BOOKS

Women in scripture : a dictionary of named and unnamed women in the Hebrew Bible, is a resource that houses every one of the women listed on our website. If you would like to learn more about any one of these women, visit this link.

Feminist/Womanist Biblical Interpretation

• Engaging the Bible in a Gendered World edited by Linda Day and Carolyn Pressler (2006)

• Feminist Interpretation of the Bible edited by Letty M. Russel (1985)

• The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and Gender Studies edited by Julia M. O'Brien (2014)

• Feminist Interpretation: The Bible in Women's Perspective by Luise Schottroff, Silvia Schroer, and Marie-Theres Wacker (1998)

• Great Women of the Bible in Art and Literature by Dorothee Solle (2006)

• If God Still Breathes, Why Can't I?: Black Lives Matter and Biblical Authority Audible Audiobook by Angela N. Parker (2021)

• I Found God in Me: A Womanist Biblical Hermeneutics Reader edited by Mitzi J. Smith (2015)

• Liberating Tradition: Women’s Identity and Vocation in Christian Perspective by Kristina LaCelle-Peterson (2008)

• Postcolonial Feminist Interpretation of the Bible by Musa W. Dube (2000)

• Reading the Bible from the Margins by Miguel A. de la Torre (2002)

• Reconceiving Infertility: Biblical Perspectives on Procreation and Childlessness by Joel Baden and Candida Moss (2015)

• Rediscovering Scripture's Vision for Women: Fresh Perspectives on Disputed Texts by Lucy Peppiatt (2019)

• Taking Up the Cross: New Testament Interpretation Through Latina and Feminist Eyes by Barbara E. Reid (2007)

• Texts of Terror: Literary-Feminist Readings of Biblical Narratives (Overtures to Biblical Theology) by Phyllis Trible (1984)

• Transgressors: Toward a Feminist Biblical Theology edited by Claudia Janssen, Ute Ochtendung, Beate Wehn, Luise Schottroff (2002)

• When Momma Speaks: The Bible and Motherhood from a Womanist Perspective by Stephanie Buckhanon Crowder (2016)

• Womanist Interpretations of the Bible: Expanding the Discourse edited by Gay L. Byron and Vanessa Lovelace (2016)

• Jesus and Beyond: Beyond Feminism by Niamh M. Middleton (2022)

Biblical Women

• The Bible and Women: An Encyclopedia of Exegesis and Cultural History series

• Bible Women: All Their Words and Why They Matter by Lindsay Hardin Freeman (2014)

• Consider the Women: A Provocative Guide to Three Matriarchs of the Bible by Debbie Blue (2019)

• Fierce: Women of the Bible and Their Stories of Violence, Mercy, Bravery, Wisdom, Sex, and Salvation by Alice Connor (2017)

• The Israelite Woman: Social Role and Literary Type in Biblical Narrative by Athalya Brenner-Idan (1985)

• Just a Sister Away: Understanding the Timeless Connection Between Women of Today and Women in the Bible by Renita J. Weems (1988)

• ​​Leave Her Alone by Megan McKenna (2000)

• The Liberating Word: A Guide to Nonsexist Interpretation of the Bible edited by Letty M. Russell (1977)

• Not Counting Women and Children: Neglected Stories from the Bible by Megan McKenna (1994)

• Reframing Her: Biblical Women in Postcolonial Focus by Judith E. McKinlay (2004)

• Sarah Laughed: Modern Lessons From the Wisdom & Stories of Biblical Women by Vanessa L. Ochs (2005)

• Tell Her Story: How Women Led, Taught, and Ministered in the Early Church by Nijay K. Gupta (2023)

• Vindicating the Vixens: Revisiting Sexualized, Vilified, and Marginalized Women of the Bible by Sandra Glahn (2018)

• Women in the Bible: Interpretation: Resources for the Use of Scripture in the Church by Jaime Clark-Soles (2020)

