woman: Naomi in High Definition.” In Engaging the Bible in a Gendered World: An Introduction to Feminist Biblical Interpretation in Honor of Katharine Doob Sakenfeld (ed. Linda Day and Carolyn Pressler; Louisville, Kentucky; Westminster John Knox Press, 1989) 102-113.; --------. Whispering the Word: Hearing Women’s Stories in the Old Testament. Louisville, Kentucky: Westminster John Knox Press, 2005.; Lee, Eunny P. “Ruth the Moabite: Identity, Kinship, and Otherness.” In Engaging the Bible in a Gendered World: An Introduction to Feminist Biblical Interpretation in Honor of Katharine Doob Sakenfeld (ed. Linda Day and Carolyn Pressler; Louisville, Kentucky; Westminster John Knox Press, 1989) 89-101.; Levine, Amy-Jill. “Ruth.” In Women’s Bible Commentary (ed. Carol Newsom and Sharon Ringe; Louisville, Kentucky: Westminster John Knox Press, 1998) 84 90.; Masenya, Madipoane J. “NGWETSI (BRIDE): The Naomi-Ruth Story an African-South African Woman’s Perspective.” Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion 14 (1998) 81-90.; Meyers, Carol. “Women of the Neighborhood: Informal Female Networks in Ancient Israel.” In Ruth and Esther: A Feminist Companion to the Bible. (ed. Athalya Brenner; Sheffield, England: Sheffield Academic Press, 1999) 110-127.; Nadar, Sarojini “‘Texts of Terror’: The Conspiracy of Rape in the Bible, Church, and Society: the Case of Esther 2:1-18.” In African Women, Religion, and Health: Essays in Honor of Mercy Amba Ewudziwa Oduyoye (ed. Isabel Apawo Phiri and Sarojini Nadar; Maryknoll: Orbis, 2006) 77-93.; Say Pa, Anna May. “Reading Ruth 3:1-5 from an Asian Woman’s Perspective.” In Engaging the Bible in a Gendered World: An Introduction to Feminist Biblical Interpretation in Honor of Katharine Doob Sakenfeld (ed. Linda Day and Carolyn Pressler; Louisville, Kentucky; Westminster John Knox Press, 1989) 47-59.; West, Mona. “Ruth.” In The Queer Bible Commentary. (ed. Deryn Guest, Robert E. Goss, Mona West, Thomas Bohache; London: SCM Press, 2006) 190-194.

Third-Wave Feminist and Queer Interpretation of the Book of Esther: Baxter, Heidi L. "Vashti's Victory: And Other Biblical Women Resisting Injustice." Review & Expositor 101.2 (2004): 316-318.; Beal, Timothy K. The Book of Hiding: Gender, Ethnicity, Annihilation, and Esther. London: Routledge, 1997.; Bellis, Alice Ogden. Helpmates, Harlots, and Heroes: Women's Stories in the Hebrew Bible. Louisville, Kentucky: Westminster John Knox, 2007. 190-195.; Butting, Klara. “Esther: A New Interpretation of the Joseph Story in the Fight Against Anti-Semitism and Sexism,” in Ruth and Esther: A Feminist Companion to the Bible (ed. Athalya Brenner: Sheffield, England: Sheffield Academic Press, 1999) 239-248.; Gill, LaVerne McCain. Vashti's Victory and Other Biblical Women Resisting Injustice. Cleveland: Pilgrim, 2003. 1-18.; Cohen, Jeffrey M. "Vashti--An Unsung Heroine." Jewish Bible Quarterly 24.2 (1996): 103-106.; Davidson, Steed V. "Diversity, Difference, And Access To Power In Diaspora: The Case Of The Book Of Esther." Word & World 29.3 (2009): 280-287.; Hancock, Rebecca S. Esther and the Politics of Negotiation: Public and Private Spaces and the Figure of the Female Royal Counselor, Emerging Scholars. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2013.; Jacobs, J. "Characterizing Esther from the Outset." Journal of Hebrew Scriptures 8 (2011) 1-13.; Mosala, Itumeleng J. The Postcolonial Biblical Reader: The implications of the text of Esther for African women’s struggle for liberation in South Africa. Malden, Massachusetts: Blackwell Publishing, 2006. 134-141.; O’Connor, Kathleen M. “The Feminist Movement Meets the Old Testament: One Woman’s Perspective,” in Engaging the Bible in a Gendered World (ed. Linda Day and Carolyn Pressler; Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2006) 3-24.; Schneider, Laurel C. “Queer Theory,” in Handbook of Postmodern Biblical Criticism (ed. A.K.M. Adam; St. Louis: Chalice, 2000) 206-212.; Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky. “Epistemology of the Closet,” in Queer Theory and the Jewish Question (ed. Daniel Boyarin, Daniel Itzkovitz, and Ann Pellegrini: New York: Columbia University Press, 2003) 41-63.; Tanner, Beth Laneel. “My Sister Sarah: On Being a Woman in the First World,” in Engaging the Bible in a Gendered World (ed. Linda Day & Carolyn Pressler: Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2006) 60-72.; Tolbert, Mary Ann. “Gender,” in Handbook of Postmodern Biblical Criticism (ed. A.K.M. Adam; St. Louis: Chalice, 2000) 99-105.; Walfish, Barry Dov. Esther in Medieval Garb: Jewish Interpretation of the Book of Esther in the Middle Ages. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 1993.; West, Mona. “Esther,” in The Queer Bible Commentary (ed. Deryn Guest, Robert E. Goss, Mona West, and Thomas Bohache; London: SCM Press, 2006) 278-285.; White, Sidnie Ann. “Esther,” in The Women’s Bible Commentary (ed. Carol A. Newsom and Sharon H. Ringe: Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 1992) 124-129.

