Editorial board

Elżbieta Adamiak

Ulrike Bechmann

Christl M. Maier

Shelly Matthews

Moisés Mayordomo

Martti Nissinen

Ulrike Sals

Susanne Scholz

Angela Standhartinger

Hanna Stenström

Kristin De Troyer

Elżbieta Adamiak

Elżbieta Adamiak (*1964) study of theology in Lublin (Poland), Regensburg (Germany) and Nijmegen (the Netherlands). 1994 PhD on the subject of „Das Marienbild in der feministischen Theologie von Catharin Halkes“ at the Catholic University in Lublin, 2012 habilitation on the subject of „Communio Sanctorum. Grundriss einer ökumenisch orientierten dogmatischen Theologie der Gemeinschaft der Heiligen“ at the University of Poznań (Poland). Since 1998 she is research assistant at the department for dogmatic theology at the University of Poznań. She is a member of the European Society of Woman in Theological Research (ESWTR – board member: 1999-2003), the European Society for Catholic Theology, the Polish Society for Dogmatic Theology, and the Polish Society for Mariology. She is co-organizer of the Central and Eastern European ESWTR regional conference. In 2007-2009 she was part of a project of the European Commission: „Religions and Values in Central and Eastern Europe“.

Bibliography - extraits:

• Błogosławiona między niewiastami. Maryja w feministycznej teologii Cathariny Halkes, Lublin 1997. [Gesegnet unter den Frauen. Maria in der feministischen Theologie von Catharina Halkes]
• Milcząca obecność. O roli kobiety w Kościele, Warszawa 1999 (2. Aufl. 2005; auf Japanisch, übersetzt von Tamura Kazuko, Tokio 2008). [Schweigende Anwesenheit. Zur Rolle der Frauen in der Kirche]
• Kobiety w Biblii. Stary Testament, Kraków 2006. [Frauen in der Bibel. Altes Testament]
• Traktat o Maryi, in: Dogmatyka, Bd. 2, hrsg. von E. Adamiak, A. Czaja, J. Majewski, Warszawa 2006, S. 15-287. [Traktat über Maria]
• Kobiety w Biblii. Nowy Testament, Warszawa 2010. [Frauen in der Bibel. Neues Testament]
• Communio sanctorum. Zarys ekumenicznie zorientowanej dogmatycznej teologii świętych obcowania, Poznań 2011. [Communio Sanctorum. Grundriss einer ökumenisch orientierten dogmatischen Theologie der Gemeinschaft der Heiligen]
• Zusammen mit Rebeka J. Anić und Kornélia Buday (Hrsg.), Theologische Frauenforschung in Mittel-Ost-Europa. Jahrbuch der Europäischen Gesellschaft für theologische Forschung von Frauen 11(2003).
• Together with Małgorzata Chrząstowska, Charlotte Methuen, Sonia Sobkowiak, Gender and Religion in Central and Eastern Europe, Poznań 2009.

Ulrike Bechmann

Ulrike Bechmann (*1958) is Professor for Religious Studies at the Faculty of Catholic Theology at the University of Graz, Austria (since March 2007). After her studies in Catholic Theology at the University of Bamberg, Germany, she obtained her doctorate in Old Testament Studies in 1988 by means of a scholarship from the Cusanuswerk. Subsequently she took up her studies in Islamic and Arabic studies at the University of Bamberg (degree: 1996). From 1989 to 1999 she worked as a full-time chief executive and theological consultant of the German committee of the Women’s World Day of Prayer, the oldest international ecumenical women’s movement. From 1999 to 2007 she was research assistant at the chair of Catholic Theology at the Faculty of cultural studies, University of Bayreuth (Germany) where she habilitated in 1994. Among others she is a member of the European Society of Woman in Theological Research (ESWTR) and the Austrian Society for Religious Studies (ÖGRW). Her research focuses are feminist Bible reading, Ancient Near East, Near East, comparative religious studies, interfaith dialogue and ecumenism of women.

