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19th-century painting of Jezebel by John Liston Byam Shaw

Mar 3 Blog

Scandalous Women in the Bible

Mary Magdalene, Jezebel, Rahab, Lilith. Today, each are popularly considered scandalous women in the Bible. Are these so-condemned salacious women misrepresented?

Nov 21 Blog

Deconstructing Delilah

By: Lila Wolk

Feminist biblical scholars have spent years reframing the women of the Bible through new lenses. As the field of biblical studies expands, so do the […]

Sep 18 Blog

How Bad Was Jezebel?

By: Janet Howe Gaines

For more than two thousand years, Jezebel has been saddled with a reputation as the bad girl of the Bible, the wickedest of women. But just how depraved was she?

Oct 17 Blog

Four Female Viewpoints on Eve

By: Jennifer Drummond

A single bite of fruit forever heaved the entirety of a fallen and sinful creation onto the shoulders of Eve; through the lens of millennia […]

May 8 Blog

Jacob in the Bible

By: Megan Sauter

Who did Jacob wrestle with in the Bible? Phyllis Trible connects this episode to her own struggle with feminism and the Bible in her Biblical Views column “Wrestling with Faith.”

Feb 13 Blog

Biblical Archaeology Books on the Go

By: Biblical Archaeology Society Staff

The Bible in the News, Aspects of Monotheism, The Rise of Ancient Israel, Feminist Approaches to the Bible and The Search for Jesus are now available as digital publications for your eReader

Jul 7 Blog

Jane Schaberg (1938–2012)

By: Biblical Archaeology Society Staff

Jane Schaberg, professor emeritus of religious studies and women's studies at the University of Detroit Mercy (UDM), died on April 17 after a decades-long battle with breast cancer. She was 74.

Sep 7 Blog

Tikva Frymer-Kensky (1943–2006)

By: Jeffrey H. Tigay

Tikva Frymer-Kensky, professor of Hebrew Bible and the History of Judaism at the Divinity School of the University of Chicago, died August 31 after a long battle with cancer. Frymer-Kensky received her M.A. and Ph.D. from Yale University, and specialized in Assyriology, Sumerology and women and religion. Her most recent book, Reading the Women of the Bible received a Koret Jewish Book Award in 2002 and a National Jewish Book Award in 2003. The Chicago Jewish News voted her one of the Jewish Chicagoans of the Year in 2005. She was also honored by the Jewish Publication Series in 2006 by being the first women to be included in their Scholar of Distinction series.

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