A strange animal (photo, Ralf Thiede)
Below is a short list of research projects, articles, and papers recently published or currently in the works.
Books:
Thiede, Barbara (2022a), Male Friendship, Homosociality, and Women of the Hebrew Bible: Malignant Fraternities (Routledge Studies in the Biblical World, 5), London and New York: Routledge. DOI 10.4324/9780429326226.
Thiede, Barbara (2022b), Rape Culture in the House of David: A Company of Men (Rape Culture, Religion and the Bible: Routledge Focus), London and New York: Routledge. DOI 10.4324/9781003014911.
Forthcoming:
Thiede, Barbara. Divine Masculinity in the Book of Samuel: How Yhwh Models the Man. Bloomsbury.
Thiede, Barbara. Texts of Trauma: Scholars’ Reflections on Rape, Rape Culture, and the Bible. Routledge.
Selected Articles and Chapters:
Thiede, Barbara, and Johanna Stiebert 2025 (March). “Feminism, Bible, Texts and Terror – A Reflection.” Feminist Encounters.
Thiede, Barbara (2024b).“Hidden in Plain Sight: Saul’s Male Trauma Narrative in 1 Samuel,” BibInt 32 (3): 221–42. DOI 10.1163/15685152-20231763.
Thiede, Barbara (2024b). “Taking Biblical Authors at Their Word: On Scholarly Ethics, Sexual Violence, and Rape Culture in the Hebrew Bible,” JBL 143 (2): 185–205. DOI 10.15699/jbl.1432.2024.1.
Thiede, Barbara (2023). “Disruption, Disorder, and Death: Eve (and Lilith) in Classical Rabbinic Literature.” The Routledge Companion to Eve, eds. Caroline Blyth and Emily Colgan, 74–87. New York: Routledge.
Thiede, Barbara (forthcoming). “Violence in the David Narrative: A Divine Order,” in Chris Greenough, Johnathan Jodamus, Mmapula Kebaneilwe, and Johanna Stiebert (eds.), Violence in Bible, London: Bloomsbury T&T Clark.
Thiede, Barbara (forthcoming). “Can’t Help Falling in Love with you: Yhwh and David’s Queer, Passionate, Abusive Love Affair.” T&T Clark Handbook of Sexualities in The
Forthcoming. Thiede, Barbara, and Johanna Stiebert, “The Ethics of Citing Violent Scholars.” Violence in Bible, eds. Johanna Stiebert and Chris Greenough. London: Bloomsbury.