Susanne Scholz

Hebrew Bible/Old Testament; gender in biblical literature; Hebrew Bible in film; historiography; narrative literature; social location and biblical hermeneutics

Feminist hermeneutics; epistemologies and sociologies of interpretation; cultural and literary studies; violence against women in sacred texts

:: The Oxford Handbook of Feminist Approaches to the Hebrew Bible. Editor. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021.

:: The New Diaspora and the Global Prophetic. Co-editor. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, 2021. 

:: The Bible as Political Artifact: On the Feminist Study of the Hebrew Bible. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 2017.

:: Introducing the Women’s Hebrew Bible:Feminism, Gender Justice, and the Study of the Old Testament. Second Revised and Expanded Edition. T&T Clark Bloomsbury, 2017.

:: La Violencia and the Hebrew Bible: Politics and Histories of Biblical Hermeneutics on the American Continent. Co-editor. Semeia Studies. Atlanta, GA: Society of Biblical Literature, 2016.

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

:: Hidden Truths from Eden: Esoteric Readings of Genesis 1-3.  Co-editor. Semeia Studies.  Atlanta, GA: Society of Biblical Literature, 2014.

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

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

:: God Loves Diversity and Justice: Progressive Scholars Speak about Faith, Politics, and the World. Editor. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2013.

:: Sacred Witness: Rape in the Hebrew Bible. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2010.

:: Introducing the Women’s Hebrew Bible. London: T&T Clark, 2007.

:: Biblical Studies Alternatively: An Introductory Reader. Editor. Upper Saddle River, NJ:  Prentice Hall, 2003.

:: Rape Plots: A Feminist Cultural Study of Genesis 34. New York: Peter Lang, 2000/2002.

President of the Southwest SBL Region, 2020-2021; Member of the SBL Committee on the Status of Women in the Profession Committee since January 2013; Chair of the North American Section of the European Society of Women in Theological Research (NA ESWTR) since 2002; Editorial Board Member of the e-journal lectio difficilior: European Feminist Journal for Feminist Exegesis since September 2004; SMU Faculty Senator since Fall 2010 (on the Executive Board from 2011-2013).