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Leviticus
Av S. Tamar Kamionkowski, Barbara E. Reid OP
Inbunden, 2018
646 kr
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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. While the Priestly work has hardly inspired lay …
Deuteronomy
Av Johanna W. H. van Wijk-Bos, Barbara E. Reid OP
Inbunden, 2025
716 kr
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2026 Catholic Media Association Third Place Award, Scripture – SeriesDeuteronomy, the final book of the Torah, is ostensibly addressed to males but it does not mean it lacks a concern for women. In this commentary on Deuteronomy, Johanna W. H. van Wijk-Bos provides serious feminist engagement with …
Judges
Av Mercedes L. García Bachmann, Barbara E. Reid OP
Inbunden, 2018
652 kr
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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 counseling; a single woman, Delilah, who seduces …
Ruth
Av Alice L. Laffey, Mahri Leonard-Fleckman m. fl.
Inbunden, 2017
667 kr
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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 commentary, it is particularly sensitive to issues of …
2 Kings
Av Song-Mi Suzie Park, Barbara E. Reid OP
Inbunden, 2019
667 kr
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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 interrogation of the masculinity of YHWH, Israel’s deity, …
Ezra-Nehemiah
Av Deborah A. Appler, Terry Ann Smith m. fl.
Inbunden, 2025
545 kr
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In this volume, Deborah Appler and Terry Ann Smith offer a sustained investigation and feminist critique that moves beyond traditional historical and theological interpretations of Ezra-Nehemiah. Their intersectional analysis engages themes of gender, power, economics, and social justice. Tensions …
Tobit
Av Michele Murray, Barbara E. Reid OP
Inbunden, 2023
652 kr
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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 fiction in a long Jewish tradition of storytelling. But it …
Judith
Av Jennifer L. Koosed, Robert Paul Seesengood m. fl.
Inbunden, 2022
667 kr
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2023 Catholic Media Association First Place Award, Scripture – Academic StudiesThe striking scene of Judith cutting off Holofernes’s head with his own sword in his own bed has inspired the imaginations of readers for millennia. But there is more to her story than just this climactic act and more to …
Psalms, Books 2–3
Av Denise Dombkowski Hopkins, Barbara E. Reid OP
Inbunden, 2016
652 kr
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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 Hebrew Bible alongside Psalms 42–89 as “intertexts” …
Psalms, Books 4–5
Av Nancy L. deClaissé-Walford, Barbara E. Reid OP
Inbunden, 2020
667 kr
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2021 Catholic Media Association Award second place award in academic studiesIn this close reading of Psalms 90–150, Nancy L. deClaissé-Walford discovers meanings in the Psalms that were “there all along” but hidden beneath layers of interpretation built up over the centuries. Approaching the …
Proverbs
Av Alice Ogden Bellis, Barbara E. Reid OP
Inbunden, 2018
652 kr
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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 women and to undercut the negative ones. By grouping Proverbs together …
Qoheleth (Ecclesiastes)
Av Lisa M. Wolfe, Barbara E. Reid OP
Inbunden, 2020
667 kr
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2021 Catholic Media Association Award third place award in academic studiesQoheleth, also called Ecclesiastes, has been bad news for women throughout history. In this commentary Lisa Wolfe offers intriguing new possibilities for feminist interpretation of the book's parts, including Qoheleth's most …
Song of Songs
Av F. Scott Spencer, Barbara E. Reid OP
Inbunden, 2017
629 kr
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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 to interpret this vibrant Song in a contemporary …
Lamentations
Av Gina Hens-Piazza, Barbara E. Reid OP
Inbunden, 2017
536 kr
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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 expense.In the opening chapters, a prevailing metaphor …
Baruch and the Letter of Jeremiah
Av Marie-Theres Wacker, Barbara E. Reid OP
Inbunden, 2016
536 kr
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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 on these books is available so far. Marie-Theres …
Micah
Av Julia M. O'Brien, Barbara E. Reid OP
Inbunden, 2015
536 kr
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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 composed, evaluating recent study of the period and …
Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah
Av Wilda C. M. Gafney, Barbara E. Reid OP
Inbunden, 2017
667 kr
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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 significance for the real and metaphorical women in the …
Haggai and Malachi
Av Stacy Davis, Barbara E. Reid OP
Inbunden, 2015
536 kr
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Reading Haggai and Malachi in conversation with feminist theory, rhetorical criticism, and masculinity studies reveals two communities in different degrees of crisis. The prophet Haggai successfully persuades a financially strapped people to rebuild the temple, but the speaker in Malachi faces …
Zechariah
Av Leslie J. Hoppe OFM, Barbara E. Reid OP
Inbunden, 2024
667 kr
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2025 Catholic Media Association Honorable Mention, Scripture — Academic StudiesThe 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 …
Mark
Av Warren Carter, Barbara E. Reid OP
Inbunden, 2019
667 kr
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The Academy of Parish Clergy 2020 Reference Book of the Year2020 Association of Catholic Publishers first place award in Scripture2020 Catholic Press Association third place award for best new religious book seriesThis reading of Mark's Gospel engages this ancient text from the perspective of …
Luke 1–9
Av Barbara E. Reid OP, Shelly Matthews m. fl.
Inbunden, 2021
667 kr
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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 female characters. Feminist biblical interpretation …
John 1–10
Av Mary L. Coloe PBVM, Barbara E. Reid OP
Inbunden, 2021
667 kr
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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 literature to make sense of Johannine theology, language, and symbolism: in the …
Acts of the Apostles
Av Linda M. Maloney, Ivoni Richter Reimer m. fl.
Inbunden, 2022
667 kr
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2023 Catholic Media Association Third Place Award, Scripture – Academic StudiesThe 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 it about what we call “the church.” Written at least half a century after …
Romans
Av Christian A. Eberhart, Barbara E. Reid OP
Inbunden, 2025
702 kr
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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 been the person who recited it aloud and by heart …
2 Corinthians
Av Antoinette Clark Wire, Barbara E. Reid OP
Inbunden, 2019
667 kr
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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 recover the respect of the Corinthians that he assumed in 1 Corinthians. Scholars …
Ephesians
Av Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza, Barbara E. Reid OP
Inbunden, 2017
667 kr
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Ephesians is a “mystery” text that seeks to make known the multifarious Wisdom of G*d. At its heart is the question of power. In this commentary, Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza examines the political understandings of ekklesia and household in Ephesians as well as the roles that such understandings …
Philippians, Colossians, Philemon
Av Elsa Tamez, Cynthia Briggs Kittredge m. fl.
Inbunden, 2017
652 kr
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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 if it were a new document. In this analysis Elsa …
1–2 Thessalonians
Av Florence Morgan Gillman, Mary Ann Beavis m. fl.
Inbunden, 2016
667 kr
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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 “turned to God from idols” (1:9). The countercultural …
1–2 Timothy, Titus
Av Annette Bourland Huizenga, Barbara E. Reid OP
Inbunden, 2016
652 kr
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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 beliefs carry over into his teachings for the house …
Hebrews
Av Mary Ann Beavis, HyeRan Kim-Cragg m. fl.
Inbunden, 2015
667 kr
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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 Hebrews and the book of Wisdom/Sophia, which share …
