...got so busy with various projects and things that I didn't find the time to update...but this will change soon. For now, check out the announcement of my new book, "Sacred Witness: Rape in the Hebrew Bible," to be published with Fortress Press. You can pre-order here: http://www.amazon.com/Sacred-Witness-Rape-Hebrew-Bible/dp/0800638611/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1250471022&sr=1-1

The pre-order price is really good at $23.10 (as of August 15) and I hope you will get your copy. I will be happy to sign it if you wish--just let me know the next time we'll see each other!

March 29, 2009 in Newburyport, MA--Come and join us!

WHY THE BIBLE MATTERS IN THE MODERN WORLD
THE BIBLE FOR THINKING PEOPLE

Sunday, March 29, 2009
St. Paul’s Church
166 High Street
Newburyport, MA
1 - 5 p.m.
$20 per person

Topics

“The Bible and the Modern World” – Ethics
&
“Eve and Adam in the 20th Century” – Gender Issues

Led by
Susanne Scholz, Ph.D.
Writer, teacher and researcher in Theological and Religious Studies
Professor, Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University
Author of "Introducing the Women’s Hebrew Bible" (T& T Clark, 2007)

Sponsored by:
Greater Newburyport Clergy Association representing:
Annunciation Greek Orthodox
Bellevue Congregational
Christian Science
Congregation Ahavas Ahim
First Parish Newbury
First Presbyterian - Old SouthFirst Religious Society
Hope Community
Immaculate Conception
People’s United Methodist
Salvation Army
St. Paul’s Episcopal
Annunciation Greek Orthodox

March 5-7, 2009 in Dallas, TX at SMU's Perkins School of Theology

Here is another event that you might enjoy attending:
"Perkins Theological School for the Laity"
From March 5-7, 2009

For more information, click here: http://smu.edu/theology/public_progs/PTSL/laity_main.html

My course is on Saturday. Check it out at http://smu.edu/theology/public_progs/PTSL/courses.html#s3

Looking forward to seeing you there.
Tschüs!

Houston Lay School of Theology on Jan. 24, 2009

Come to Houston on January 24, 2009 and join my session at the Houston Lay School of Theology!

http://smu.edu/theology/public_progs/LaySchool/Houstonmain.html
http://smu.edu/theology/public_progs/LaySchool/HoustonSch.html


Eve and Adam in the Twenty-First Century
An Introduction to Gendered Bible Readings

This course explores the history of feminist approaches to the Hebrew Bible, engages in interactive “play,” examines the contributions of several feminist scholars, and provides conversation and text work focused on Eve, Rahab, Jezebel and Ruth as “other” women.

Please bring your Old Testament Bible.


Suggested Reading
Introducing the Women’s Hebrew Bible, Susanne Scholz
Available at http://www.womenshebrewbible.com/buythebook.html
or any bookstore (online and offline)



For more information on the Lay School of Theology Program, visit this website http://smu.edu/theology/public_progs/LaySchool/Houstonmain.html

Questions? Email me at sscholz@smu.edu or author@womensHebrewBible.com.

I am looking forward to seeing you in Houston!

Yours truly,
s2
http://www.womenshebrewbible.com/

SBL meeting in Boston November 2008

In case you missed my talks at the SBL meeting in Boston 2008, I am listing them here so that you can keep track of what was going on there:

1. "A 'Third-Kind' of Feminist Reading: Toward a Sociology of Feminist Biblical Hermeneutics.” Paper presented at the program united “Feminist Interpretation of the Bible” of this year’s topic “Exploring the Parameters of Feminist Methodologies,” Boston, MA, November 24, 2008.

2. “Dialogical Beginnings: Introductory Statement.” Paper presented with Dora Mbuwayesanga at the panel “Socio-Geographical and Hermeneutical Differences: Challenges and Opportunities in Contemporary Feminist Biblical Studies,” at the Society of Biblical Literature, Boston, MA, November 23, 2008.

Boldern/Switzerland, May 29 @ 5:30 pm

Join me at Boldern Conference Center in Zürich/Switzerland on May 29, 2008 at 5:30 pm (Hirschengraben 50).

In conjunction with a conference on "The Bible in a (Political) Crisis: Feminist Contributions from the USA", I will give a lecture on "Die Krux mit der Bibelbuchstäblichkeit: Die Christliche Rechte in den USA."

This talk is based on several of my publications, such as:

• “Eve’s Daughters Liberated? The Book of Genesis in Feminist Biblical Studies.” In All the Women Went Out After Her: A Retrospective of Feminist Hermeneutics of the Hebrew Bible, ed. F. Rachel Magdalene (Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press, forthcoming)
• “Bible Truth, Mega Churches, and the Christian Right in the USA.” In Theologie von Frauen für Frauen? Chancen und Probleme der Rückbindung feministischer Theologie an die Praxis. Beiträge zum Internationalen Kongress anlässlich des zwanzigjährigen Gründungsjubiläums der Europäischen Gesellschaft für theologische Forschung von Frauen (ESWTR), ed. Irmtraud Fischer, 202-226. Münster: LIT, 2007.
• “The Christian Right’s Discourse on Gender and the Bible.” Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion 21, no. 1 (Spring 2005): 83-104.

As usual, copies of Introducing the Women's Hebrew Bible will be available for purchase. See you then and there!

April 22 Talk @ North Prospect Union UCC in Medford, MA (10:30 am)

Come and join us at the ElderSpirit Group of the North Prospect Union UCC in Medford, MA, on April 22 at 10:30 for coffee, conversation, and lunch!

At 11 AM I will talk about my book "Introducing the Women's Hebrew Bible"!

Copies of the books will be available for sale.

The meeting and talk will take place at:

144 North Street

Medford, MA 02155

For more information on North Prospect Union UCC, visit http://www.northprospectchurch.org/

See you then and there!