Bibliography - extraits:

• Das Deboralied zwischen Geschichte und Fiktion. Eine exegetische Untersuchung zu Richter 5, St. Ottilien 1989 (= Dissertation)
• Vom Dialog zur Solidarität. Das christlich-islamische Gespräch in Palästina. Mit einem Vorwort von Uwe Gräbe und einem Beitrag von Ottmar Fuchs, Berlin 2000 (Kleine Schriftenreihe des Kulturvereins AphorismA - Sonderheft 6) (Mag.Arb., gek.)
• With: Fuchs, Ottmar (Hg.), Von Nazareth nach Bethlehem. Hoffnung und Klage. Mit einem Forschungsbericht von Saleh Srouji (Tübinger Perspektiven zur Pastoraltheologie und Religionspädagogik 4), Münster 2002
• With: Demir, Sevda/Egler, Gisela, Frauenkulturen. Christliche und muslimische Frauen in Begegnung und Gespräch, Düsseldorf 2001
• Gestörte Grabesruhe. Idealität und Realität des interreligiösen Dialogs am Beispiel von Hebron / al-Khalil, (AphorismA - Reihe Kleine Texte 24), Berlin 2007
• With: Kügler, Joachim (Hg.), Biblische Religionskritik. Kritik in, an und mit biblischen Texten - Beiträge des IBS 2007 in Vierzehnheiligen (Reihe: bayreuther forum TRANSIT - Kulturwissenschaftliche Religionsstudien) Bd. 9, 2009
• Die Witwe von Sarepta. Gottes Botin für Elija, (Reihe: Kleinschriften, hrsg. v. Kath. Bibelwerk), Stuttgart 2010)
• „Ich erschaffe das Licht und mache das Dunkel“ (Jes 45,7). Zentrale Aspekte der Gottesbeziehung in der Bibel, in: Renz, Andreas/Gharaibeh, Mohammad/Middelbeck, Anja//Bülent, Ucar (Hg.), „Der stets größere Gott“. Gottesvorstellungen in Christentum und Islam, Regensburg 2012, 49-67
• Gottes dunkle Seiten. Gewalt in biblischen Texten, in: Renz, Andreas/Gharaibeh, Mohammad/Middelbeck, Anja/Bülent, Ucar (Hg.), „Der stets größere Gott“. Gottesvorstellungen in Christentum und Islam, Regensburg 2012, 187-198
• Old Testament Hermeneutical & Archaeological Shifts Vis-à-is Palestine in the 20th Century, in: Raheb, Mitri (Hg.), The Invention of History: A Century of Interplay between Theology and Politics in Palestine (Volume 1), Bethlehem 2011, 59-86
• Gottesurteil als Wette? Der Körper der Frau als Wetteinsatz am Beispiel von Num 5, in: Eberlein, Johann Konrad (Hg.), SpielKunstGlück. Die Wette als Leitlinie der Entscheidung. Beispiele aus Vergangenheit und Gegenwart in Kunst, Wissenschaft, Wirtschaft (grazer edition 7), Wien 2011, 5-46
• With: Raheb, Viola, Politische Frauenproteste für Frieden und Demokratie. Die Friedensnobelpreisträgerinnen 2011, in: Theologisch-Praktische Quartalschrift 160 (2012) 133-141.
• Interreligiöser Dialog und Religionswissenschaft, in: Stausberg, Michael (Hg,), Religionswissenschaft, Berlin Boston 2012, 449-462
• „Zutritt verboten …“ Zur Relevanz heiliger Räume für eine Hermeneutik der Anderen, in: Baumann, Gerlinde/Gillmayr-Bucher, Susanne/Häusl, Maria/Human, Dirk (Hg.), Zugänge zum Fremden. Methodisch-hermeneutische Perspektiven zu einem biblischen Thema (Linzer Philosophisch-Theologische Beiträge 25), Frankfurt a.M. u.a.2012, 211-227