Was Jesus a Feminist?: Brooten, Bernadette. “Early Christian Women and Their Cultural Context: Issues of Method in Historical Reconstruction.” In Feminist Perspectives on Biblical Scholarship (ed. Adela Yarbro Collins; Biblical Scholarship in North America 10; Chico, California: Scholars Press, 1985) 65-91.; Boys, Mary C. “Patriarchal Judaism, Liberating Jesus: A Feminist Misrepresentation.” Union Seminary Quarterly Review 56:3-4 (2002) 48-61.; Corley, Kathleen. Women & the Historical Jesus: Feminist Myths of Christian Origins. Santa Rosa: Polebridge Press, 2002.; D’Angelo, Mary Rose. “Re-membering Jesus: Women, Prophecy, and Resistance in the Memory of the Early Churches.” Horizons 19:2 (1992) 199-218.; D’Angelo, Mary Rose and Elizabeth A. Castelli. “Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza on Women in the Gospels and Feminist Christology.” Religious Studies Review 22:4 (1996) 293-300.; Day, Linda and Carolyn Pressler, eds. Engaging the Bible in a Gendered World. Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2006.; Levine, Amy-Jill. “Women in the Q Communit(ies) and Traditions.” Women and Christian Origins (New York: Oxford Universtiy Press, 1999) 150-170.; Kraemer, Ross S. “The Conversion of Women to Ascetic Forms of Christianity.” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 6 (1980) 298-307.; --------. "Jewish Women and Christian Origins: Some Caveats." In Women and Christian Origins (ed. Ross Shepard Kraemer and Mary Rose D'Angelo; New York: Oxford University Press, 1999) 35-49.; Schüssler, Fiorenza, Elisabeth. In Memory of Her: A Feminist Theological Reconstruction of Christian Origins (London: SCM, 1995) 107-110.; -------- “The Power of Naming: Jesus, Women, and Christian Anti-Judaism.” Jesus: Miriam’s Child, Sophia’s Prophet. New York: The Continuum International Publishing Group, 1994.; Simpson, Jane. “Women and Asceticism in the Fourth Century: A Question of Interpretation.” The Journal of Religious History 15 (June 1988) 38-60.; Stegemann, Ekkehard W. and Wolfgang Stegemann. “Part Four: The Social Roles and Social Situation of Women in the Mediterranean World and in Early Christianity.” In The Jesus Movement: A Social History of Its First Century, trans. O. C. Dean, Jr. (Minneapolis: Fortress, 1999; German original, Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1995) 359-407, 463-74 .; Wainwright, Elaine Mary. “Reading Matthew 3–4: Jesus—Sage, Seer, Sophia, Son of God.” Journal for the Study of the New Testament 77 (2000) 25-43.; Witherington, Ben. “Women in the Churches of Matthew, Mark, and John.” Women in the Earliest Churches. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988.

Martha and Mary in Feminist Perspective: Brant, Jo Ann A. “Husband Hunting.” Biblical Interpretation. (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1996). 205-223.; Bressler, Charles E. Literary Criticism: An Introduction to Theory and Practice, (Upper Saddle River: Pearson Education, 2007) 168.; Carter, Warren. “Getting Martha out of the Kitchen: Lk 10:38-42.” The Catholic Biblical Quarterly 58: 2. (Washington: Catholic Biblical Association of America, 1996). 264-280.; D’Angelo, Mary Rose. “Women Partners in the New Testament,” Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion 6:1. (Chico,California: Scholars Press, 1990) 65-86.; --------. “Martha.” Women in Scripture: a Dictionary of Named and Unnamed Women in the Hebrew Bible, the Apocryphal. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2000. 114-116.; Schüssler Fiorenza, Elisabeth. “A Feminist Critical Interpretation for Liberation” Religion and Intellectual Life, (Sweet Briar: The Associates, 1986) 21-36.; Kitzberger, Ingrid R. “Mary of Bethany and Mary of Magdala.” New Testament Studies. (London: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1995). 565-586.; Moloney, Francis J, “The Faith of Martha and Mary a Narrative Approach to John 11, 17 40,” Biblica 75. (Romae: Pontificium Institutum Biblicum 1994). 490.; --------. “Can Everyone Be Wrong? A Reading of John 11:1-12:8,” New Testament Studies 49. (United Kingdom: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2003). 505-527.; North, Wendy Sproston, “Jesus’ Prayer in John 11,” The Old Testament in the New Testament. (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2000) 164-180.

A Feminist Reading of Jesus’ Prohibition of Divorce (Mark 10:2-9; Matt 19:1-12): Anderson, Janice Capel. “Matthew: Gender and Reading.” In A Feminist Companion to Matthew (eds. Amy-Jill Levine and Marianne Blickenstaff; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2001) 25-51.; Chen, Hannah. “On Divorce: A Feminist Christian Perspective.” Feminist Theology 11:2 (2003) 244-251.; D’Angelo, Mary Rose. "Eusebia: Roman Imperial Family Values and the Sexual Politics of 4 Maccabees and the Pastorals." Biblical Interpretation 11:2 (2003) 142-154.; --------. "Remarriage and the Divorce Sayings Attributed to Jesus." In Divorce and Remarriage (ed. William P. Roberts; Kansas City: Sheed and Ward, 1990) 78-106.; --------. "(Re)presentations of Women in the Gospel of Matthew and Luke-Acts." In Women and Christian Origins (eds. Ross Shepard Kraemer and Mary Rose D’Angelo; New York: Oxford, 1999) 171-195.; Farley, Margaret A. "Divorce and Remarriage: A Moral Perspective." In Divorce and Remarriage: Religious and Psychological Perspectives (ed. William P. Roberts; Kansas City: Sheed & Ward, 1990) 107-127.; Heth, William A. and Gordon J. Wenham. Jesus and Divorce: The Problem with the Evangelical Consensus. Nashville: T. Nelson, 1985.; Levine, Amy-Jill. “Matthew.” In The Women’s Bible Commentary (eds. Carol A. Newsom and Sharon H. Ringe; London: Westminster/John Knox Press, 1992) 252-262.; --------. The Misunderstood Jew: The Church and the Scandal of the Jewish Jesus. New York: HarperCollins, 2006.; Mackin, Theodore. “The International Theological Commission and Indissolubilty,” in Divorce and Remarriage: Religious and Psychological Perspectives (ed. William P. Roberts; Kansas City: Sheed & Ward, 1990) 27-77.; Martin, Dale B. Sex and the Single Savior. Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2006. New American Bible. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, 2002.; Schüssler Fiorenza, Elizabeth. Bread Not Stone. Boston: Beacon, 1984.; --------. In Memory of Her. New York: Crossroad, 1983.; --------. Sharing Her Word. Boston: Beacon, 1998.; Talbott, Rick. “Imagining the Matthean Eunuch Community: Kyriarchy on the Chopping Block.” JFSR 22.1 (2006) 21-43.; Vawter, Bruce, “The Divorce Clauses in MT 5,32 and 19,9.” Catholic Biblical Quarterly 16:2 (1954) 155-167.; Wenham, G.J. “Matthew and Divorce: An Old Crux Revisited.” JSNT 22 (1984) 95-107.

