Topics > Gender

Bibliography

• Selected Bibliography of Women in the Old Testament - compiled by Susan M. Pigott, Hardin-Simmons University

Equality and Hierarchy

• Culture, Leadership, and Symbolism in the Old Testament - by Carol Stuhlmueller, from Women and Priesthood: Future Directions, 25-45
• Is the Bible Bad News for Women? - by Cullen Murphy, Wilson Quarterly 22.3 (1998) 14ff.; Northern Light Special Collections document priced at $2.95
• Luther on Gender Relations—Just One Reading of Genesis? - by Christoph Bultmann, Currents in Theology and Mission (December 2002)

Gendered Language

• 'Femenino': Origen Ideológico de una Palabra - by Miguel Ángel Núñez, DavarLogos 1.1 (2002); abstract only

Honor and Shame

• The Mediterranean concepts of honour and shame as seen in the depiction of the biblical women - by Renata Rabichev, Religion & Theology 3/1 (1996)

Image of God

• The Incomprehensibility of God and the Image of God Male and Female - by Elizabeth Johnson, Theological Studies 45.3 (1984) 441-465
• Male and Female as the Image of God - by August H. Konkel, Didaskalia 3.2 (1992) 1-8; abstract

Law

• Women in Old Testament Legal Procedures ( HTML | PDF ) - by Erhard S. Gerstenberger, lectio dificilior (2005)

Masculinity

• David the Man: The Construction of Masculinity in the Hebrew Bible - by David J A Clines, published in Interested Parties: The Ideology of Writers and Readers of the Hebrew Bible (Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement Series, 205; Gender, Culture, Theory, 1; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1995), pp. 212-41

Book Reviews

• Matthews, Victor H., Bernard M. Levinson, and Tikva Frymer-Kensky, eds., Gender and Law in the Hebrew Bible and the Ancient Near East - reviewed by Gary N. Knoppers, Review of Biblical Literature (2001)
• Porter, Jeanne, Leading Ladies: Transformative Biblical Images for Women's Leadership (Innisfree Press, 2000) - reviewed by Connie Kleingartner, Currents in Theology and Mission (April 2004)
• Schaberg, Jane, Esther Fuchs, and Alice Bach, eds., On the Cutting Edge: The Study of Women in Biblical Worlds: Essays in Honor of Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza (Continuum, 2003) - reviewed by Lillian Klein-Abensohn, Review of Biblical Literature (2004)