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Mothers and Rituals of Child-Naming in Ancient Israel
Susan Ackerman, Preston H. Kelsey Professor of Religion; Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; and Professor of Jewish Studies, Dartmouth College
Susan Ackerman specializes in the religion of ancient Israel and the religions of Israel's neighbors (Mesopotamia, Egypt, and Canaan). She has recently completed two new books, Women and the Religion of Ancient Israel, to be published in February 2022 by Yale University Press, and Gods, Goddesses, and the Women Who Serve Them, to be published in November 2022 by William B. Eerdmans Publishing.
The God of Abraham, Rebekah, and Jacob: The Place of the Mother in the Literary Structure of the Ancestral History
Cynthia Chapman, Adelia A.F. Johnston and Harry Thomas Frank Professor and Chair of Jewish Studies
Cynthia Chapman was awarded Best Book Relating to the Hebrew Bible for 2017 by the Biblical Archaeology Society for her book, The House of the Mother: The Social Roles of Maternal Kin in Biblical Hebrew Narrative and Poetry (Yale University Press, 2016).
Conceiving Mothers Without Children in the Hebrew Bible
Sari Fein, Dissertation Scholar, Brandeis Women's Studies Research Center; Lecturer in the Department of Religion, Smith College
Sari Fein's current project is entitled "Conceiving Motherhood: The Reception of Biblical Mothers in the Early Jewish Imagination.” Her recent publications include “From Pain to Redemption: 1 Timothy 2:15 in Its Jewish Context.” In Gender and Second Temple Judaism, edited by Kathy Ehrensberger and Shayna Sheinfeld. Lexington Books/Fortress Press (2020). Her areas of interest include Hebrew Bible, Judaism and Christianity in late antiquity, and women and gender studies.
Palaces Full of Mothers: De-centering the "Mother of the King" in the Hebrew Bible
Cat Quine, Assistant Professor of Hebrew Bible in the Faculty of Arts, University of Nottingham
Cat Quine is the author of Casting Down the Host of Heaven: The Rhetoric of Ritual Failure in the Polemic against the Host of Heaven (Brill, 2020). Her current research focuses on queenship, royal female power, and the interrelations between power and gender.
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Join event organizers Kristine Henriksen Garroway (HUC-JIR), Kerry Sonia (Colby College), and Jaqueline Vanyntrub (Yale University) as they host four leading scholars in a discussion of motherhood and the many ways that it was envisioned within the Hebrew Bible and Israelite religion. This event is hosted in collaboration with HUC-JIR and Renewed Philology at Yale.
