PUBLICATIONS:

 

Monographs:

The Children of Israel : Reading the Bible for the Sake of Our Children. Abingdon, 2003.

Narrative in the Hebrew Bible . Co-authored with David Gunn. Oxford University Press, 1993.

Gender, Power, and Promise: The Subject of the Bible's First Story . Co-authored with David Gunn. Abingdon, 1993.

Compromising Redemption: Relating Characters in the Book of Ruth . Co-authored with David M. Gunn. Westminster/John Knox, 1990. (Nominated for the Jewish Book Award.)

Circle of Sovereignty: Plotting Politics in the Book of Daniel . Abingdon, 1991 (1st ed., Circle of Sovereignty: A Story of Stories in Daniel 1-6 Sheffield Academic Press, 1988).

 

Edited Volumes:

Representing the Irreparable : The Shoah, the Bible, and the Art of Samuel Bak . Co-edited with Gary A. Phillips and Yvonne Sherwood. Syracuse University Press, forthcoming.

Bible and Ethics of Reading , ( Semeia 77). Co-edited with Gary Phillips. Scholars Press, 1997.

Reading Between Texts: Intertextuality and the Hebrew Bible . Westminster/John Knox, 1992.

 

Articles/Book Chapters:

Genesis, Genocide, and the Art of Samuel Bak, (co-authored) in Representing the Irreparable : The Shoah, the Bible, and the Art of Samuel Bak . Danna Nolan Fewell, Gary A. Phillips, and Yvonne Sherwood, eds. Syracuse University Press, forthcoming.

Bak's Impossible Memorials: Giving Face to the Children, (co-authored) in in Representing the Irreparable : The Shoah, the Bible, and the Art of Samuel Bak . Danna Nolan Fewell, Gary A. Phillips, and Yvonne Sherwood, eds. Syracuse University Press, forthcoming.

Viol, lecture et representation en Genèse 34, in Guide des nouvelles lectures de laBible . Andre Lacoque, ed. Paris : Bayard Press, 2005.

The Genesis of Israelite Identity: A Narrative Speculation on Postexilic Interpretation, in Reading Communities Reading Scripture: Essays in Honor of Daniel Patte . Gary A Phillips and Nicole Wilkerson, eds. Trinity Press International, 2002.

Building Babel , in Postmodern Interpretations of the Bible?A Reader , A. K. M. Adam, ed. Chalice Press, 2001.

The Gift: World Alteration and Obligation in 2 Kings 4, in A Wise and Discerning Mind: Essays in Honor of Burke O. Long . Saul Olyan and Robert Culley, eds. Brown Judaic Studies, 2000.

Changing the Subject: Retelling the Story of Hagar the Egyptian, in Genesis: A Feminist Companion to the Bible (Series II). Athalya Brenner, ed. Sheffield Academic Press, 1998.

Drawn to Excess, or Reading Beyond Betrothal, (co-authored) in Bible and Ethics of Reading, ( Semeia 77). Scholars Press, 1997.

Ethics, Bible, Reading As If, (co-authored) in Bible and Ethics of Reading, ( Semeia 77). Scholars Press, 1997.

Imagination, Method, and Murder: Un/Framing the Face of Post-Exilic Israel , in Reading Bibles, Writing Bodies: God, Identity, and the Book . Timothy K. Beal and David M. Gunn, eds. London / New York : Routledge, 1996.

Shifting the Blame: God in the Garden, (co-authored), in Reading Bibles, Writing Bodies: God, Identity, and the Book . Timothy K. Beal and David M. Gunn, eds. London / New York : Routledge, 1996.

Deconstructive Criticism: Achsah and the (E)razed City of Writing , in Judges and Method . Gale A. Yee, ed. Minneapolis : Augsburg/Fortress, 1995.

Reading the Bible Ideologically: Feminist Criticism, in To Each Its Own Meaning: An Introduction to Biblical Criticisms and Their Application . Stephen Haynes and Steven McKenzie, eds. Louisville : Westminster/John Knox, 1993.

Joshua, in The Women's Bible Commentary , Carol Newsom and Sharon Ringe, eds. Louisville : Westminster/John Knox, 1992.

Judges, in The Women's Bible Commentary , Carol Newsom and Sharon Ringe, eds. Louisville : Westminster/John Knox, 1992.

Narrative, Hebrew, (co-authored) Anchor Bible Dictionary . Garden City: Doubleday, 1992.

Tipping the Balance: Sternberg's Reader and the Rape of Dinah, (co-authored) Journal of Biblical Literature 110 (1991) 193-211.

Controlling Perspectives: Women, Men, and the Authority of Violence in Judges 4 and 5, (co-authored) Journal of the American Academy of Religion 58 (1990) 101-123.

Feminist Hermeneutics, Mercer Dictionary of the Bible , Mercer University Press, 1990.

Inclusive God Language, Mercer Dictionary of the Bible , Mercer University Press, 1990.

Is Coxon a Scold? On Responding to the Book of Ruth, (co-authored) Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 45 (1989) 39-43.

Boaz, Pillar of Society: Measures of Worth in the Book of Ruth, (co-authored) JSOT 45 (1989) 45-59.

Divine Calls, Human Responses: Another Look at Abraham and Sarah, Perkins Journal (1988) 13-16. Reprinted in The Navy Chaplain .

‘A Son is Born to Naomi!' Literary Allusion and Interpretation in the Book of Ruth, (co-authored), JSOT 40 (1988) 99-108. Reprinted in Women in the Hebrew Bible: A Reader , Alice Bach, ed. Routledge, 1999.

Feminist Reading of the Hebrew Bible: Affirmation, Resistance and Transformation, JSOT 39 (1987) 77-87.

Sennacherib's Defeat: Words at War in II Kings 18:13 -19:37 , JSOT 34 (1986) 79-90.

 

Sermons:

Divine Calls, Human Responses: Another Look at Abraham and Sarah, The Navy Chaplain , Fall, 1989.

Dear Orpah, A Sermon from the Chapel, The Perkins Perspective , Winter, 1991.

Hannah's Song, A Sermon from the Chapel, The Perkins Perspective , Fall, 1995.

Sacred Spaces, Sacred Traces on the Journey from Here to There, The Theo Spirit , Drew University , 2002.