A Radical Approach: Queering the Romans 1:18-32 Debate: The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. “The Pastoral Care of Homosexual Persons.” In Homosexuality and the Church: Both Sides of the Debate (ed. Jeffery S. Siker, Louisville, Kentucky: Westminster John Knox Press, 1994) 39-47.; Hanks, Thomas. “Romans.” In The Queer Bible Commentary (ed. Deryn Guest, Robert E. Goss, Mona West and Thomas Bohache, London: SCM Press, 2006) 582-604.; Gagnon, Robert A. J. The Bible and Homosexual Practice: Texts and Hermeneutics. Nashville: Abingdon, 2002.; Hays, Richard B. “Awaiting the Redemption of Our Bodies: The Witness of Scripture Concerning Homosexuality.” In Homosexuality and the Church: Both Sides of the Debate (ed. Jeffery S. Siker, Louisville, Kentucky: Westminster John Knox Press, 1994) 3-17.; Hays, Richard B. Echoes of Scripture in the Letters of Paul. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1989.; Martin, Dale. “Heterosexism and the Interpretation of Romans 1:18-32.” In Sex and the Single Savior (Louisville, Kennucky: Westminster John Knox Press, 2006) 51-64.; Metzger, Bruce. The Holy Bible: The New Revised Standard Version with Apocrypha. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989.; Moore, Stephen D. “Que(e)rying Paul.” In Auguries: The Jubilee Volume of the Sheffield Department of Biblical Studies (ed. David J. A. Clines and Stephen D. Moore; JSOTSup 269; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1998) 250-74.; Sullivan, Nikki. A Critical Introduction to Queer Theory. New York: New York University Press, 2003.; Schneider, Laurel C. “Queer Theory.” In Handbook of Postmodern Biblical Interpretation (ed. A. K. M. Adam; St. Louis: Chalice Press, 2000) 206-212.

A Feminist Political Analysis of the Household Codes in Ephesians 5: Bal, Mieke. Lethal Love: Feminist Literary Readings of Biblical Love Stories (Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1987).; D’Angelo, Mary Rose. “Roman Imperial Family Values and the Sexual Politics of 4 Maccabees and the Pastorals,” Biblical Interpretation 11 (2 2003).; Farley, Margaret A. Just Love: a Framework for Christian Sexual Ethics. New York: Continuum, 2006.; Gombis, Timothy G. “A Radically New Humanity: The Function of the Haustafel in Ephesians,” JETS48/2 (2005).; Goss, Robert E. “Ephesians,” in The Queer Bible Commentary (ed. Deryn Guest, Robert E. Goss, Mona West and Thomas Bonache; London: SCM Press, 2006).; Levine, Amy-Jill. “Women in the Q Communit(ies) and Traditions,” in Women and Chrsitian Origins (ed. Ross Shepard Kraemer and Mary Rose D’Angelo; New York: Oxford University Press, 1999).; MacDonald and Osiek. “Ephesians 5 and the Politics of Marriage,” in A Woman’s Place: House Churches in Earliest Christianity (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2006).; Martin, Dale. Sex and the Single Savior (Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2006).; Nadar, Sarojini. “Texts of Terror: the Conspiracy of Rape in the Bible, Church, and Society: the Case of Esther 2:1-18,” in African Women, Religion, and Health: In Honor of Mercy Amba Ewudziwa Oduyoye (ed. Isabel Apawo Phiri and Sarojini Nadar; Maryknoll: Orbis, 2006).; Pratton, Marie. “Christianity and Feminism: the Marriage of Love and Reason.”Feminist Theology 10 (2002) 104-113.; Schüssler Fiorenza, Elisabeth. Sharing Her Word: Feminist Biblical Interpretation in Context (Boston: Beacon Press, 1998).

Marriage and the Bible: Loving Union or Patriarchal Prison (Genesis 3 and Ephesians 5): Boyarin, Daniel. “Gender.” in Critical Terms for Religious Studies (ed. Mark C. Taylor: Chicago: University of Chicago, 1998) 117-35.; Bradley, Keith R. Discovering the Roman Family: Studies in Roman Social History. London: Oxford University Press, 1991.; D’Angelo, Mary R. “Roman Imperial Family Values and the Sexual Politics of 4 Maccabees and the Pastorals.” in Biblical Interpretation II (2, 2003).; Martin, Dale B. Sex and the Single Savior. Louisville:Westminster John Knox, 2006; Meyers, Carol, Leo G. Perdue, Joseph Blenkinsopp, and John J Collins. Families in Ancient Israel. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 1997.; Osiek, Carolyn and David L. Balch. Families in the New Testament World: Households and House Churches. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 1997.; Osiek, Carolyn, Margaret Y O’Donald and Janet H Tulloch. A Woman’s Place: House Churches in Earliest Christianity. Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress, 2006.; Pressler, Carolyn. “The ‘Biblical View of Marriage” in Engaging the Bible in a Gendered World (eds. Linda Day and Carolyn Pressler; Louisville: John Knox Press, 2006) 200-11.; Siddiqua Chaudhry, Ayesha, Rachel Muers and Randi Rashkover. “Women Reading Texts on Marriage” in Feminist Theology (2009) 191-209.; Schussler Fiorenza, Elisabeth. Sharing Her Word. Boston: Beacon Press, 1998.

