Alice Yafeh-Deigh

Enslavement and Gender in the New Testament

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“Caryn Reeder's Enslavement and Gender in the New Testament is a bold, meticulous, and morally serious study of slavery, Jesus, and unconventional masculinity. With careful attention to Roman enslavement, gendered honor, footwashing, crucifixion, and the unsettling language of slavery in Paul, 1 Peter, and the Gospels, Reeder rejects superficial appeals to 'servant leadership' and offers readers a far richer account of discipleship, power, and status. Historically rigorous, exegetically compelling, and theologically consequential—this book is essential reading for New Testament scholars, scholars of gender and slavery in antiquity, theologians, pastors, and serious readers of Scripture.”

Eve Isn't Evil

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“Eve Isn't Evil is a timely, much-needed book addressing an essential need to read the Bible so that it becomes the living, incarnate Word of God within the reader’s lived realities. As someone whose research and writing are profoundly dedicated to the service of the academy and the church, Julie Faith Parker has a rare talent for making complex biblical texts accessible to readers inside and outside the biblical studies field. In Eve Isn’t Evil, Parker takes an honest, accessible, personal, and pragmatic approach to biblical interpretation, providing her readers with helpful ways of reading biblical texts through a feminist lens. Parker does a beautiful job showing that readers from diverse backgrounds can use a feminist interpretive lens to arrive at differently contextualized meanings because of the particularities of their social locations. I strongly recommend Eve Isn’t Evil!”