Christl M. Maier

Christl M. Maier, (*1962) is Professor of Old Testament at Philipps-University of Marburg, Germany. After having studied protestant theology in Tübingen and Berlin she achieved her Doctor of Theology in 1994 and completed her habilitation in 2000 at the Humboldt-University Berlin. She has taught among others in Augsburg, Hamburg, Kassel as well as Pietermaritzburg (South Africa). 2003-2006 she taughht as Associate Professor of Old Testament at the Yale-University, Divinity School, in New Haven, USA. In 1991-2003 she was member of the Hedwig Jahnow Research Group, Marburg, that was working on feminist methodology and hermeneutics in the Hebrew Bible. She is member of the European Society of Women in Theological Research (ESWTR), the Society of Biblical Literature, the Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft für Theologie and of the Steering Commitee of the Deutscher Evangelischer Kirchentag. She is editor in chief of Vetus Testamentum Supplementum (Brill, Leiden) and member of the board of editors of the Journal of Biblical Literature (JBL) and the Journal for the Study of the Old Testament (JSOT). Her main areas of research are Wisdom literature, prophecy, and feminist hermeneutics. Currently she is working on a commentary on Jeremiah for the IEKAT-Series (Kohlhammer, Stuttgart), together with Carolyn J. Sharp, Yale Divinity School.

Publications include:

• Christl M. Maier / Carolyn J. Sharp (Hg.), Prophecy and Power: Jeremiah in Feminist and Post­colonial Perspective, LHBOTS 577, New York u.a. 2013.
• Christl M. Maier / Nuria Calduch-Benages (Hg.), Die Schriften und spätere Weisheits­bücher, Die Bibel und die Frauen 1.3; Stuttgart. 2013. Spanische Ausgabe 2013, Englische Ausgabe 2014, Italienische Ausgabe 2014.
• Daughter Zion, Mother Zion: Gender, Space, and the Sacred in Ancient Israel, Fortress Press, Minneapolis 2008.
• mit Mitgliedern des Hedwig-Jahnow-Forschungsprojekts (Hg.), Körperkonzepte im Ersten Testament. Aspekte einer Feministischen Anthro­pologie, Stuttgart u.a. 2003.
• Die “fremde Frau” in Proverbien 1-9. Eine exegetische und sozialgeschichtliche Studie, OBO 144, Freiburg (CH) /Göttingen 1995.
• Sacred Spaces in the Book of Hosea: The Intersection of Gender, Space, and the Sacred in Ancient Israel from a Feminist-Theological Perspective, in: Mark K. George /Daria Pezzoli-OIgiati (Hg.), Religious Representation in Place: Exploring Meaningful Spaces at the Intersection of the Humanities and Sciences, New York 2014, 75–88.
• Körperliche und emotionale Aspekte JHWHs aus Genderperspektive, in: Andreas Wagner (Hg.), Göttliche Körper – göttliche Gefühle. Was leisten anthropomorphe und anthropo­pathi­sche Götterkonzepte im Alten Orient und Alten Testament?, OBO 270, Freiburg (CH) 2014, 171–189.
• Der Diskurs um interkulturelle Ehen in Jehud als antikes Beispiel von Inter­sektio­nalität, in: Christine Gerber/Ute Eisen/Angela Standhartinger (Hg.), Doing Gender – Doing Religion. Fallstudien zur Intersektionalität im frühen Judentum, Christentum und Islam, WUNT 302, Tübingen 2013, 129–153.
• Körper und Geschlecht im Alten Testament. Überlegungen zur Geschlechter­differenz, in: Angelika Berlejung/Jan Dietrich/Joachim F. Quack (Hg.), Menschenbilder und Körper­konzepte im Alten Israel, in Ägypten und im Alten Orient, ORA 9, Tübingen 2012, 183–207.

Shelly Matthews

Shelly Matthews (*1961) is Professor of New Testament at the Brite Divinity School, Texas Christian University. She received her ThD in 1998 from Harvard Divinity School, under the direction of Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza whom she assisted in the editing of the two-volume feminist commentary, Searching the Scriptures. She is an ordained United Methodist Minister, and a member of the Society of Biblical Literature (SBL), the American Academy of Religion (AAR), and the North American Patristics Society (NAPS). Her research interests include feminist historiography, Luke-Acts, and Religious Violence. She is currently completing a monograph with the working title, Perfect Martyr: The Stoning of Stephen and the Making of Gentile Christianity.

