OUTSIDE SOURCES:
ARTICLES
17 African American Women Theologians You Should Know About” by Emmanuella Carter
“The Bible Passes the Bechdel Test. It Also Goes Beyond It.” by John Dyer in Christianity Today (October 28, 2020)
"Complementarianiam Examined" by Scot McKnight
“Enemies, Romans, Pigs, and Dogs: Loving the Other in the Gospel of Matthew” by Love L. Sechrest
From the Editor: “A Fuller Vision of the Whole People of God”
"From the Pulpit to the Academy--Latinx Scriptural Hermeneutics" by Leticia A. Guardiola-Sáenz
How I Learned the Difference Between Humility and Humiliation
“I Return to Music Increasingly”: An Interview with Margot Fassler
"Reclaiming the Hebrew Bible for Women: The Neoliberal Turn in Contemporary Feminist Scholarship" by Esther Fuchs in Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion (2008)
Sisters, Speak by Rachel Held Evans
When Men and Women Ministered Together as Equals…in the Early Church
“Will We Do Something or Won’t We?”: An Interview with Kaji Douša ’06 M.Div.
Women and the Pulpit: An Interview with Lenora Tubbs Tisdale
“Women of the Bible Say #MeToo” by Ruth Everhart
Women in the Bible published by The Center for Christian Ethics, Baylor University
BIBLE STUDIES
Women in scripture : a dictionary of named and unnamed women in the Hebrew Bible, is a resource that houses every one of the women listed on our website. If you would like to learn more about any one of these women, visit this link.
BOOKS
Women in scripture : a dictionary of named and unnamed women in the Hebrew Bible, is a resource that houses every one of the women listed on our website. If you would like to learn more about any one of these women, visit this link.
Feminist/Womanist Biblical Interpretation
Engaging the Bible in a Gendered World edited by Linda Day and Carolyn Pressler (2006)
Eve Isn't Evil: Feminist Readings of the Bible to Upend Our Assumptions by Julie Faith Parker (2023)
Feminist Interpretation of the Bible edited by Letty M. Russel (1985)
The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and Gender Studies edited by Julia M. O'Brien (2014)
Great Women of the Bible in Art and Literature by Dorothee Solle (2006)
I Found God in Me: A Womanist Biblical Hermeneutics Reader edited by Mitzi J. Smith (2015)
Postcolonial Feminist Interpretation of the Bible by Musa W. Dube (2000)
Reading the Bible from the Margins by Miguel A. de la Torre (2002)
Jesus and Beyond: Beyond Feminism by Niamh M. Middleton (2022)
Biblical Women
The Bible and Women: An Encyclopedia of Exegesis and Cultural History series
Bible Women: All Their Words and Why They Matter by Lindsay Hardin Freeman (2014)
Consider the Women: A Provocative Guide to Three Matriarchs of the Bible by Debbie Blue (2019)
Not Counting Women and Children: Neglected Stories from the Bible by Megan McKenna (1994)
Reframing Her: Biblical Women in Postcolonial Focus by Judith E. McKinlay (2004)
Sarah Laughed: Modern Lessons From the Wisdom & Stories of Biblical Women by Vanessa L. Ochs (2005)
Tell Her Story: How Women Led, Taught, and Ministered in the Early Church by Nijay K. Gupta (2023)
Old Testament/Hebrew Bible
Are We Amused? Humour About Women in the Biblical World by Athalya Brenner-Idan (2004)
Countertraditions in the Bible: A Feminist Approach by Ilana Pardes (1992)
Daughters of Miriam: Women Prophets in Ancient Israel by Wilda C. Gafney (2008)
Defiant: What the Women of Exodus Teach Us About Freedom by Kelley Nikondeha (2020)
Feminist Interpretation of the Hebrew Bible in Retrospect edited by Susanne Scholz (2013)
Fragmented Women: Feminist (Sub)versions of Biblical Narratives by J. Cheryl Exum (1993)
God of Violence Yesterday, God of Love Today? by Helen Paynter (2019)
Helpmates, Harlots, and Heroes: Women's Stories in the Hebrew Bible by Alice Ogden Bells (1994)
I Am: Biblical Women Tell Their Own Stories by Athalya Brenner (2005)
The Oxford Handbook of Feminist Approaches to the Hebrew Bible edited by Susanne Scholz (2020)
Postcolonialism and the Hebrew Bible: The Next Step edited by Roland Boer (2013)
Reading the Women of the Bible by Tikva Frymer-Kensky (2002)
Stories of Biblical Mothers: Maternal Power in the Hebrew Bible by Leila Leah Bronner (2004)
Whispering the Word: Hearing Women’s Stories in the Old Testament by Jacqueline E. Lapsley (2005)
Woman’s Body and the Social Body in Hosea 1-2 by Alice A. Keefe (2002)
Women in the Biblical World: A Study Guide by Mayer L. Gruber (1995)
Women in the Pentateuch: A Feminist and Source-Critical Analysis by Sarah Shectman (2009)
The Women of Genesis: From Sarah to Potiphar's Wife by Sharon Pace Jeansonne (1990)
Women Who Wrestled with God: Biblical Stories of Israel's Beginnings byIrmtraud Fischer (2005)
New Testament
Discovering Biblical Equality by Ronald W. Pierce and Rebecca Merrill Groothuis (2005)
Engaging the Word: The New Testament and the Christian Believer by Jaime Clark-Soles (2010)
Seeing for Ourselves: Biblical Women Who Met Jesus by Katerina Katsarka Whitley (2001)
A Woman Reads the Gospel of Luke by Loretta C. Dornisch (2002)
Women and Jesus in Mark: A Japanese Feminist Perspective by Hisako Kinukawa (2003)
Women in the New Testament by Mary Ann Getty-Sullivan (2001)
History of Women in Christianity
Redeemed Bodies: Women Martyrs in Early Christianity by Gail P.C. Street (2009)
Women in the World of the Earliest Christians: Illuminating Ancient Ways of Life by Lynn Cohick (2009)
Women of Bible Lands: A Pilgrimage to Compassion and Wisdom by Martha Ann Kirk (2004)
Women Officeholders in Early Christianity: Epigraphical and Literary Studies by Ute E. Eisen (2000)
Feminist/Womanist Theology
Feminist Theology from the Third World: A Reader edited by Ursula King (2015)
Hope Abundant: Third World and Indigenous Women's Theology edited by Kwok Pui-lan (1995)
Icons of Christ: A Biblical and Systematic Theology for Women’s Ordination by William G. Witt
On Earth As In Heaven: A Liberation Theology of Sharing by Dorothee Soelle (1993)
Our Cry for Life: Feminist Theology from Latin America by María Pilar Aquino (2002)
Parable of the Brown Girl: The Sacred Lives of Girls of Color by Khristi Lauren Adams (2020)
Postcolonial Imagination & Feminist Theology by Kwok Pui-lan (2005)
Sexism and God-Talk: Toward a Feminist Theology by Rosemary R. Ruether (1993)
Sex, Race, and God: Christian Feminism in Black and White by Susan Thistlethwaite (1989)
She Who Is: The Mystery of God in Feminist Theological Discourse by Elizabeth A. Johnson (2017)
Sisters in the Wilderness: The Challenge of Womanist God-Talk by Delores S. Williams (1993)
Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom by bell hooks (1994)
WomanPrayer WomanSong: Resources for Ritual by Miriam Therese Winter (1993)
Women and the Authority of Scripture: A Narrative Approach by Sarah Heaner Lancaster (2002)