Bernadette Brooten

Bernadette J. Brooten is an American religious scholar and Kraft-Hiatt Professor of Christian Studies at Brandeis University.

Biography

Brooten graduated from University of Portland with a B.A., and Harvard University with a Ph.D. in 1982. Her doctoral thesis was entitled ''Inscriptional Evidence for Women as Leaders in the Ancient Synagogue''. Brooten studied theology at the University of Tübingen and at Hebrew University. She taught at the Claremont Graduate School, the University of Tübingen, Harvard Divinity School, and the University of Oslo with a 1998 Fulbright Fellowship.
She served on the Advisory Committee for the Women's Studies in Religion Program at Harvard Divinity School from 1997 to 2008. She is also a linguist with eight languages besides English to her credit.

Brooten is the founder and director of the Feminist Sexual Ethics Project at Brandeis.

Her work is located primarily within the New Testament, post-biblical Judaism, early literature and history, women and religion, and feminist sexual ethics (with a particular focus on law and sexuality).

She is currently writing a book on early Christian women who were enslaved or who owned enslaved laborers.

Awards

* 1998 MacArthur Fellows Program
* National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship

Selected works

*"The modern face of slavery", ''The Boston Globe'', November 19, 2006
* ''Beyond Slavery: Overcoming Its Religious and Sexual Legacies'', Palgrave-MacMillan, 2010,
* ''Women Leaders in The Ancient Synagogue: Inscriptional Evidence and Background Issues'', Scholars Press, 1982,
* ''Love Between Women: Early Christian Responses to Female Homoeroticism'', University of Chicago Press, 1996,
*"Female Homoeroticism", ''Immaculate & powerful: the female in sacred image and social reality'', Editors Clarissa W. Atkinson, Constance H. Buchanan, Margaret Ruth Miles, Beacon Press, 1985,
* "Acts of the Apostles", ''Women priests: a Catholic commentary on the Vatican declaration'', Editors Leonard J. Swidler, Arlene Swidler, Paulist Press, 1977,
*''Frauen in der Männerkirche'', Editors Bernadette Brooten, Norbert Greinacher, Kaiser, 1982,

References

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Living people
Brandeis University faculty
University of Portland alumni
Harvard University alumni
Claremont McKenna College faculty
Academic staff of the University of Tübingen
MacArthur Fellows
Academic staff of the University of Oslo
German women academics
21st-century American historians
American women historians
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century American women
Historians from California