A note on the text

Books that influenced Sarai in Christian Feminism:

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady (ed.). The Woman’s Bible (1895)

Swidler, Leonard. Biblical Affirmations of Women (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1979)

Schussler Fiorenza, Elizabeth. In Memory of Her (New York: Crossroad, 1983)

Trible, Phyllis. Texts of Terror (Fortress Press, 1984)

Russell, Letty M (ed.). Feminist Interpretation of the Bible (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1985)

Bal, Mieke. Lethal Love (Bloomington: Indian University Press, 1987)

Spong, John Shelby. Born of a Woman: a Bishop Rethinks the Birth of Jesus (New York: Harper Collins, 1992)

Newsome, Carol A. & Ringe, Sharon H (eds). The Women’s Bible Commentary (SPCK Westminster/John Knox, 1992)

Schussler Fiorenza, Elizabeth. But She Said: Feminist Practices of Biblical Interpretation (Beacon Press, 1992)

Fewell, Danna Nolan & Gunn, David. Gender, Power & Promise: The Subject of the Bible’s First Story (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1993)

General

Ringe, Sharon H. ‘The word of God may be Hazardous to Your Health’, Theology Today (49/3 1992)

Brenner, Athalya. The Feminist Companion to the Bible Series (Sheffield Academic Press, 10 volumes 1993–1997)

Isherwood, Lisa & McEwan, Dorothea (ed). An A to Z of Feminist Theology (Sheffield Academic Press, 1996)

Eve

Trible, Phyllis. ‘Genesis 2–3 Revisited’, God of Rhetoric and Sexuality (Philadelphia; Fortress Press, 1978)

Fewell, Danna Nolan ‘Reading the Bible Ideologically: Feminist Criticism’, To Each its Own Meaning (Westminster, John Knox Press, 1993)

Other Genesis women

Bird, Phyllis A. ‘Images of Women in the Old Testament’, Religion and Sexism (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1974)

Rahab

McKinly, Judith. ‘Living Theology in Aotearoa: Rahab. A Hero/ine?’, Otago University Distance Learning Programme BIBX 216/316, 2000

Women of Judges

Yee, Gale A (ed). Judges & Method: New approaches in Biblical Studies (Augsburg Fortress, 1995)

Ruth

McKinly, Judith. ‘A son is Born to Naomi. A Harvest for Israel’, Otago University Distance Learning Programme BIBX 216/316, 2000

Van Wolde, Ellen. Ruth and Naomi (London: SCM Press, 1997)

Miriam

Trible, Phyllis. God of Rhetoric and Sexuality (Philadelphia; Fortress Press, 1978)

Burns, Rita. Has the Lord spoken only through Moses? (Scholar Press, 1987)

Asher

Murphy, Roland E. The Tree of Life (New York: Doubleday, 1990)

Wisdom

Camp, Claudia V. Wisdom and the Feminine in the Book of Proverbs (Sheffield Almond Press, 1985)

Schussler Fiorenza, Elizabeth (ed). Searching the Scriptures, Vol 1: A Feminist Introduction (London: SCM Press 1993)

Gomer

Setel, T. Drorah. ‘Prophets and Pornography: Female Sexual Imagery in Hosea’, Feminist Interpretation of the Bible (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1985)

Fontaine, Carole R. ‘A response to Hosea’, A Feminist Companion to the Latter Prophets (Sheffield Academic Press, 1995)

New Testament

Moltmann-Wendel, Elizabeth. The Women Around Jesus (New York: The Crossroads Publishing Company, 1990)

Pearson, Helen Bruch. Do What You Have the Power to Do: Studies of Six New Testament Women (Nashville: Upper Room Books, 1992)

Further recommended reading

Schussler Fiorenza, Elizabeth. Jesus. Miriam’s Child, Sophia’s Prophet (SCM Press 1995)

Exum, J. Cheryl. Plotted, Shot and Painted: Cultural Representations of Cultural Women (Sheffield Academic Press, 1996)

Binger, Tilde. Ashera: Goddess in Ugarit, Israel and the Old Testament (Sheffield Academic Press, 1997)

Priests for Equality. The Inclusive Bible: The First Egalitarian Translation (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2007)

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