Early Christianity, Feminist Historiography, New Testament World

Books: The Acts of the Apostles: Taming the Tongues of Fire. Phoenix New Testament Guides (ed. Tat-Siong Benny Liew). Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2013;

Perfect Martyr: The Stoning of Stephen and the Construction of Christian Identity. Oxford University Press, 2010.

First Converts: Rich Pagan Women and the Rhetoric of Mission in Early Judaism and Christianity. Contraversions: Jews and Other Differences. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001.

Edited volumes: E. Leigh Gibson and Shelly Matthews, eds. Violence in the New Testament: Jesus Followers and Other Jews under Empire. New York/London: T & T Clark International, 2005.

Shelly Matthews, Cynthia Kittredge, Melanie Johnson DeBaufre, eds. Walk in the Ways of Wisdom: Essays in Honor of Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza. Harrisburg/London/New York: Trinity Press International, 2003.

Selected Articles:

“Fleshly Resurrection, Wifely Submission, and the Myth of the Primal Androgyne: the link between Luke 24:39 and Ephesians 5:30.” Pages 101-117 of Delightful Acts: New Essays on Canonical and Non-Canonical Acts, edited by Harold Attridge, Dennis MacDonald, and Claire Rothschild. WUNT. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2017.

“To be one and the same with the woman whose head is shaven (1Cor 11:5b): Resisting the violence of 1 Corinthians 11:2-16 from the bottom of the kyriarchal pyramid.” Pages 31-51 in Sexual Violence and Sacred Texts. Edited by Amy Kalmanofsky. Cambridge, MA: Feminist Studies in Religion Books, 2017.

“Fleshly Resurrection, Authority Claims, and the Scriptural Practices of Lukan Christianity” JBL 136 (2017): 163-83.

“Elijah, Ezekiel and Romulus: Luke’s Flesh and Bones (Luke 24:39) in Light of Ancient Narratives of Ascent, Resurrection, and Apotheosis.” Pages 161-82 in On Prophets, Warriors and Kings: Former Prophets through the Eyes of their Interpreters. Edited by Ariel Feldman and George Brooke. BZAW 470. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2016.

“A Feminist Analysis of the Veiling Passage (1 Corinthians 11:2–16): Who really cares that Paul was not a Gender Egalitarian after all?” Lectio Difficilior 2 (2015). http://lectio.unibe.ch/

“Feminist Historiography.” Pages 233-48 in Feminist Biblical Studies in the Twentieth Century: Scholarship and Movement. Edited by Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza. The Bible and Women: An Encyclopaedia of Exegesis and Cultural History 9.1. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2014.

"Feminist Biblical Interpretation,” (co-authored with Suzanne Scholz), pages 303-13 of Oxford Encyclopedia of Biblical Interpretation. (Steven L. McKenzie, ed.; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013).

“The Weeping Jesus and the Daughters of Jerusalem: Gender and Conquest in Lukan Lament.” Pages 385 -403 of Doing Gender- Doing Religion: Fallstudien zur Intersektionalität in Texten des frühen Judentums, Christentums und Islam. Edited by Christine Gerber, Ute E. Eisen und Angela Standhartinger. Tübingen: Mohr, 2013.