History of Interpretation Papers

Theologies of the Fall, a Feminist Critique: Genesis 1-3 and John Milton’s Paradise Lost, Books 8-9
Primary Sources: “Genesis 1-4.” The Oxford Study Bible: Revised English Bible with the Apocrypha. Ed. M. Jack Suggs, et al. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992. 11-15.; Milton, John. Paradise Lost. The Norton Anthology of English Literature: Volume 1. 8th ed. Ed. Stephen Greenblatt. New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 2006. 1831-2055.
Secondary Sources: Anderson, Douglas. “Unfallen Marriage and the Fallen Imagination in Paradise Lost.” Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900. 26.1 Rice University (1986). 125-144. Feb. 12, 2012. .; Bloom, Harold. John Milton’s Paradise Lost: Modern Critical Interpretations. New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1987.; Bredbeck, Gregory W. “Milton’s Ganymede: Negotiations of Homoerotic Tradition in Paradise Regained.” PMLA. 106.2 (1991) Modern Language Association. 262-76. Feb. 12, 2012. .; Campbell, G. “Milton's Eden.” In A Walk in the Garden: Biblical, Iconographical and Literary Images of Eden (ed. Paul Morris and Deborah F. Sawyer; JSOTSup 136; Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1992) 220-228.; Gabel, John B. and Charles B. Wheeler. “Women and the Bible.” The Bible as Literature: an Introduction. 5th ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. 327-58.; Gilbert, Sandra M. “Patriarchal Poetry and Women Readers: Reflections on Milton’s Bogey.” PMLA. 93.3 (1978) Modern Language Association. 368-382. Feb. 12, 2012. .; Gross, Barry Edward. “Free Love and Free Will in Paradise Lost.” Studies in English Literature 1500-1900. 7.1 (1967) Rice University. 95-106. Feb. 12, 2012. .; Hendel, Ronald, Ed. Reading Genesis: Ten Methods. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.; Kimelman, Reuven. “The Seduction of Eve and the Exegetical Politics of Gender.” Biblical Interpretation. 4.1. (1996) Brandeis University. 1-39.; Kvam, Kristen E., Linda S. Schearing and Valerie H. Ziegler. Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Readings on Genesis and Gender. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999.; McColgan, Kristin Pruitt. “Abundant Gifts: Hierarchy and Reciprocity in ‘Paradise Lost’” South Central Review. 11.1 (1994) Johns Hopkins University Press. Feb. 12, 2012 .; Schwartz, Regina M. Remembering and Repeating Biblical Creation in Paradise Lost. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988.; Seaman, John E. The Moral Paradox of Paradise Lost. The Hague: Mouton and Co., 1971.; Summers, Joseph H. “The Two Great Sexes in Paradise Lost.” Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900. 2.1 (1962) Rice University 1-26. Feb. 12, 2012. .; Turner, James Grantham. One Flesh: Paradisal Marriage and Sexual Relations in the Age of Milton. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1987.; Williams, Arnold. “Renaissance Commentaries on ‘Genesis’ and Some Elements of the Theology of Paradise Lost.” PMLA. 56.1 Modern Language Association (1941) 151-164. Feb. 12, 2012. .

The Watchers, Their Wives & the Giants: Maternal Representations of Evil in Scripture and in Postmodern Horror Film (Genesis 6:1-4 & 1 Enoch)
Primary Texts: "1 (Ethiopic Apocalypse of) Enoch 1–36," trans. E. Isaac. In The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha, vol. 1, Apocalyptic Literature and Testaments (ed. James H. Charlesworth; New York: Doubleday, 1983) 5-29.; Alien; The Brood; The Exorcist; Rosemary's Baby
Secondary Literature: Badley, Linda. Film, Horror, and the Body Fantastic, Contributions to the Study of Popular Culture 48. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood, 1995.; Bautch, Kelly Coblentz. "What Becomes of the Watcher's Wives'? A Text-critical Study of 1 Enoch 19:2." Journal of Biblical Literature 125:4 (2006) 766-80.; BeDuhn, Jason D. "'Because of the Angels': Unveiling Paul's Anthropology in 1 Corinthians 11." Journal of Biblical Literature 118:2 (1999) 295-320.; Beterton, Rosemary. "Promising Mothers: Pregnant Bodies, Artistic Subjectivity and Maternal Imagination." Hypatia 21:1 (2006) 80-100.; Csicsery-Ronay, Istvan. "On the Grotesque in Science Fiction." Science Fiction Studies 29:1 (2002) 71-99.; England, Marcia. “Breached Bodies and Home Invasions: Horrific Representations of the Feminized Body and Home.” Gender, Place & Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography 13:4 (2006) 353-63.; Ferreira, Aline. “Artificial Wombs and Archaic Tombs: Angela Carter's The Passion of New Eve and the Alien Tetralogy.” Femspec 4:1 (2002) 90-107.; Grieg, A. Josef. "Genesis 6:1-4: The Female and the Fall." Michigan Quarterly Review 26:3 (1987) 483-96.; Heldreth, Leonard G, and Donald Palumbo. “The Beast Within: Sexuality and Metamorphosis in Horror Films.” In Eros In The Mind's Eye: Sexuality and the Fantastic in Art and Film (ed. Donald Palumbo; Contributions to the Study of Science Fiction and Fantasy; New York: Praeger, 1986) 117-126.; Ilan, Tal. "Women in the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha." In A Question of Sex? Gender and Difference in the Hebrew Bible and Beyond (ed. Deborah W. Rooke; Hebrew Bible Monographs 14; Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix, 2007) 126-44.; Kiesner, Jody. "Do You Want to Watch? A Study of the Visual Rhetoric of the Postmodern Horror Film." Women's Studies 37:4 (1994) 411-27.; Nickelsburg, George E. 1 Enoch: A Commentary on the Book of 1 Enoch, Hermeneia. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2001.; Olsen, Daniel C. "Those Who Have Not Defiled Themselves with Women'" Revelation 14:4 and the Book of Enoch." Catholic Biblical Quarterly 59:3 (1997) 492-510.; Squire, Corinne. “Safety, Danger and the Movies: Women's and Men's Narratives of Aggression.” Feminism & Psychology 4:4 (1994) 547-70.; Stuckenbruck, Loren T. "The 'Angels' and 'Giants' of Genesis 6:1-4 in Second and Third Century BCE Jewish Interpretation: Reflections on the Posture of Early Apocalyptic Traditions." Dead Sea Discoveries 7:3 (2000) 354-77.; Thornham, Sue, ed. Feminist Film Theory: A Reader. New York: New York University Press, 1999.; Valerius, Karyn. "Rosemary's Baby, Gothic Pregnancy adn Fetal Subjects." College Literature 32:3 (2005) 116-35.

