Harold C. Washington is the professor of

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in Kansas City, Missouri. He holds both M.Div. and Ph.D. degrees from

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. He is a member of the

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(Quakers). He wrote the introduction and annotations for the books of

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and

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in the third edition of ''The New Oxford Annotated Bible

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''.

Biography

Washington's primary academic interests are: the

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Studies, and biblical interpretation.https://web.archive.org/web/20050205175835/http://www.spst.edu/Academics/Washington.htm

Works

Chapters

He has contributed chapters to the following books: * “Signifying on Exodus: Reading Race and Culture in Zora Neale Hurston’s Moses: Man of the Mountain,” in ''A Feminist Companion to Exodus to Deuteronomy'',

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, ed., The Feminist Companion to the Bible, 6 (Sheffield, UK:

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, 2000), 41-58. * “‘Lest He Die in the Battle and Another Man Take Her’: Violence and the Construction of Gender in the Laws of Deuteronomy 20-22,” in ''Gender and Law in the Hebrew Bible and the Ancient Near East'', Victor H. Matthews,

Bernard M. Levinson Bernard Malcolm Levinson serves as Professor of Classical and Near Eastern Studies and of Law at the University of Minnesota, where he holds the Berman Family Chair in Jewish Studies and Hebrew Bible. He is the author of ''Deuteronomy and the Herm ...

and

Tikva Frymer-Kensky Tikva Simone Frymer-Kensky (Hebrew: תקווה פריימר-קנסקי; October 21, 1943 – August 31, 2006) was a professor at the University of Chicago Divinity School. She received her MA and PhD from Yale University. She had previously ser ...

, eds., JSOT Supplement Series, 262 (Sheffield, UK: Sheffield Academic Press, 1998), 185-213. * “Rape as a Military Metaphor in the Hebrew Bible,” co-authored with Pamela Gordon, in ''A Feminist Companion to the Latter Prophets''; Athalya Brenner, ed., ''The Feminist Companion to the Bible'', 8 (Sheffield, UK: Sheffield Academic Press, 1995), 308-325. * “‘And Your Daughters Shall Prophesy’: Gender and Culture in Early Quaker Biblical Interpretation,” in ''Text and Experience: Towards a Cultural Exegesis of the Bible'', Daniel Smith-Christopher, ed., The Biblical Seminar, 35 (Sheffield, UK: Sheffield Academic Press, 1995), 23-42. * “The ‘Strange Woman’ of Proverbs 1-9 and Post-Exilic Judean Society,” in ''Second Temple Studies 2: Temple and Community in the Persian Period'', Tamara C. Eskenazi and Kent H. Richards, eds., JSOT Supplement Series, 175 (Sheffield, UK: JSOT Press, 1994), 217-42; reprinted in ''A Feminist Companion to Wisdom Literature'', Athalya Brenner, ed., ''The Feminist Companion to the Bible'', 9 (Sheffield, UK: Sheffield Academic Press, 1995), 157-84.

Books

*''Escaping Eden: New Feminist Perspectives on the Bible'', co-edited with Susan Lochrie Grahm and Pamela Thimmes (Sheffield Academic Press and New York University Press, 1998/1999). *''Wealth and Poverty in

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and the Hebrew Proverbs'' (Atlanta, GA: Scholars Press, 1994).

References

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