Bibliographie - extraits:

• “Feminist Historiography” pages 233–48 of Feminist Biblical Studies in the Twentieth Century: Scholarship and Movement (Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza, ed.; The Bible and Women: An Encyclopaedia of Exegesis and Cultural History 9.1; Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2014.
• “The Weeping Jesus and the Daughters of Jerusalem: Gender and Conquest in Lukan lament.” Pages 385–403 of Doing Gender- Doing Religion: Fallstudien zur Intersektionalität in Texten des frühen Judentums, Christentums und Islam. Edited by Christine Gerber, Ute E. Eisen und Angela Standhartinger. Tübingen: Mohr, 2013.
• Feminist Biblical Interpretation,” (co-authored with Suzanne Scholz), pages 303–13 of Oxford Encyclopedia of Biblical Interpretation. (Steven L. McKenzie, ed.; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013).
• The Acts of the Apostles: Taming the Tongues of Fire. Phoenix New Testament Guides (ed. Tat-Siong Benny Liew). Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2013.
• Perfect Martyr: The Stoning of Stephen and the Construction of Christian Identity. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010.
• “Clemency as Cruelty: Forgiveness and Force in the Dying Forgiveness Prayers of Jesus and Stephen” (Forthcoming, Biblical Interpretation January 09).
• “Elite Women, Public Religion, and Christian Propaganda in Acts 16.” Pages 111-33 in A Feminist Companion to Acts of the Apostles. Edited by Amy-Jill Levine. New York/London: T & T Clark, 2004.
• First Converts: Rich Pagan Women and the Rhetoric of Mission in Early Judaism and Christianity. Contraversions: Jews and Other Differences. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001.
• "Thinking of Thecla: Issues in Feminist Historiography." Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion, 17:2 (2001) 39-55.

Moisés Mayordomo

Moisés Mayordomo, (*1966) is Professor for New Testament at the Faculty of Theology, University of Basel, since 2014. After his studies of theology in Gießen, London, Heidelberg and Bern, he took his doctoral degree in 1997 and habilitated 2004 in Bern. There he taught first as a lecturer and since 2012 as associated professor. His research focuses are hermeneutics and methods of literary criticism, the reception history of the New Testament, gender theories and masculinity in ancient texts, Paul’s argumentation and New Testament peace ethics.

Among his publications are:

• Den Anfang hören. Leserorientierte Evangelienexegese am Beispiel von Matthäus 1-2, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1998 (FRLANT 180). (= Dissertation)
• Argumentiert Paulus logisch? Eine Analyse vor dem Hintergrund antiker Logik. WUNT 188; Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2005. (= Habilitation)
• (Hrsg.): Die prägende Kraft der Texte. Hermeneutik und Wirkungsgeschichte des Neuen Testaments (Ein Symposium zu Ehren von Ulrich Luz), Stuttgart: Katholisches Bibelwerk, 2005 (SBS 199).
• (with Walter Dietrich): Gewalt und Gewaltüberwindung in der Bibel, Zürich: TVZ, 2005.
• (Hrsg. with Peter Lampe and Migaku Sato). Neutestamentliche Exegese im Dialog: Hermeneutik – Wirkungsgeschichte – Matthäusevangelium, Festschrift für Ulrich Luz zum 70. Geburtstag, Neukirchen-Vluyn: Neukirchener, 2008.
• Konstruktionen von Männlichkeit in der Antike und in der paulinischen Korintherkorrespondenz, Evangelische Theologie 68/2 (2008), 99-115.
• Möglichkeiten und Grenzen einer neutestamentlich orientierten Tugendethik. Ein programmatischer Entwurf, Theologische Zeitschrift 64 (2008), 213-257.
• Gewaltvermeidung in der Bergpredigt, Zeitschrift für Neues Testament 24 (2009), 12-21.
• Exegese zwischen Geschichte, Text und Rezeption. Literaturwissenschaftliche Zugänge zum Neu-en Testament, Verkündigung und Forschung 55 (2010), 19-37.
• (with Peter-Ben Smit) The Quest for the Historical Jesus in Postmodern Perspective: A Hypothetical Argument, in: T. Holmén / S. Porter (Hg.), Handbook for the Study of the Historical Jesus, Leiden: Brill, 2011, Bd. II, 1377-1409.
• “Act Like Men!” (1 Cor 16:13). Paul’s Exhortation in Different Historical Contexts, in: CrossCurrents 61.4 (2011), 515-528.
• Matthew 1-2 and the Problem of Intertextuality, in: Claire Clivaz, et al. (eds.), Infancy Gospels. Stories and Identities (Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament 281), Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2011, 257-279.

