Required Books:
Day, Linda, and Carolyn Pressler, eds. Engaging the Bible in a Gendered World. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2006. ISBN: 978-0664229108.
Smith, Mitzi. I Found God in Me: A Womanist Biblical Hermeneutics Reader. Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2015. ISBN: 9781625647450. Available online through UR Libraries.*
Byron, Gay L., and Vanessa Lovelace, eds. Womanist Interpretations of the Bible: Expanding the Discourse. Atlanta: SBL Press, 2016. ISBN: 978-1628371529.
Recommended Books:
Newsome, Carol, et al., eds. Women’s Bible Commentary. 3rd ed. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2012.
Choi, Jin Young. Postcolonial Discipleship of Embodiment: An Asian and Asian American Feminist Reading of the Gospel of Mark. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
Dube, Musa W. Postcolonial Feminist Interpretation of the Bible. St. Louis: Chalice Press, 2000.
Gafney, Wilda C. Womanist Midrash: A Reintroduction to the Women of the Torah and the Throne. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2017.
Junior, Nasha. An Introduction to Womanist Interpretation. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2015.
Kirk-Duggan, Cheryl A., ed. Pregnant Passion: Gender, Sex, and Violence in the Bible. Atlanta: SBL, 2003.
Kraemer, Ross Shepard and Mary Rose D’Angelo, eds. Women and Christian Origins. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.
Kwok, Pui-lan, ed. Hope Abundant: Third World and Indigenous Women’s Theology. Maryknoll: Orbis Books, 2010.
Scholz, Susanne, ed. Biblical Studies Alternatively: An Introductory Reader. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson, 2002.
Schüssler Fiorenza, Elisabeth, ed. Searching the Scripture: A Feminist Introduction. London: SCM Press, 1993.
Bread Not Stone: The Challenge of Feminist Biblical Interpretation. Boston: Beacon, 1995.
Schroer, Silvia & Sophia Bietenhard, eds. Feminist Interpretation of the Bible and the Hermeneutics of Liberation. New York: Sheffield Academic Press, 2003.
Smith, Mitzi J. & Jin Young Choi, eds. Minoritized Women Reading Race/Ethnicity: Intersectional Approaches to Constructed Identity and Early Christian Texts. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2020.
Trible, Phyllis. Texts of Terror: Literary-Feminist Readings of Biblical Narratives. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1984.
Weems, Renita J. Battered Love: Marriage, Sex, and Violence in the Hebrew Prophets. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1995.
Yee, Gale. Poor Banished Children of Eve: Women as Evil in the Hebrew Bible. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2003.
The Hebrew Bible: Feminist and Intersectional Perspectives. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2018.
* Electronic copies of other required readings for the courses will be provided.