• Women in Scripture:  A Dictionary of Named and Unnamed Women in the Hebrew Bible, the Apocryphal/Deuterocanonical Books, and the New Testament edited by Carol Meyers, Toni Craven, and Ross Shepard Kraemer (2001)

• Women of the Bible by Morin Bishop (2020)

• Women of the Bible Tell Their Stories: For Personal Reading and Dramatic Presentation by Mary E. Jensen (1978)

• The Women's Lectionary: Preaching the Women of the Bible Throughout the Year by Ashley M. Wilcox (2021)

Old Testament/Hebrew Bible

• Are We Amused? Humour About Women in the Biblical World by Athalya Brenner-Idan (2004)

• Biblical Women Unbound: Counter Tales by Norma Rosen (1996)

• Countertraditions in the Bible: A Feminist Approach by Ilana Pardes (1992)

• Daughters of Miriam: Women Prophets in Ancient Israel by Wilda C. Gafney (2008)

• Defiant: What the Women of Exodus Teach Us About Freedom by Kelley Nikondeha (2020)

• Feminist Interpretation of the Hebrew Bible in Retrospect edited by Susanne Scholz (2013)

• Fragmented Women: Feminist (Sub)versions of Biblical Narratives by J. Cheryl Exum (1993)

• Gender and Law in the Hebrew Bible and the Ancient Near East edited by Victor Matthews, Bernard M. Levinson, and Tikva Frymer-Kensky (1998)

• God of Violence Yesterday, God of Love Today? by Helen Paynter (2019)

• Helpmates, Harlots, and Heroes: Women's Stories in the Hebrew Bible by Alice Ogden Bells (1994)

• I Am: Biblical Women Tell Their Own Stories by Athalya Brenner (2005)

• Introducing the Women's Hebrew Bible: Feminism, Gender Justice, and the Study of the Old Testament by Susanne Scholz (2017)

• Meet Me at the Well: The Girls and Women of the Bible by Jane Yolen and Barbara Diamond Goldin (2018)

• Mourner, Mother, Midwife: Reimagining God’s Delivering Presence in the Old Testament by L. Juliana M. Claassens (2012)

• The Oxford Handbook of Feminist Approaches to the Hebrew Bible edited by Susanne Scholz (2020)

• Postcolonialism and the Hebrew Bible: The Next Step edited by Roland Boer (2013)

• Reading the Women of the Bible by Tikva Frymer-Kensky (2002)

• Stories of Biblical Mothers: Maternal Power in the Hebrew Bible by Leila Leah Bronner (2004)

• Whispering the Word: Hearing Women’s Stories in the Old Testament by Jacqueline E. Lapsley (2005)

• Womanist Midrash: A Reintroduction To The Women Of The Torah And The Throne by Wilda C. Gafney (2017)

• Woman’s Body and the Social Body in Hosea 1-2 by Alice A. Keefe (2002)

• Women in the Biblical World: A Study Guide by Mayer L. Gruber (1995)

• Women in the Hebrew Bible: A Reader by Alice Bach (1999)

• Women in the Pentateuch: A Feminist and Source-Critical Analysis by Sarah Shectman (2009)

• Women in the Old Testament by Irene Nowell (1997)

• The Women of Genesis: From Sarah to Potiphar's Wife by Sharon Pace Jeansonne (1990)

• Women Who Wrestled with God: Biblical Stories of Israel's Beginnings byIrmtraud Fischer (2005)

• Writing the Wrongs: Women of the Old Testament among Biblical Commentators from Philo through the Reformation by John L. Thompson (2001)

New Testament

• Discovering Biblical Equality by Ronald W. Pierce and Rebecca Merrill Groothuis (2005)

• Engaging the Word: The New Testament and the Christian Believer by Jaime Clark-Soles (2010)

• In Quest of the Jewish Mary: The Mother of Jesus in History, Theology, and Spirituality by Mary Christine Athans (2013)

• Minoritized Women Reading Race and Ethnicity: Intersectional Approaches to Constructed Identity and Early Christian Texts edited by Mitzi J. Smith and Jin Young Choi (2020)