Martti Nissinen

Martti Nissinen (*1959) is Professor of Old Testament studies at the University of Helsinki, Finland, Germany. He achieved his Doctor of Theology in 1992 at the University of Helsinki where he has taught ever since. Before his current appointment, he has been research fellow of the Academy of Finland (1994-2002) and Professor of Bible and the Ancient Near East at the University of Helsinki (2002-2007). In 2008-9, he was member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, USA. He is currently chairman of the board of the Foundation for the Finnish Institute in the Middle East and director of the Centre of Excellence of the Academy of Finland (Changes in Sacred Texts and Traditions).
Nissinen’s main areas of research are prophecy in the ancient Eastern Mediterranean and ancient interpretations of gender. He has published and lectured extensively on same-sex issues, Song of Songs and ancient love poetry, and masculinity.

• “Prophecy as Construct: Ancient and Modern,” in Hans M. Barstad and Robert P. Gordon (ed.), “Thus Speaks Ishtar of Arbela”: Prophecy in Israel, Assyria, and Egypt in the Neo-Assyrian Period. Winona Lake, Ind.: Eisenbrauns 2013. Pp. 11–35.
• “Outlook: Aramaeans Outside of Syria, I. Assyria,” in Herbert Niehr (ed.), Aramaeans in Ancient Syria. Handbook of Oriental Studies, Section 1: The Near and Middle East 106. Leiden: Brill 2014. Pp. 273–296.
• “Biblical Masculinities: Musings on Theory and Agenda,” in Ovidiu Creangă and Peter-Ben Smit (ed.), Biblical Masculinities Foregrounded. Hebrew Bible Monographs 62. Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press 2014. Pp. 271–285.
• “Since When Do Prophets Write?,” in Kristin de Troyer, T. Michael Law and Marketta Liljeström (ed.), In the Footsteps of Sherlock Holmes: Studies in the Biblical Text in Honour of Anneli Aejmelaeus. Contributions to Biblical Exegesis and Theology 72. Leuven: Peeters 2014. Pp. 585–606.
• “Sacred Springs and Liminal Rivers: Water and Prophecy in the Ancient Eastern Mediterranean,” in Ehud Ben Zvi and Christoph Levin (ed.), Thinking of Water in Late Persian/Early Hellenistic Period in Judah. BZAW. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter 2014. Pp. 29–48.
• “Oracles at Qumran? Traces of Inspired Speakers in the Dead Sea Scrolls,” in Mika S. Pajunen and Hanna Tervanotko (ed.), Crossing Imaginary Boundaries: The Dead Sea Scrolls in the Context of Second Temple Judaism. Publications of the Finnish Exegetical Society 108. Helsinki: Finnish Exegetical Society, 2015. Pp. 165–181.
• “(How) Does the Book of Ezekiel Reveal Its Babylonian Background?” Die Welt des Orients 45 (2015): 85–98.
• Forthcoming “Relative Masculinities in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament,” in Ilona Zsolnay (ed.), Being a Man in Antiquity: Negotiating, Legitimating, and Maintaining Ancient Constructs of Masculinity. London and New York: Routledge.

Ulrike Sals

Ulrike Sals (* 1971) is a feminist exegete. She studied Protestant Theory of Religion and German in Paderborn and Bethel/Bielefeld, and did her doctorate in Bochum in 2003. In 2014, she achieved her postdoctoral lecture qualification in Rostock. She worked, teached and researched at different Universities (Würzburg, Greifswald, Berlin, Bern, Hamburg) and was the editor of lectio difficilior from 2004 to 2010.

A selection of publications:

• Die Biographie der 'Hure Babylon'. Studien zur Intertextualit ät der Babylon-Texte in der Bibel. Tübingen 2004 (= Forschung zum Alten Testament II/6).
• Reading Zechariah 5:5­–11. Prophecy, Gender and (Ap)Perception. In: Athalya Brenner (editor): Prophets and Daniel. A Feminist Companion to the Bible (Second Series). Sheffield 2001, S. 186–205.
• The hybrid Story of Balaam (Numbers 22–24). Theology for the Diaspora in the Torah. In: Biblical Interpretation 16 (2008) 315–335.
• Reading the difficult way - for ten years. In: Annette Esser u.a. (Hg.): Feminist Approaches to Interreligious Dialogue (= ESWTR yearbook 17). Leuven 2009, S. 209–214.
• Of Worms and Worlds. Psalm-exegesis and Jewish-Christian Contacts. in Marianne Grohmann, Yair Zakovitch (Herausgeber): Jewish amd Christian Approaches to the Psalms. Freiburg/Br. 2009 (= Herders Biblische Studie ). S. 95–111.
• Die Hure liegt im Auge des Betrachters - Prostitution in der Bibel. In: Diakonia 44 (2013) 87–93.
• "Babylon" forever, or how to divinize what you want to damn. In: Diana Edelman, Ehud Ben Zvi (editors): Memory and the City in Ancient Israel. Winona Lake 2014, pp. 293–308.

