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Ruth

Alice L Laffey, Mahri Leonard-Fleckman, Barbara E. Reid

This volume, using multiple methods, seeks to bring together the best scholarship and insight-Jewish and Christian, past and present-that has contributed to our understanding and appreciation of the biblical book of Ruth. As a feminist...

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Song of Songs

F. Scott Spencer, Barbara E. Reid, Lauress Wilkins Lawrence

Arguably the biggest blockbuster love song ever composed, the Song of Songs holds a unique place in Jewish and Christian canons as the "holiest" book, in the minds of some readers, and the sexiest in its language and imagery. This commentary aims...

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Judges

Mercedes L. García Bachmann, Barbara E. Reid, Ahida Pilarski

A woman called blessed for killing a Canaanite general; another called “Mother in Israel” for leading troops into war; several other mothers absent when their children need them; a judge, Deborah, with a proper name and a recognized place for public...

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Judith

Jennifer L. Koosed, Robert Paul Seesengood, Barbara E. Reid

2023 Catholic Media Association First Place Award, Scripture – Academic Studies The striking scene of Judith cutting off Holofernes’s head with his own sword in his own bed has inspired the imaginations of readers for...

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Leviticus

S. Tamar Kamionkowski, Barbara E. Reid, Lauress Wilkins Lawrence

The book of Leviticus provides two different theologies related to God's presence within ancient Israel. Leviticus 1-16 was written by an elite caste of priests (P) and Leviticus 17-26 (H) was added to the book to "democratize" access to God....

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Psalms

Denise Dombkowski Hopkins, Barbara E. Reid, Linda M. Maloney

Many readers are convinced that the Psalms are hopelessly "masculine," especially given that seventy-three of the 150 psalms begin with headings linking them to King David. In this volume, Denise Dombkowski Hopkins sets stories about women in the...

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Ezra-Nehemiah

Deborah A. Appler, Terry Ann Smith, Amy-Jill Levine

In this volume, Deborah Appler and Terry Ann Smith offer a sustained investigation and feminist critique of Ezra-Nehemiah that moves beyond traditional historical and theological interpretations of Ezra-Nehemiah. Their intersectional analysis...

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2 Kings

Song-Mi Suzie Park, Barbara E. Reid, Ahida Pilarski

The Second Book of Kings—a book whose very title seems to assert the prerogative of male rule—is in fact filled with fascinating female characters as well as issues related to gender. In this commentary, Song-Mi Suzie Park argues that an...

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Tobit

Michele Murray, Barbara E. Reid, Amy-Jill Levine

Blindness by bird excrement, seven husbands murdered by a love-sick demon, a father with the corpses of his sons-in-law interred in the backyard, and a magical fish. These farcical elements make the book of Tobit a striking work of humorous...

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Qoheleth (Ecclesiastes)

Lisa M. Wolfe, Barbara E. Reid, Athalya Brenner-Idan

2021 Catholic Media Association Award third place award in academic studies Qoheleth, also called Ecclesiastes, has been bad news for women throughout history. In this commentary Lisa Wolfe offers intriguing new...

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Psalms, Books 4-5

Nancy L. deClaisse-Walford, Barbara E. Reid, Linda M. Maloney

"This commentary on Psalms, Books 4-5 provides a feminist interpretation of Scripture in serious, scholarly engagement with the whole text, not only those texts that explicitly mention women. It addresses not only issues of gender but also those of...

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Proverbs

Alice Ogden Bellis, Barbara E. Reid, Sarah Tanzer

2019 Association of Catholic Publishers Book of the YearIn this volume, Alice Ogden Bellis considers the book of Proverbs as a structural whole, the sages having designed it in such a way as to make positive statements about...

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Baruch and the Letter of Jeremiah

Marie-Theres Wacker, Barbara E. Reid, Carol J. Dempsey, OP

Baruch and the Letter of Jeremiah are among the so-called deuterocanonical books of the Bible, part of the larger Catholic biblical canon. Except for a short article in the Women's Bible Commentary, no detailed or comprehensive feminist commentary...

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Lamentations

Gina Hens-Piazza, Barbara E. Reid, Carol J. Dempsey, OP

Though the five poems of Lamentations undoubtedly refer to the Babylonian siege and destruction of Jerusalem in 587 BCE, the multiple voices that narrate unspeakable suffering and labor to make sense of the surrounding horror do so at women's...

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Haggai and Malachi

Stacy Davis, Barbara E. Reid, Carol J. Dempsey, OP

Reading Haggai and Malachi in conversation with feminist theory, rhetorical criticism, and masculinity studies reveals two communities in different degrees of crisis.

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Micah

Julia M. O'Brien, Barbara E. Reid, Carol J. Dempsey, OP

This volume brings gender studies to bear on Micah's powerful rhetoric, interpreting the book within its ancient and modern contexts. Julia M. O'Brien traces resonances of Micah's language within the Persian Period community in which the book was...

