Faculty Guide

Title

Myra and Robert Kraft and Jacob Hiatt Professor of Christian Studies

Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Near Eastern and Judaic Studies
Women's and Gender Studies

Expertise

Christian studies.

Awards and Honors

Elected President of the New England Society of Biblical Literature (2002)

Elected Vice-President of the New England Society of Biblical Literature (2001)

Ford Foundation grant for Feminist Sexual Ethics Project (2001 - 2002)

Outstanding Service in Mentoring, Society of Biblical Literature (2001)

Liberal Arts Fellowship in Law, Harvard Law School (1999)

MacArthur Foundation Fellowship (1998 - 2003)

Fulbright Fellowship (1997 - 1998)

Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction (Love Between Women: Early Christian Responses to Female Homoeroticism) (1997 - 1998)

American Academy of Religion Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion (historical studies) (Love Between Women: Early Christian Responses to Female Homoeroticism) (1996 - 1997)

Lambda Literary Award (lesbian studies) (Love Between Women: Early Christian Responses to Female Homoeroticism) (1996 - 1997)

American Council of Learned Societies Grant-in-Aid (1993)

American Association of University Women Faculty Career Enhancement Grant (1992)

Naruth Foundation Fellowship (1992)

American Academy of Religion grant (1991)

Bunting Institute Fellow (1989)

National Endowment for Humanities Fellowship (1989)

Harvard University President's Fund for Innovation: seminar, "The Bible and Public Policy" (1988)

Danforth & Kent Foundations Fellowship (1978)

Arthur Darby Nock Award (1977)

Roothbert Foundation Fellowship (1977)

Sinclair Kennedy Traveling Fellowship (1977)

Danforth & Kent Foundations Fellowship (1976)

Danforth & Kent Foundations Fellowship (1975)

Risq. G. Haddad Foundation grant for students of Lebanese and Syrian origins (1968)

Courses Taught

NEJS	29a	Feminist Sexual Ethics in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
NEJS	29b	Slavery, Women, and Religion
NEJS	128a	Introduction to Christianity
NEJS	128b	History of Jewish and Christian Women in the Roman Empire
NEJS	130a	The New Testament: A Historical Introduction
NEJS	148b	Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgendered Jews and Christians: Sources and Interpretations
WMGS	120b	Women and Gender in Religion
WMGS	198a	Women's and Gender Studies Research Seminar

Scholarship

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.