On this page you will find general resources in biblical studies, feminist studies, and feminist biblical studies; you will also find tools to help you complete your assignments for this class.
BIBLICAL STUDIES RESOURCES
On-line Bibles
Revised Standard Version (search or browse)
King James Version (search or browse)
Bible Gateway (look up passages or words in dozens of languages and version)
Hebrew Bible (in Hebrew; Explorer users will have to download bitmap)
Greek Old Testament (Septugaint) (browse by chapter or verse)
Greek New Testament (browse by chapter, verse; move cursor over words to see definitions)
The Brick Testament ("The world's largest, most comprehensive illustrated Bible"--in LEGOs)
General Bible Resources (online)
On-line Texts Related to Biblical Study (University of Pennsylvania)
Biblical Studies section of the Virtual Religion Index (Rutgers University)
Virtual World Project (Creighton University; 3-D tours of ancient sites, very cool)
Biblical Archaeology Society (some on-line versions of current articles from Biblical Archaeology Review, Bible Review, and Archaeology Odyssey)
Biblical Resources Search v 2.0 (University of Birmingham)
Bible Odyssey (Literary and historical guides sponsored by the Society of Biblical Literature)
Hebrew Bible Resources (online)
Hebrew Scriptures section of the Virtual Religion Index (Rutgers University)
Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls
Old Testament Pseudepigrapha (Wesley Center)
New Testament Resources (online)
Christian Scriptures section of the Virtual Religion Index (Rutgers University)
New Testament Gateway (Duke University)
From Jesus to Christ: The First Christians (PBS)
FEMINIST STUDIES RESOURCES
Voice of the Shuttle: Gender & Sexuality Studies
Gender & Women's Studies Databases at the Claremont
Libraries
Feminism & Women's Studies (eServer)
Intercolleciate Feminist Center for Teaching, Research, and Engagement at the Claremont Colleges
Scripps College Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department
Basic reference works in feminist theory (from Professor Joe Parker's website)
Encyclopedia of Feminist Theories (available as an e-book through Claremont Libraries)
FEMINIST BIBLICAL STUDIES RESOURCES
"And Adam Knew Eve": A Dictionary of Sex in the Bible
Feminism and Religion (bibliography)
Bibliography of women and religion
Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion (back issues available through JSTOR, linked below)
RESEARCH TOOLS
Claremont Libraries Databases:
Gender and Women's Studies Databases
Religion Databases, especially: ATLA database (Religious Studies serials)
General databases of use:
JSTOR (archives of journal articles in many disciplines)
Lexis-Nexis (archives of newspapers, magazines, and legal materials)
Academic Search Premier (more scholarly articles and essays)
Web of Science (a citation index)
POSSIBILITIES FOR EXEGESIS or HISTORY OF INTERPRETATION or CREATIVE FINAL PROJECTS
Hebrew Bible/Old Testament
Adam & Eve
Sarah & Hagar
Sodom & Gomorrah (and Lot's Daughters)
Rebecca's Deception
Jacob's wives
Rape of Dinah
Joseph and Potiphar's Wife
Judah and Tamar
The midwives of the Hebrews (Exodus 1)
Miriam's rebellion
Rahab the harlot
Samson & Delilah
David & Bathsheba
David & Jonathan
Jezebel (Queen of Israel)
Ezekiel 16 (Israel as punished harlot)
Job's wife
Esther
Judith
Sophia/Wisdom and HB/OT Goddess Traditions
New Testament
Virgin Birth (Matthew and/or Luke)
Woman with Flow of Blood
Mary Magdalene
Mary & Martha
Veiling women prophets (1 Corinthians)
Paul's female coworkers (Romans 16)
Women in Revelation: Jezebel; Women Clothed in the Sun; Whore of Babylon
POSSIBILITIES FOR BOOK REVIEW FINAL PROJECTS
Katherine Clay Bassard, Transforming Scriptures: African American Women Writers and the Bible (University of Georgia, 2010)
Alice Ogden Bellis, Harlots, Helpmeets, and Heroes: Women's Stories in the Hebrew Bible (Westminster/John Knox, 2007)
Athalya Brenner, I am...: Biblical Women Tell Their Own Stories (Fortress, 2004)
Bernadette Brooten, Love Between Women: Early Christian Responses to Female Homoeroticism (Chicago, 1998)
Kate Cooper, Band of Angels: The Forgotten World of Early Christian Women (Atlantic Books, 2013)
Musa Dube, Postcolonial Feminist Interpretation of the Bible (Chalice, 2000)
Elizabeth Schussler Fiorenza, Jesus: Miriam's Child, Sophia's Prophet (Continuum, 1994)
Wilda Gafney, Daughters of Miriam: Women Prophets in Ancient Israel (Fortress, 2008)
Jennifer Wright Knust, Unprotected Texts: The Bible's Surprising Contradictions About Sex and Desire (HarperOne, 2011)
Stephen Moore, God's Beauty Parlor and Other Queer Spaces in and around the Bible (Stanford, 2002)
Sandra Polaski, A Feminist Introduction to Paul (Chalice, 2005)
Erin Runions, The Babylon Complex: Theopolitical Fantasies of War, Sex, and Sovereignty (Fordham, 2014)
Phyllis Trible, Texts of Terror: Literary Feminist Readings of Biblical Narratives (Fortress, 1984)
Caroline Vander Stichele and Todd Penner, Her Master's Tools? Feminist and Postcolonial Engagements of Historical-Critical Discourse (SBL, 2005)