Rethinking Sodom and Gomorrah's Sin (Genesis 19): Brueggemann, Walter, Terence E. Fretheim, Jr., Walter C. Kaiser and Leander E. Keck. "Genesis 19:1-38, Sodom and Gomorrah.” In New Interpreter's Bible, vol. 1, General & Old Testament Articles, Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus (Nashville: Abingdon, 1994) 470-79.; Elwood, Christopher. "A Singular Example of the Wrath of God: The Use of Sodom in Sixteenth-Century Exegesis." Harvard Theological Review 98:1 (2005) 67-93.; Martin, Dale. Sex and the Single Savior: Gender and Sexuality in Biblical Interpretation. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2006.; Schneider, Laurel C. "Queer Theory." In Handbook of Postmodern Biblical Interpretation (ed. A. K. M. Adam; St. Louis: Chalice Press, 2000) 206-212.; Toensing, Holly Joan. "Women Of Sodom And Gomorrah: Collateral Damage in the War against Homosexuality?" Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion 21:2 (2005) 61-74.; Via, Dan O. and Robert A. J. Gagnon. Homosexuality and the Bible: Two Views. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2003.

The Rape of Dinah from Classic and Feminist Perspectives (Genesis 34): Aalders, G. C. Genesis Vol. 2. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1981.; Bechtel, L. M. "What If Dinah Is Not Raped? (Genesis 34)." Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 19.62 (1994): 19-36.; Blyth, Caroline. "Terrible Silence, Eternal Silence: A Feminist Re-reading of Dinah's Voicelessness in Genesis 34." Biblical Interpretation 17:5 (2009) 483-506.; Calvin, John. Commentaries on the First Book of Moses Called Genesis, Vol. 2 (trans. John King). Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1948.; Clark, Ron. "The Silence in Dinah's Cry." Journal of Religion & Abuse 2.4 (2001): 81-98.; Day, Linda Carolyn Pressler, eds. Engaging the Bible in a Gendered World: An Introduction to Feminist Biblical Interpretation in Honor of Katharine Doob Sakenfeld. Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox, 2006.; Fewell, Danna N., and David M. Gunn. "Tipping the Balance: Sternberg's Reader and the Rape of Dinah." Journal of Biblical Literature 110.2 (1991): 193-211.; Jerome, letter 22.25, Select Letters of St. Jerome (trans. F.A. Wright). Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1963.; Keefe, A. "Rapes of Women/Wars of Men." Semeia 61 (1993) 79-97.; Luther, Martin. Luther’s Works, American Edition: 55 vols. St. Louis: Concordia and Philadelphia: Fortress, 1955-1986.; Noble, Paul. "A ‘Balanced’ Reading of the Rape of Dinah: Some Exegetical and Methodological Observations." Biblical Interpretation: A Journal of Contemporary Approaches 4.2 (1996): 173-203.; Parry, Robin. "Feminist Hermeneutics and Evangelical Concerns." Tyndale Bulletin 53.1 (2002): 1-28.; Scholz, Susanne. “Through Whose Eyes? A ‘Right’ Reading of Genesis 34.” In Genesis: A Feminist Companion to the Bible (2nd Series) (ed. A. Brenner; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic, 1998), 150-71.; --------.“What ‘Really’ Happened to Dinah: A Feminist Analysis of Genesis 34.” Lectio Difficilior 2 (2001): 1-15.; Schroeder, Joy A. "The Rape of Dinah: Luther's Interpretation of a Biblical Narrative." Sixteenth Century Journal 28.3 (1997): 775-91.; Segal, Naomi, Review of The Poetics of Biblical Narrative, VT 28 (1988). 247-248.; Sheres, Ita. Dinah’s Rebellion: A Biblical Parable for Our Time. New York: Crossroad. 1990.