Susanne Scholz PhD.

Susanne Scholz PhD., Ph.D., is Professor of Old Testament at Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, U.S.A. Her research engages feminist biblical hermeneutics, epistemologies and sociologies of biblical interpretation, and cultural and literary methodologies. She received a Ph.D. from Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York, under the direction of Phyllis Trible. She also studied Protestant Theology at the Universities of Mainz, Heidelberg, and Jerusalem’s Hebrew University (under the auspices of “Studium in Israel”) with additional degrees: “Erste Kirchliche Examen” (M.Div. equivalent), S.T.M., M.Phil. She is a member of the Society of Biblical Literature (SBL), American Academy of Religion (AAR), Catholic Biblical Association (CBA), European Society of Intercultural Theology and Interreligious Studies (ESITIS), and European Society of Women in Theological Research (ESWTR; chair of the North American Chapter [NA ESWTR]).

Contact information: → www.susanne-scholz.com

She is series editor of Feminist Studies and Sacred Texts, published by → Lexington Books, and welcomes proposals to the series; for more information, visit: http://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/FLyer-Feminist-Studies-and-Sacred-Texts-series-final-version.pdfhttp://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/FLyer-Feminist-Studies-and-Sacred-Texts-series-final-version.pdf

Among her publications are:

• La Violencia in the People’s Lives: Reading the Hebrew Bible on the American Continent (co-ed.; Semeia Press; SBL Press, 2014).

• Feminist Interpretation of the Hebrew Bible in Retrospect: Methods (Volume 3) (ed., Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2016).

• Feminist Interpretation of the Hebrew Bible in Retrospect: Social Locations (Volume 2) (ed., Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2014).

• Feminist Interpretation of the Hebrew Bible in Retrospect: Biblical Books (Volume 1) (ed., Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2013).

• Hidden Truths from Eden: Esoteric Readings of Genesis 1-3 (co-ed.; Semeia Series; SBL Press 2014).

• God Loves Diversity & Justice: Progressive Scholars Speak about Faith, Politics, and the World (ed., Lexington Books, 2013).

• Sacred Witness: Rape in the Hebrew Bible (Fortress Press, 2010).

• Introducing the Women’s Hebrew Bible (T&T Clark, 2007).

• Rape Plots: A Feminist Cultural Study of Genesis 34 (Peter Lang, 2000).

Prof. Dr. Angela Standhartinger

Prof. Dr. Angela Standhartinger (*1964) is professor of New Testament Studies at the Philipps-University in Marburg since 2000. From 1983–1990 she studied theology in Frankfurt a.M., Munich and Heidelberg. 1994 she finished her PhD with a thesis on „Das Frauenbild im Judentum der hellenistischen Zeit. Ein Beitrag anhand von Joseph und Aseneth“ (AGJU 26; Leiden 1995). Her habilitation treatise „Studien zur Entstehungsgeschichte und Intention des Kolosserbriefs“ (NT.S 94; Leiden, Boston, Köln 1999) followed in 1998. From 1998–1999 she was a vicar at the St. Katharinengemeinde in Frankfurt (EKHN) and in the summer of 2000, she was visiting professor at the Union Theological Seminary in New York. Among her subjects of research are the Pauline and post Pauline literature, meal traditions of ancient Christianity against their cultural background as well as early Jewish and Christian history of gender.

