S2E1 - Jewish and Christian Women in the Ancient Mediterranean - Sara Parks, Shayna Sheinfeld and Meredith Warren

Ancient Afterlives

In this episode we - Joseph Scales and Charlotte Trombin - interview Sara Parks, Shayna Sheinfeld and Meredith Warren about their new book - Jewish and Christian Women in the Ancient Mediterranean. We are so grateful for their time and hope you enjoy the interview.

Sara Parks is Assistant Professor in Biblical Studies (New Testament) at Dublin City University, Ireland. She researches gender in late Second-Temple Judaism and early Christianity. Parks is the author of Gender in the Rhetoric of Jesus: Women in Q (2019).

Shayna Sheinfeld is a Fellow at the Frankel Institute for Judaic Studies, University of Michigan, USA. Her current project examines diversity in Jewish leadership by challenging androcentric ideas of authority in both ancient sources and contemporary scholarship. Sheinfeld recently edited Gender and Second-Temple Judaism (2020).

Meredith J. C. Warren is Senior Lecturer at the University of Sheffield, UK, where she is Director of the Sheffield Institute for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies. Author of Food and Transformation in Ancient Mediterranean Literature (2019), Warren researches shared cultural understandings of eating in ancient narratives.

Bibliography:

1. Ahmed, Sara. Complaint! Durham: Duke University Press, 2021.
2. Brooten, Bernadette. Women Leaders in the Ancient Synagogue: Inscriptional Evidence and Background Issues. Atlanta: Scholars, 2020. (This book is online open access.)
3. Conway, Colleen. Behold the Man: Jesus and Greco-Roman Masculinity. Oxford: OUP, 2008.
4. Ehrensperger, Kathy and Shayna Sheinfeld, eds. Gender and Second-Temple Judaism. Lanham: Lexington Fortress, 2020.
5. Junior, Nyasha. An Introduction to Womanist Biblical Interpretation. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2015.
6. Kateusz, Ally. Mary and Early Christian Women: Hidden Leadership. London: Palgrave MacMillan, 2019. (This book is online open access.)
7. Kraemer, Ross Shepard. Women’s Religions in the Greco-Roman World: A Sourcebook. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.
8. Lefkowitz, Mary R. and Maureen B. Fant. Women’s Life in Greece and Rome: A Source Book in Translation. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University, 1992.
9. Parks, Sara. “‘The Brooten Phenomenon’: Moving Women from the Margins in Second Temple and New Testament Scholarship.” The Bible & Critical Theory 15.1 (2019): 46-64.
10. Schussler Fiorenza, Elisabeth. But She Said: Feminist Practices of Biblical Interpretation. Boston: Beacon, 1992.
11. Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies 1.2 (2020) The Bible: Transgender and Genderqueer Perspectives