The Threat of Schism: The Debate over the Ordination of Women and Homosexuals in the Anglican Communion: “Archives 1976." The Episcopal Church (2007) Online, http://www.episcopalchurch.org/, 1 March 2008.; “Archives 1994." The Episcopal Church (2007). Online, http://www.episcopalchurch.org/, 1 March 2008.; Conlon, Michael. "Episcopal Church Faces Divisions Over Gay Issues." Reuters Online (4 May 2007). Online, http://africa.reuters.com/top/news/usnBAN423885.html, 2 March 2008.; Djupe, Paul A., Laura R. Olson, Christopher P. Gilbert. "Whether to Adopt Statements on Homosexuality in Two Denominations: A Research Note." Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion (2006) 609-621.; Furnish, Victor Paul. "The Bible and Homosexuality: Reading the Texts in Context." In Homosexuality in the Church: Both Sides of the Debate (ed. Jeffrey S. Siker, Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 1994) 18-35.; Gagnon, Robert. The Bible and Homosexual Practice (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2001) 229-339.; “History of the Church." The Church of England (2004). Online http://www.cofe.anglican.org/about/history/, 12 February 2008.; “History." Lambeth Palace Library (2006). Online http://www.lambethpalacelibrary.org/, 12 February 2008.; “History." The Anglican Communion Official Website (2007). Online http://www.anglicancommunion.org/, 12 February 2008.; Jenkins, Phillip. "Global Schism: Is the Anglican Communion Rift the First Stage in a Wider Christian Split?” Faith Angle Conference, Key West, Florida (May 14, 2007). Online, http://pewforum.org/events/?EventID=145, 2 March 2008.; Jenkins, William. "Episcopalians, Homosexuality, and World Mission." Anglican Theological Review (2004) 293-316.; Kirby, Alex. "Anglican Brethren Meet Among Divisions." BBC News Online (20 July 1998). Online, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/135344.stm, 25 February 2008.; LaCugna, Catherine Mowry. "Catholic Women as Ministers and Theologians." America 167 (10 October 1992) 238-248.; Martin, Dale. Sex and the Single Savior: Gender and Sexuality in Biblical Interpretation. Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2006.; Moore, Gareth. A Question of Truth (London: Continuum, 2003) 1-117.; Murphy, Catherine. "Notes." Course lecture for SCTR 165R, Gender and Sexuality in Biblical Interpretation, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, California, 15 February 2008.; ”News." Church of England (2007) online, http://www.cofe.anglican.org, 1 March 2008.; Prelinger, Catherine. Episcopal Women. New York: Oxford University Press 1992; Purvis, Sally B. The Stained Glass Ceiling. Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 1995.; Ramirez, Margaret. "Anti-gay Anglican Archbishop Speaks in Wheaton." Chicago Tribune Online (24 September 2007). Online, http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-akinola/, 18 February 2008.; Robinson, Bruce A. "Female Ordination in the Episcopal Church of the United States,” Religious Tolerance.Org (2006). Online, http://www.religioustolerance.org/femclrg14.htm, 15 March 2008.; Schultz, Rima Lunin. "Woman’s Work and Woman’s Calling in the Episcopal Church: Chicago, 1880-1989." In Episcopal Women (New York: Oxford University Press, 1992) 19-71.; Skidmore, David. "1998-08-07." Lambeth Conference 1998 Archives (1998) online, http://www.lambethconference.org/1998/news/lc098.cfm, 1 March 2008.; Sullins, Paul. "The Stained Glass Ceiling: Career Attainment for Women Clergy." Sociology of Religion (2000) 243-266.; Sullivan, Nikki. "The Social Construction of Same-Sex Desire: Sin, Crime and Sickness." In A Critical Introduction to Queer Theory (New York: New York University Press, 2003) 1-21.

Women’s Ordination in the Catholic Church: See the page dedicated to this topic.

Gendering Jesus in Christian Art: A History of Interpretation: Alliaume, Karen Trimble. “The Risks of Repeating Ourselves: Reading Feminist/Womanist Figures of Jesus.” Cross Currents 48:2 (1998) 198-217.; Barolsky, Paul. “The Genitals of Jesus in Perspective, (The Sexuality of Jesus in Art). Notes in the History of Art 26:1 (2006).; Buell, Denise Kimber. “Cyborg Memories: An Impure History of Jesus.” Biblical Interpretation 18:4-5 (2010) 313-341.; Goldberg, Jonathan. Queering the Renaissance. Durham: Duke University Press, 1994.; Kleiner, Fred S. and Christin J. Mamiya. Gardner’s Art Through the Ages: The Western Perspective, Vol. I. Belmont: Thomson Wadsworth, 2006.; Martin, Dale B. Sex and the Single Savior: Gender and Sexuality in Biblical Interpretation. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2006.; Mathews, Thomas F. The Clash of Gods: A Reinterpretation of Early Christian Art. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993.; Miles, Margaret R. “Nudity, Gender, and Religious Meaning in the Italian Renaissance.” Art as Religious Studies (ed. Doug Adams and Diane Apstolos-Cappadona; New York: Crossroad, 1987) 101-116.; Moore, Stephen D. “Ugly Thoughts: On the Face and Physique of the Historical Jesus.” In Biblical Studies/Cultural Studies: The Third Sheffield Colloquium (ed. J. Cheryl Exum and Stephen D. Moore; Gender, Culture, Theory 7/JSOTSup266; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1998) 376-99.; Moxnes, Halvor. “Jesus in Gender Trouble.” Cross Currents 54:3 (2004) 31-46.; Schneider, Laurel C., “Queer Theory,” in Handbook of Postmodern Biblical Interpretation (ed. A.K.M. Adam; St. Louis: Chalice, 2000).; Steinberg, Leo. The Sexuality of Christ in Renaissance Art and in Modern Oblivion. New York: Pantheon Books, 1983.; Tolbert, Mary Ann, “Gender,” in Handbook of Postmodern Biblical Criticism (ed. A.K.M. Adam; St. Louis: Chalice, 2000).