Hanna Stenström

Hanna Stenström (*1963) received her doctorate in New Testament Exegesis at the Faculty of Theology, University of Uppsala, in 1999 with The Book of Revelation: A Vision of the Ultimate Liberation or the Ultimate Backlash? A study in 20th Century interpretations of Rev. 14:1-5, with special emphasis on feminist exegesis.
Stenström has taught New Testament, mainly at the University of Uppsala and been a researcher at the Church of Sweden Research Unit (2006-2012). At present, she is an independent scholar.
Stenström’s main research interests are: Feminist exegesis (especially on the Book of Revelation), issues concerning ethical and political dimensions of biblical scholarship, history of biblical scholarship (especially in 20th Century Sweden), women as interpreters of the Bible in 19th and 20th Century, and feminist theology in general.

Academic publications (selected):

• The Book of Revelation. A Vision of the Ultimate Liberation or the Ultimate Backlash? A Study in 20th Century Interpretations of Revelation 14:1-5, with Special Emphasis on Feminist Exegesis (Diss, Uppsala, 1999

Articles:

• ”Unity and Diversity in Nordic Biblical Scholarship” in Roland Boer and Fernando  Segovia (ed) The Future of the Biblical Past. Enivisioning Biblical Studies on a  Global Key (SBL Semeia Studies 66), Atlanta:Society of Biblical Literature, 2012, pp  111–133

• ”The Atheists’s Bible. Two Examples of the ’Cultural Bible’ in Contemporary Sweden” i Back, Sven-Olav och Matti Kankaanniemi (red) Voces Clamantium in Deserto. Essays in Honor of Kari Syreeni  (Studier i exegetik och judaistisk utgivna av Teologiska fakulteten vid Åbo Akademi 11), Åbo:Åbo Akademi, 2012, pp 309–332

• ”Paulus och kvinnorna – tolkningar i 1950-talets Sverige” i Anders Ekenberg, Jonas Holmstrand, Mikael Winninge (red) 2000 år med Paulus, Uppsala:Bibelakademiförlaget, 2013, pp 249–280
  ”’Kristus är med det på banan’. Historiebruk i debatten om prästvigning av kvinnor 1957 och 1958” i Claesson, Urban och Sinikka Neuhaus (red Minne och möjlighet. Kyrka och historiebruk från nationsbygge till pluralism (Forskning för kyrkan 22), Göteborg-Stockholm:Makadam, 2014, pp 105–131.

• ”Framtid för befriade kvinnor eller framtid befriad från kvinnor?” Svensk Teologisk Kvartalsskrift 4/ 2000, 188-195.

• ”Grandma, Räisänen and the Global Village: A Feminist Approach to Ethical Criticism”. in Ismo Dunderberg, Christopher Tuckett och Kari Syreeni Fair Play: Diversity and Conflicts in Early Christianity. Essays in Honour of Heikki Räisänen (Supplements to Novum Testamentumvol CIII), Leiden-Boston-Köln; Brill, 2002, 521-540.

• “Is A Feminist Liberating Exegesis Possible Without Liberation Theology?”, in: lectio difficilior 1/2002, n.p. (http://www.lectio.unibe.ch/02_1/stenstroem.htm).

• ”'Kvinna-se familj' Om den bibliska historiens betydelse för nutida teologi”, in: Anne-Louise Eriksson (ed.), Var kan vi finna en nådig Gud? Om könsmaktsordning i kyrka och teologi (Working Papers in Theology 2), Uppsala: Uppsala universitet, 2002, 13-32.

• “Historical-Critical Approaches and the Emancipation of Women – Unfullfilled Promises and Remaining Possibilities”, in: Caroline Vander Stichele and Todd Penner (eds.), Her Master's Tools? Feminist and Postcolonial Engagements of Historical-Critical Discourse, (Global Perspectives on Biblical Scholarship 9), Atlanta: Society for Biblical Literature, 2005, 31-45.

• ”Fair Play? Some Questions Evoked by Heikki Räisänen’s Beyond New Testament Theology", in: Todd Penner and Caroline Vander Stichele (eds.) Moving Beyond New Testament Theology? Essays in Conversation with Heikki Räisänen, (Publications of the Finnish Exegetical Society 88), Helsinki: Finnish Exegetical Society, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck andRuprecht, 2005, 104-132.

• ”En annan exegetik var möjlig. Om Lydia Wahlströms bruk av forskning kring Bibeln och den tidiga kyrkan.”, in: Lars Hartman et al (eds.), Vad, hur och varför? Reflektioner över bibelvetenskap. Festskrift till Inger Ljung. (AUU. Uppsala Studies in Faiths and Ideologies 17), Uppsala: Uppsala universitet, 2006, 112-127.

