Web Sites

Women in Ancient Christianity: The New Discoveries
Reflections by Karen King: part of the PBS From Jesus to Christ web site. Features links to texts including the Gospel of Mary Magdalene and the Acts of Paul and Thecla.

The Roles for Women
More material from the PBS site: these reflections are written by Elizabeth Clark and Elaine Pagels.

Diotima: Women and Gender in the Ancient World
Diotima, based at the University of Kentucky, U.S.A., is the excellent web site focusing on women and gender in the ancient world. There is a good deal of information here of use to the New Testament Scholar including the following page:

Diotima: Biblical Studies
From the same Diotima site, this is their useful and extensive page on Biblical Studies.

Lectio Difficilior
The European Electronic Journal for Feminist Exegesis. Editors are Silvia Schroer (Bern) and Caroline Vander Stichele (Amsterdam). It has a user-friendly lay-out and the web site is available in German, French and English. For articles of interest to New Testament Scholars, see the Articles and Reviews page below.

Women's History: Religion
By Jone Johnson Lewis: clear, helpful and annotated "About.com" guide to women's history, featuring extensive information on religion as well as other topics.

Hulda Feminist Theology
By Rebecca Unsoeld: A comprehensive home page on Feminist Theology with bibliography, original materials and links. Materials are available in English (main link) and German.

Feminist and Womanist Criticism
At Vanderbilt Divinity Library: bibliography and an excerpt from George Aichele (et al), The Postmodern Bible.

Internet Women's History Sourcebook
Edited by Paul Halsall, part of the Internet History Sourcebooks Project: extensive access to texts relevant to women's history, featuring several of interest to the Biblical Scholar.

Sunshine for Women: Book Summaries
The Sunshine for Women Web site provides fine digests of many important works by feminist scholars. Note particularly the following:

• Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza, In Memory of Her
• Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza, Jesus: Miriam's Child, Sophia's Prophet
• Ross Shepard Kraemer, Her Share of the Blessings
• Elaine Pagels, The Gnostic Gospels
• Letty M. Russell (ed.), Feminist Interpretation of the Bible
• Letty M. Russell, The Liberating Word
• Jane Schaberg, The Illegitimacy of Jesus

Discussion List

Feminist Theology
Email discussion on all aspects of Christian and Jewish feminist theology, based at Mailbase. Subscription information and searchable archives are available from this URL.