Women in the Hebrew Bible
Course Dates:
Course Dates: January 10, 17, 24, 31, February 7, 14 (6 sessions)
Course Time: Mondays, 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM ET
Course Description:
This course is a very scaled down version of my semester long course taught at Episcopal Divinity School on Women and the Hebrew Bible. Since we are a wide and varied audience, we will first talk about the different ways of reading the bible and reflect on how we individually read it. We will then situate women in their historical and geographical settings, getting a sense of the laws they labored under. We will then tackle some key female characters in different sections of the biblical texts. Students should have a copy of the bible on hand during sessions. They should be a translation from the original ancient languages.
For more information, please email our Coordinator of Courses in the Community Damellys Sacriste at candlerfoundry@emory.edu.
Suggested Readings:
Gale A. Yee, ed., The Hebrew Bible: Feminist and Intersectional Perspectives (Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 2018).
Carol A. Newsom, Sharon H. Ringe, and Jacqueline E. Lapsley, eds., Women’s Bible Commentary, 3rd ed., twentieth anniversary ed (Louisville, Ky: Westminster John Knox Press, 2012)
Pitts Theology Library Digital Resource Access
All registered participants in the Courses in the Community program have access to select Pitts Theology Library resources. These resources can be used to research topics, authors, or areas of interest from class discussions. Please click on the link below be taken to the library access portal. If you need any assistance, please contact Cristha Edwards, Coordinator of Digital Initiatives, at candlerfoundry@emory.edu.
Username: The email address that was used to register for this course.
Password: womeninthehb053122
The password listed is your expiration date for access to the online resources.
(Access for the portal will begin on January 10, 2022).
Meet the Instructor: Dr. Gale A. Yee
Nancy W. King, Professor of Biblical Studies
Dr. Gale A. Yee is an intersectional Hebrew Bible scholar. She has served as president of the Society of Biblical Literature in 2019 and as the Nancy W. King Professor of Biblical Studies and Episcopal Divinity School. She is author of a number of books including Poor Banished Children of Eve: Women as Evil in the Hebrew Bible and Toward an Asian-American Biblical Hermeneutic: An Intersectional Anthology.
If you have any questions about the course please feel free to reach out to Dr. Yee at gale.yee@gmail.com.
Session 1
Monday, January 10, 2022
Preparing for your First Day
Please click on the link below to download the reading for the first day of class.
Please view the course recording below from the first session.
Session 2
Monday, January 17, 2022
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Session 2 Recording:
Session 3
Monday, January 24, 2022
Please review the following readings to prepare for your next session.
Phyllis Trible, “Eve and Adam: Genesis 2-3 Reread,” Andover Newton Quarterly 13, no. 4 (January 3, 1973): 251–58.
Janell Johnson, “Negotiating Masculinities Dinah’s Story: Honor and Outrage in Genesis 34,” Review & Expositor 115, no. 4 (2018): 529–41.
Eve Rebecca Parker, “The Virgin and the Whore - An Interreligious Challenge for Our Times: Exploring the Politics of Religious Belonging with Tamar,” The Ecumenical Review 71, no. 5 (December 2019): 693–705, https://doi.org/10.1111/erev.12473.
Session 3 Recording:
Session 4
Monday, January 31, 2022
Please review the following readings to prepare for your next session.
Gale A. Yee, “‘By the Hand of a Woman’: The Biblical Metaphor of the Woman Warrior,” Semeia 61 (1993): 99–132.
Monica. I. Rey, “Reexamination of the Foreign Female Captive: Deuteronomy 21:10–14 as a Case of Genocidal Rape,” Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion 32, no. 1 (2016): 37–53.
Brad Embry, “Narrative Loss, the (Important) Role of Women, and Community in Judges 19,” in Joshua and Judges, ed. Athalya Brenner-Idan and Gale A. Yee, Texts@Contexts (Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 2013), 257–73.
Session 4 Recording:
Session 5
Monday, February 7, 2022
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Session 6
Monday, February 14, 2022
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Additional Resources
In this section, Dr. Yee has prepared a list of additional resources on this topic.