• ”Feministische Theologie in Schweden”, in: Hanna Stenström et al (eds.), Scandinavian Critique of Anglo-American Feminist Theology (Journal of the European Society of Women in Theological Research 16), Leuven: Peeters, 2007, 99-207.

• “Selected Bibliography: Feminist Research in Theology in the Nordic Countries”, in: Hanna Stenström et al (eds.), Scandinavian Critique of Anglo- American Feminist Theology (Journal of the European Society of Women in Theological Research 16), Leuven: Peeters, 2007, 209-230.

• “Masculine or Feminine? Male Virgins in Joseph and Aseneth and The Book of Revelation”, in: Bengt Holmberg and Mikael Winninge (eds.), Identity Formation in the New Testament (WUNT 227), Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2008, 199-222.

• “‘…oberoende av tidsbetingade förhållanden och åsikter’. Fyra exegeters inlägg i debatten 1958”, in: Boel Hössjer Sundman (ed.), Äntligen stod hon i predikstolen. historiskt vägval 1958, Stockholm:Verbum, 2008, 105-126.

• “Feminists in Search for a Usable Future”, in: William John Lyons and Jorunn Økland (eds.), The Way the World Ends? The Apocalypse of John in Culture and Ideology (The Bible in the Modern World 19), Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2009, 240-266.

• “‘They Have Not Defiled Themselves With Women …’. Christian Identity According to the Book of Revelation”, in: Amy-Jill Levine and Maria May Robbins (eds.), A Feminist Companion to the Apocalypse of John (Feminist Companion to the New Testament and Early Christian Writings 13), London – New York: T&T Clark International, 2010, 33-54.

• ”Boer’s Manifesto: Part of the Solution or Part of the Problem? Some Reflections from a Swedish Perspective”, in: Roland Boer (ed.), Secularism and Biblical Studies (Bible World), London: Equinox, 2010, 40-50.

• ”Is Salvation Only for True Men? On Gendered Imagery in the Book of Revelation”, in: Michael Laban and Outi Lehtipuu (eds.), Imagery in the Book of Revelation (Contributions to   Biblical Exegesis and Theology 60), Leuven- Paris – Walpole, MA: Peeters, 2011, 183-198.

Edited books:

• Religionens offentlighet. Om religionens plats i samhället.(Forskning för kyrkan 20), Skellefteå: Artos, 2013
• Scandinavian Critique of Anglo-American Feminist Theology (Journal of the European Society of Women in Theological Research 16), Leuven: Peeters,2007 (with Elina Vuola, Sabine Bieberstein and Ursula Rapp).

• På spaning…Från Svenska kyrkans forskardagar 2009 (Forskning för kyrkan 11), Stockholm: Verbum, 2010.

Edited text books for academic education:

• Allvarligt talat. Om predikan. (Forskning för kyrkan 9), Stockholm: Verbum, 2008.

• Att tolka Bibeln och Koranen Lund: Studentlitteratur, 2009.

• Levande ord. Tolkningar av abrahamitiska källtexter, Lund: Studentlitteratur, 2012 (with Susanne Olsson).

Chapters in textbooks for academic education in theology/religion:

• ”Vem har del i framtiden? En feministisk textanalys av Upp 17:1-19:10.”. in: Dieter Mitternacht and Anders Runesson (eds.), Jesus och de första kristna. Inledning till Nya testamentet, Stockholm: Verbum, 2006, 465-474.

• ”Feministisk bibeltolkning i kristet präglade samhällen”, in: Hanna Stenström (ed.), Att tolka Bibeln och Koranen, Lund: Studentlitteratur, 2009, 137-147.

• ”Kristendomens Jesus, Guds son”, in: Susanne Olsson and Hanna Stenström (eds.), Levande ord. Tolkningar av abrahamitiska källtexter, Lund: Studentlitteratur, 2012, 95-113.
• ”Minnet av Maria Magdalena – från evangelierna till feministisk kristendom”, in: Susanne Olsson und Hanna Stenström (eds.) Levande ord. Tolkningar av abrahamitiska källtexter, Lund: Studentlitteratur, 2012, 183-200.