Womanist Critique on African American Preaching: Angelou, Maya, And Still I Rise (New York: Random House, 1978) 42.; Cannon, Katie G. “Womanist Interpretation and Preaching in the Black Church.” In Searching the Scriptures, vol. 2, A Feminist Introduction (ed. Elizabeth Schüssler Fiorenza; New York, New York: Crossroad, 1993) 326-337.; Cooper, Valerie C. “Some Place to Cry: Jephthah’s Daughter and the Double Dilemma of Black Women in America.” In Pregnant Passion (ed. Cheryl A. Kirk-Duggan; Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2003) 181-192.; Grant, Jacquelyn. “Womanist Theology: Black Women’s Experience as a Source for Doing Theology with Special Reference to Christology.” In African American Religious Studies: An Interdisciplinary Anthology (ed. Gayraud Wilmore; Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1989) 208-227.; Junior, Nyasha. “Womanist Biblical Interpretation.” In Engaging the Bible in a Gendered World (ed. Linda Day and Carolyn Pressler; Louisville, London: Westminster John Knox Press, 2006) 37-46.; Lincoln, C. Eric. “The Development of Black Religion in American.” In African American Religious Studies: An Interdisciplinary Anthology (ed. Gayraud Wilmore; Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1989) 5-21.; McCall, Robin C. “’Most Beautiful Among Women’: Feminist/Womanist Contributions to Reading the Song of Songs,” Review and Expositor 105 (2008) 420.; Smith, Tony, Pastor Tony Smith: Fixing These Marriages, Part 3. May 11, 2009; 9 min., 48 sec. From YouTube, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EgG03j9ohA.; Walker, Alice, “In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens.” In Black Theology: A Documentary History, 1966-1979 (ed. Gayraud S. Wilmore and James H. Cone; Maryknoll: Orbis Books, 1979) 434-444.; Weems, Renita J. Just a Sister Away: A Womanist Vision of Women’s Relationships in the Bible. LuraMedia: San Diego, 1988.; --------. “Rereading for Liberation: African American Women and the Bible.” In Feminist Interpretation of the Bible and the Hermeneutics of Liberation (ed. Silvia Schroer and Sophia Bietenhard; New York: Sheffield, 2003)19-32.; Wilmore, Gayraud. S., Black Theology: A Documentary History, 1966-1979 (ed. Gayraud S. Wilmore and James H. Cone; Maryknoll: Orbis Books, 1979) 363-367.

Deconstructing Empire: A Feminist Analysis of George W. Bush’s Use of the Bible in a 9/11 Memorial Speech: Bach, Alice. “Bush’s Bible: A Wild Beast Loosed Upon the World.” Postscripts 2:1 (2006) 109-125.; Bacchetta, Paola et. al. “Transnational Feminist Practices Against War.” Meridians 2:2 (2002) 302-308.; Bush, George W. “Vigilance and Memory: Transcript of President Bush.” The New York Times Online (12 September 2002, late edition). Online, http://www.nytimes.com, 12 February 2010.; Castelli, Elizabeth. “Globalization, Transnational Feminisms, and the Future of Biblical Critique.” In Feminist New Testament Studies (ed. Kathleen O’Brien Wicker, Althea Spencer Miller, and Musa W. Dube; New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005) 63-78.; Chapman, Stephen. “Imperial Exegesis: When Caesar Interprets Scripture.” In Anxious About Empire (ed. Wes Abram; Grand Rapids, Michigan: Brazos Press, 2004) 91-102.; Dube, Musa. “Rahab is Hanging Out a Red Ribbon: One African Woman’s Perspective on the Future of Feminist New Testament Scholarship.” In Feminist New Testament Studies: Global and Future Perspectives (ed. Kathleen O’Brien Wicker, Althea Spencer Miller, and Musa W. Dube. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005) 177-202.; Kwok, Pui-lan. “Feminist Theology and the New Imperialism.” Political Theology 8:2 (2007) 144-155.; “Last Year Deadliest Yet for Afghan Civilians.” UN News Centre (12 January 2010), online, http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=33473&Cr=afghan&Cr1, 13 March 2010.; Moallem, Minoo. “Violence of Protection.” In Interventions: Activists and Academics Respond to Violence (ed. Elizabeth Castelli and Janet Jacobsen; New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004) 47-51.; Moallem, Minoo. “Whose Fundamentalism?” Meridians 2:2 (2002) 298-301.; Murphy, John M. “Our Mission and Our Moment: George W. Bush and September 11th. Rhetoric & Public Affairs 6.4 (2003) 607-632.; Obama, Barack. “Inaugural Address.” New York Times Online (20 January 2009). Online, http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/20/us/politics/20text-obama.html, 15 March 2010.; “Press Conference by Special Representative on Children and Armed Conflict,” United Nations website (1 March 2010) http://www.un.org/News/briefings/docs/2010/100301_Children.doc.htm, 13 March 2010.; Runions, Erin. “Biblical Promise and Threat in U.S. Imperialist Rhetoric Before and After September 11, 2001.” The Scholar and Feminist Online 2:2 (Winter 2004). Online, www.barnard.edu/sfonline, 12 February 2010.; “Statement by Revolutionary Women of Afghanistan (RAWA).” Meridians 2:2 (2002) 266-267.

Biblical Texts as Judicial Case Law: The Role of the Bible in Debates over Same-Sex Rites
Case Law
: Bowers v. Hardwick (1986); Romer v. Evans (1996); Powell v. State of Georgia (1998); Lawrence and Garner v. Texas (2003)
Secondary Literature
: Blevins, John. "Broadening the Family of God: Debating Same-sex Marriage and Queer Families in America." Theology and Sexuality 12 (2005) 63-80.; Cushing, Lesleigh Stahlberg. "Modern Day Moabites: The Bible and the Debate about Same-sex Marriage." Biblical Interpretation 16:5 (2008) 442-75.; Fulco, Adrienne and David W, Machacek "The Courts and Public Discourse: The Case of Gay Marriage." Journal of Church & State 46 (2004) 767-85.; Jakobsen, Janet and Ann Pellegrini. Love the Sin: Sexual Regulation and the Limits of Religious Tolerance. Boston: Beacon, 2004.; Sullivan, Nikki. A Critical Introduction to Queer Theory. New York: New York University Press, 2003.; Tumwesigye, John. "The Church in Defense of the Institution of Marriage against Homosexuality." African Ecclesial Review (AFER) 46 (2004) 366-79.