• Seeing for Ourselves: Biblical Women Who Met Jesus by Katerina Katsarka Whitley (2001) 

• What Jesus Learned from Women by James McGrath (2021)

• A Woman Reads the Gospel of Luke by Loretta C. Dornisch (2002)

• Women and Jesus in Mark: A Japanese Feminist Perspective by Hisako Kinukawa (2003)

• Women in the New Testament by Mary Ann Getty-Sullivan (2001)

• Women in the New Testament World by Susan E. Hylen (2018)

History of Women in Christianity

• Christian Women in the Patristic World: Their Influence, Authority, and Legacy in the Second through Fifth Centuries by Lynn H. Cohick and Amy Brown Hughes (2017) 

• In Memory of Her: Feminist Theological Reconstruction of Christian Origins by Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza (1994)

• A New Gospel for Women: Katharine Bushnell and the Challenge of Christian Feminism by Kristin Kobes Du Mez (2015)

• The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth by Beth Allison Barr (2021)

• Redeemed Bodies: Women Martyrs in Early Christianity by Gail P.C. Street (2009)

• Women in the Early Church by Elizabeth A. Clark (1983)

• Women in the World of the Earliest Christians: Illuminating Ancient Ways of Life by Lynn Cohick (2009)

• Women of Bible Lands: A Pilgrimage to Compassion and Wisdom by Martha Ann Kirk (2004)

• Women Officeholders in Early Christianity: Epigraphical and Literary Studies by Ute E. Eisen (2000)

Feminist/Womanist Theology

• Abuelita Faith: What Women on the Margins Teach Us about Wisdom, Persistence, and Strength by Kat Armas (2021)

• Created in God's Image by Michelle A. Gonzalez (2007)  

• Democratizing Biblical Studies: Toward an Emancipatory Educational Space by Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza (2009)

• Enfleshing Freedom: Body, Race, and Being (Intersections in African American Theology) by M. Shawn Copeland (2009)   

• Feminist Theology: A Reader edited by Ann Loades (1990)

• Feminist Theology from the Third World: A Reader edited by Ursula King (2015)

• Hope Abundant: Third World and Indigenous Women's Theology edited by Kwok Pui-lan (1995)

• Icons of Christ: A Biblical and Systematic Theology for Women’s Ordination by William G. Witt

• Introducing Asian Feminist Theology by Kwok Pui-lan (2000)

• On Earth As In Heaven: A Liberation Theology of Sharing by Dorothee Soelle (1993)

• Our Cry for Life: Feminist Theology from Latin America by María Pilar Aquino (2002)

• Parable of the Brown Girl: The Sacred Lives of Girls of Color by Khristi Lauren Adams (2020)

• Postcolonial Imagination & Feminist Theology by Kwok Pui-lan (2005)

• A Reader in Latina Feminist Theology: Religion and Justice edited by María Pilar Aquino, Daisy L. Machado, and Jeanette Rodriguez (2002)

• Sexism and God-Talk: Toward a Feminist Theology by Rosemary R. Ruether (1993)

• Sex, Race, and God: Christian Feminism in Black and White by Susan Thistlethwaite (1989)

• She Who Is: The Mystery of God in Feminist Theological Discourse by Elizabeth A. Johnson (2017)

• Sisters in the Wilderness: The Challenge of Womanist God-Talk by Delores S. Williams (1993)

• The Strength of Her Witness: Jesus Christ in the Global Voices of Women by Elizabeth A. Johnson (2016)

• Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom by bell hooks (1994)

• Weaving the Visions: New Patterns in Feminist Spirituality edited by Judith Plaskow and Carol P. Christ (1989)

• WomanPrayer WomanSong: Resources for Ritual by Miriam Therese Winter (1993)

• Women and the Authority of Scripture: A Narrative Approach by Sarah Heaner Lancaster (2002)

• Women, Wisdom, and Witness: Engaging contexts in Conversation edited by Rosemary P. Carbine and Kathleen J. Dolphin (2012)