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John 1-10, 44

Mary L Coloe, Barbara E Reid, Mary Ann Beavis

2022 Catholic Media Association honorable mention in scripture: academic studiesTeaching and researching the Gospel of John for thirty years has led author Mary L. Coloe to an awareness of the importance of the wisdom...

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Mark

Warren Carter, Barbara E. Reid, Sarah Tanzer

This reading of Mark's Gospel engages this ancient text from the perspective of contemporary feminist concerns to expose and resist all forms of domination that prevent the full flourishing of all humans and all creation.

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Luke 1–9

Barbara E. Reid, Shelly Matthews, Barbara E. Reid

Because there are more women in the Gospel of Luke than in any other gospel, feminists have given it much attention. In this commentary, Shelly Matthews and Barbara Reid show that feminist analysis demands much more than counting the number of...

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Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah

Wilda C. M. Gafney, Barbara E. Reid, Carol J. Dempsey, OP

From the Wisdom Commentary series .This volume offers a womanist and feminist analysis of the books of Nahum, Habakkuk, and Zephaniah, attending to translation and textual issues, use of power and agency, and constructions of gender and its...

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Luke 10-24

Barbara E. Reid, Shelly Matthews, Barbara E. Reid

Because there are more women in the Gospel of Luke than in any other gospel, feminists have given it much attention. In this commentary, Shelly Matthews and Barbara Reid show that feminist analysis demands much more than counting the number of...

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Zechariah

Leslie J. Hoppe, Lauress Wilkins Lawrence, Barbara E. Reid

The book of Zechariah is one of the more obscure books of the Bible. In this commentary on the life of the prophet Zechariah, Leslie J. Hoppe, OFM, explores the Bible through a feminist lens to help contemporary readers appreciate the work of the...

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Ephesians

Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza, Barbara E. Reid, Linda M. Maloney

Ephesians is a “mystery” text that seeks to make known the multifarious Wisdom of God.

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John 11-21

Mary L. Coloe, Barbara E. Reid, Mary Ann Beavis

Teaching and researching the Gospel of John for thirty years has led author Mary L. Coloe to an awareness of the importance of the wisdom literature to make sense of Johannine theology, language, and symbolism: in the prologue, with Nicodemus, in...

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Acts of the Apostles

Linda M. Maloney, Ivoni Richter Reimer, Willie James Jennings

2023 Catholic Media Association Third Place Award, Scripture – Academic Studies The Acts of the Apostles, the earliest work of its kind to have survived from Christian antiquity, is not “history” in the modern sense, nor is...

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2 Corinthians

Antoinette Clark Wire, Barbara E. Reid, Mary Ann Beavis

2020 Catholic Press Association honorable mention award for gender issues, inclusion in the churchWhen 2 Corinthians is read as a whole in the early manuscripts, we hear a distraught and defensive Paul, struggling to...

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Philippians, Colossians, Philemon

Elsa Tamez, Cynthia Briggs Kittredge, Claire Miller Colombo

Philippians lends itself to a political-ideological reading. To take into account that the document is a writing from prison, and to read it from a political-religious and feminist perspective using new language, helps to re-create the letter as...

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Romans

Christian A. Eberhart, Mary Ann Beavis, Barbara E. Reid

Can a feminist interpretation of Romans discover anything new? In this volume, Christian Eberhart pays special attention to the fact that Paul entrusted Phoebe, a gentile woman, with the task of delivering the letter to Rome. There, she would have...

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1-2 Thessalonians

Florence Morgan Gillman, Mary Ann Beavis, HyeRan Kim-Cragg

When Paul wrote First Thessalonians shortly after the recipients had accepted the Gospel, many significant issues had already arisen among them. Of great concern was the social complexity, and even persecution, they encountered because they had...

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Revelation

Lynn R. Huber, Gail R. O'Day, Barbara E. Reid

While feminist interpretations of the Book of Revelation often focus on the book’s use of feminine archetypes—mother, bride, and prostitute, this commentary explores how gender, sexuality, and other feminist concerns permeate the book in its...

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1–2 Peter and Jude

Pheme Perkins, Patricia McDonald, Eloise Rosenblatt

2023 Catholic Media Association Second Place Award, Scripture – Academic Studies Reading 1 Peter through the lens of feminist and diaspora studies keeps front and center the bodily, psychological, and social suffering...

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1-2 Timothy, Titus

Annette Bourland Huizenga, Barbara E. Reid, Sarah Tanzer

The author of 1 Timothy, 2 Timothy, and Titus argues in favor of a "traditional" Greco-Roman gender ideology: that because men and women are biologically different, they ought to behave differently in the family and society. His gender-specific...

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Hebrews

Mary Ann Beavis, HyeRan Kim-Cragg, Barbara E. Reid

Hebrews seems like unpromising material for feminist interpretation, although it is the only New Testament writing for which female authorship has been seriously posited. Mary Ann Beavis and HyeRan Kim-Cragg highlight the similarities between...

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