Theoretical Papers

The Problem of Human and God Language in Feminist Discourse: Burrows, Mark S. “Naming the God Beyond Names: Wisdom From the Tradition on the Old Problem of God-Language.” Modern Theology, vol. 9 no 1, Jan 1993, p 37- 53.; Cheng, Patrick S. “Multiplicity and Judges 19: Constructing a Queer Asian Pacific American Biblical Hermeneutic,” Semeia 90-91 (2002) 119-133.; Claassens, L. Juliana M. “Rupturing God-Language: The Metaphor of God as Midwife in Psalm 22.” In Engaging the Bible in a Gendered World: An Introduction to Feminist Biblical Interpretation in Honor of Katharine Doob Sakenfield (ed. Linda Day and Carolyn Pressler; Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2006) 166-175.; McFague, Sallie. “Mother God.” In The Power of Naming: A Concilium Reader in Feminist Liberation Theology (ed. Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza; New York: Orbis Books, 1996) 324-329.; Neuger, Christie Cozad. “Image and Imagination: Why Inclusive Language Matters.” In Engaging the Bible in a Gendered World: An Introduction to Feminist Biblical Interpretation in Honor of Katharine Doob Sakenfield (ed. Linda Day and Carolyn Pressler; Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2006) 153-165.; Schneider, Laurel C. “Queer Theory,” in Handbook of Postmodern Biblical Interpretation (ed. A.K.M. Adam; St. Louis: Chalice, 2000) 206-212.

Suppressing Oppression: How Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza Undermines Her Feminist Project: Source

Activism Papers

Not Today, Maybe Tomorrow: Relating Feminism and Queer Theory in the Activist and Academic Arenas: Brown, Wendy. “The Impossibility of Women's Studies.” Differences 9 (1997) 79-102.; Chavez, Karma R. “Beyond Complicity: Coherence, Queer Theory, and the Rhetoric of the ‘Gay Christian Movement.” Text and Performance Quarterly 24:3/4 (July/October 2004) 255-275.; Day, Linda and Carolyn Pressler, eds. Engaging the Bible in a Gendered World: An Introduction to Feminist Biblical Interpretation in Honor of Katharine Doob Sakenfeld. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2006.; Dillon, Michele. Catholic Identity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.; Guest, Deryn and Robert E. Goss, Mona West, and Thomas Bohache. The Queer Bible Commentary. London: SCM Press, 2006.; Helminiak, Daniel A. “FAQs: Catholicism, Homosexuality, and Dignity.” Dignity USA (2000). Online, http://www.dignityusa.org/faq.html#2. 1 March 2008.; “Introduction." The Women’s Ordination Conference. Online, http://www.womensordination.org/intro.html. 1 March 2008.; Jordon, Mark. Silence of Sodom. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000.; Macwilliam, Stuart. "Queering Jeremiah." Biblical Interpretation 10:4 (2002) 384-404.; Martin, Dale. Sex and the Single Savior: Gender and Sexuality in Biblical Interpretation. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2006.; Meehan, Bridget Mary. “Yes! Women Priests and Bishops in the Early Christian Community and Now!.” The Women’s Ordination Conference. Online, http://www.womensordination.org/pages/art_pages/art_Meehan.html. 1 March 2008.; Newsom, Carol A. and Sharon H. Ringe eds. Women’s Bible Commentary. Louisville, Kentucky: Westminster John Knox Press, 1998.; Schneider, Laurel C. “Queer Theory.” In Handbook of Postmodern Biblical Interpretation (ed. A. K. M. Adam; St. Louis: Chalice Press, 2000) 206-212.; Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty. “Subaltern Studies: Deconstructing Historiography.”; Sullivan, Nikki. A Critical Introduction to Queer Theory. New York: New York University Press, 2003. Tolbert, Mary Ann. “Gender.” In Handbook of Postmodern Biblical Interpretation (ed. A. K. M. Adam; St. Louis: Chalice Press, 2000) 99-105.; West, Mona. “Queer Spirituality.” The Metropolitan Community Church. Online, http://www.mccchurch.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=Sexuality_Spirituality&Template=/CM/HTMLDisplay.cfm&ContentID=614#queerspirit. 1 March 2008.; “What is Dignity.” Dignity USA. Online, http://www.dignityusa.org/whatis.html#vision. 1 March 2008.; “Why Ordination.” The Women’s Ordination Conference. Online, http://www.womensordination.org/why.html. 1 March 2008.; Yip, Andrew K. T. “Queering Religious Texts.” Sociology 39:47 (2005) 47-65.

Dignity USA’s Interpretation of Same-Sex Passages in the Bible: Anonymous, “Frequently Asked Questions–Catholicism and Homosexuality,” Dignity USA; online, http://www.dignityusa.org/content/what-dignity, 4 March 2010.; Anonymous. “What Is Dignity.” Dignity USA (2008). Online, http://www.dignityusa.org/content/ what-dignity, 4 March 2010.; Gagnon, Robert A. J. The Bible and Homosexual Practice: Texts and Hermeneutics. Nashville: Abingdon, 2001.; Helminiak, Daniel A. The Bible on Homosexuality: Ethically Neutral,” in Same Sex: Debating the Ethics, Science, and Culture of Homosexuality (ed. John Corvino; Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, 1997) 81-92.; Helminiak, Daniel A. What the Bible Really Says About Homosexuality. New Mexico: Alamo Square Press, 2000.; Martin, Dale B. Sex and the Single Savior. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2006.; NCCB Committee on Marriage and Family. “Always Our Children: A Pastoral Message to Parents of Homosexual Children and Suggestions for Pastoral Ministers.” United States Conference of Catholic Bishops; online, http://www.usccb.org/laity/always.shtml, 2 March 2010.; Sayler, Gwen. "Adam and Eve/Adam and Steve? A Challenge to the Hermeneutical 'Complementarity' Argument. Currents in Thelogy and Mission 33:5 (October 2006), 406.; Schmidt, Thomas E. "Romans 1:26-27 and Biblical Sexuality." In Same Sex: Debating the Ethics, Science, and Culture of Homosexuality (ed. John Corvino; Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, 1997) 93-106.; Seper, Franjo Cardinal. “Persona Humana: Declaration on Certain Questions Concerning Sexual Ethics.” The Vatican; online, http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/ documents/rc_con_cfaith_doc_19751229_persona-humana_en.html, 2 March 2010.; White, Heather Rachelle. “Proclaiming Liberation: The Historical Roots of LGBT Religious Organizing, 1946-1976.” Nova Religio 11:4 (2008).

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