Title

Myra and Robert Kraft and Jacob Hiatt Professor of Christian Studies

Degree

Ph.D., Harvard University

Field of Specialty

Christian studies.

Contact Information

Mandel Center for the Humanities 113
781-736-2978
brooten@brandeis.edu

Personal Web Page

Bernadette Brooten

Publications

Brooten, Bernadette. "Early Christian Enslaved Families (1st–4th C.)." Borders, Limits and the Roman Family. First ed. Ed. Christian Laes, Katariina Mustakallio, and Ville Vuolanto. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014 (forthcoming)

Brooten, Bernadette. "Enslaved Women in Basil of Caesarea’s Canonical Letters: An Intersectional Analysis." Doing Gender, Doing Religion. First ed. Ed. Ute Eisen, Christine Gerber, and Angela Standhartinger. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2013

Brooten, Bernadette. "Homosexuality (female)." Encyclopedia of Ancient History. First ed. 2012.

Bernadette J. Brooten, with the editorial assistance of Jacqueline L. Hazelton, ed. Beyond Slavery: Overcoming Its Religious and Sexual Legacies. First ed. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.

Brooten, Bernadette. "Introduction." Beyond Slavery: Overcoming Its Religious and Sexual Legacies. First ed. Ed. Bernadette J. Brooten, with the editorial assistance of Jacqueline L. Hazelton. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. 1–29.

Brooten, Bernadette. "Reading the Bible Through the Lens of Freedom: Feminist Sexual Ethics." Seminary Ridge Review 13. 1 (2010): 1–15.

Brooten, Bernadette. "Patristic Interpretations of Romans 1:26." Studia Patristica XVIII: Papers of the 1983 Oxford Patristics Conference. Ed. Elizabeth Livingstone.. (1985): 338-340. The Writings of St. Paul: Annotated Texts, Reception and Criticism. 2d ed. vol. 1 Ed. Wayne A. Meeks and John T. Fitzgerald. New York: Norton, 2007.

Brooten,Bernadette. "Der lange Schatten der Sklaverei im Leben von Frauen und Maedchen." Dem Tod nicht Glauben: Sozialgeschichte der Bibel: Festschrift fuer Luise Schottroff zum 70. Geburtstag., 2004. 488-503.

Brooten,Bernadette. Love Between Women: Early Christian Responses to Female Homoeroticism. University of Chicago Press, 1996.

Brooten,Bernadette, 36. Women Leaders in the Ancient Synagogue: Inscriptional Evidence and Background Issues. Brown Judaic Studies, 1982.

Brooten,Bernadette, co-ed. Norbert Greinacher. Frauen in der Maennerkirche?, Co-editor. Mainz: Gruenewald; Munich: Kaiser, 1982.

Courses Taught

CLAS 192b Slavery in the Roman World (1st-4th C. CE)
NEJS 29a Feminist Sexual Ethics in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
NEJS 29b Slavery, Women, and Religion
NEJS 128a Introduction to Christianity
NEJS 130a The New Testament: A Historical Introduction
NEJS 148b Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Jews and Christians: Sources and Interpretations
NEJS/SOC 171b Religions in Greater Boston
WMGS 120b Women and Gender in Religion
WMGS 208b Women's and Gender Studies Research Seminar