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"Even when a scholar explains and defines his use of an etic term like harem, it is methodologically more sound to build on emic concepts like bēt isāti ('house of women'), which the speakers of Akkadian themselves used."—Tero Alstola & Saana Svärd buff.ly/5eftWwr #WomensHistoryMonth

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"I hope to suggest a way of thinking about memory in relation to the literature in which it is preserved and to inquire about how history and memory inform each other in dynamic relationship."—Meredith J. C. Warren buff.ly/7p47g1o #WomensHistoryMonth

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"These are the statutes by which the wise leader shall walk with every living being according to the rule appropriate to each time and according to the weight of each man." Sarianna Metso. Use code WHM1 to get the ebook for $5 today. buff.ly/y3XrN1q #WomensHistoryMonth

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"Reading together, my students and I engage in conversations that expose assumptions, explore curiosities, highlight diversity, and destabilize the notion of a single interpretation." Kimberly Bauser McBrien. The ebook is $5 today when you use code WHM1. #WomensHistoryMonth buff.ly/c4s2BrP

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"If a maiden should willingly give herself to a man, the man shall so swear; they shall have no claim to his wife; the fornicator shall pay 'triple' the silver as the value of the maiden." Middle Assyrian Laws. Get the ebook for $5 today with code WHM1. #WomensHistoryMonth buff.ly/VmhqS7y

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"The text might trigger posttraumatic stress in a student.... How might instructors support such students in a way that minimizes psychological harm? " Kathleen Gallagher Elkins. Get the ebook for $5 through 9 March with code WHM1. buff.ly/An55lI5 #WomensHistoryMonth

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"Of the Cave 4 copies of the Rule, 4QSd preserves the largest individual fragments, though its component features are small." Sarianna Metso. Get the ebook for $5 through 9 March with code WHM1 #WomensHistoryMonth buff.ly/y3XrN1q

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"Wives of a man, or [widows], or any [Assyrian] women who go out into the main thoroughfare [shall not have] their heads [bare]." Middle Assyrian Laws, Martha T. Roth. Get the ebook for $5 with code WHM1 through 9 March buff.ly/VmhqS7y #WomensHistoryMonth

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"The scribal practice exhibited in the scrolls demonstrates that...occasionally some scribes developed the text they were copying in creative ways." Sarianna Metso. Get the ebook for $5 through 9 March with code WHM1 #WomensHistoryMonth buff.ly/y3XrN1q

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"The principal class of persons considered in the Laws of Ur-Namma is the free person...which includes the wife...the first-ranking wife...the native-born woman...and the widow." Martha T. Roth.The ebook is $5 with code WHM1 through 9 Mar. buff.ly/VmhqS7y #WomensHistoryMonth

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"In Gender and Biblical Interpretation...we start with our assumptions about whether sexual identity and gender expression are biologically or socially determined." Jocelyn McWhirter. Get the ebook for $5 through 9 March with code WHM1. buff.ly/c4s2BrP #WomensHistoryMonth

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Get the ebook of Teaching the Bible with Undergraduates edited by Jocelyn McWhirter and Sylvie T. Raquel for $5 through 9 March when you use code WHM1. buff.ly/c4s2BrP #WomensHistoryMonth

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Get the ebook of The Community Rule: A Critical Edition with Translation by Sarianna Metso for $5 when you use code WHM1 between now and 9 March buff.ly/y3XrN1q #WomensHistoryMonth

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Martha T. Roth's Law Collections from Mesopotamia and Asia Minor is now available as an ebook from SBL Press! Get the ebook for $5 now through 9 March when you use code WHM1 at checkout. buff.ly/VmhqS7y #WomensHistoryMonth

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"The reader follows the life of an antihero, a trickster, a picaro, rather than a hero who succeeds in achieving what he needs or truly desires." Grammatiki A. Karla Life of Aesop the Philosopher by Grammatiki A. Karla and David Konstan,. #WomensHistoryMonth buff.ly/60MArTj

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"This volume will be important to scholars and students working on biblical and prophetic metaphors."—Brad E. Kelle, Religious Studies Review. Check out Plant Metaphors in Prophetic Condemnations of Israel and Judah by Tina M. Sherman buff.ly/ayfRB5Z #WomensHistoryMonth

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"Due to their importance in the Christian tradition and their normative character, these texts have shaped the life, social condition, and religious practice of women over centuries." Korinna Zamfir and Uta Poplutz buff.ly/i4OWRaU #WomensHistoryMonth

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"I explore racial/ethnic concepts as a means of establishing the Canaanite mother, an ethnic outsider, as a typology for black mothers in the United States." Stephanie Buckhanon Crowder buff.ly/3GIAQ1n #BlackHistoryMonth

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"Like the wave of 'discoverers' that come to the islands, the Bible enters with the presumptions of dominant power. And like the various transplanted & displaced people who take root in the islands, the Bible requires adjustments & revisions." Steed Vernyl Davidson buff.ly/439fLfk #BlackHistoryMonth

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"White supremacy is the foundational ideology that anchors all other ideologies (economic, political, and so forth) in the sociohistorical milieu of the U.S. since its founding." Evelyn L. Parker https://buff.ly/3Mbecoh #BlackHistoryMonth

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"Whereas Euro-Americans view the American myth as being realized, the African American’s narration of nation provokes and challenges America"–Lynne St. Clair Darden Get the ebook for $5 through 23 Feb with code BHM2 #BlackHistoryMonth buff.ly/34MzSDJ

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"As life-affirming moral agents we have a responsibility to study the ideological hegemony of the past so that we do not remain doomed to the recurring cyclical patterns" Katie Geneva Cannon. Get the ebook of Semeia 47 for $5 with code BHM2 through 23 Feb. buff.ly/41p8cjd #BlackHistoryMonth

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Get the ebook of Yet with a Steady Beat: Contemporary U.S. Afrocentric Biblical Interpretation edited by Randall C. Bailey for $5 now through 23 Feb. when you use code BHM2 at checkout. buff.ly/3ufgdqX #BlackHistoryMonth

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Get the ebook of Scripturalizing Revelation: An African American Postcolonial Reading of Empire by Lynne St. Clair Darden for $5 through 23 Feb when you use code BHM2 at checkout. #BlackHistoryMonth buff.ly/34MzSDJ

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Semeia 47: Interpretation for Liberation edited by Katie Geneva Cannon is available as an ebook for the first time from SBL Press! Now through 23 Feb. you can get the ebook for $5 when you use code BHM2. buff.ly/41p8cjd #BlackHistoryMonth

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"This volume...should be required reading for all interested in advancing the work of our discipline and professional guild now and in the future." Hugh R. Page, RBL buff.ly/3PvStca #BlackHistoryMonth

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"As womanists teach, we must read darkness intersectionally. Race and gender and class oppression, taken collectively, cause black women’s trauma." Margaret Aymer #blkaarsbl #BlackScholarsMatter #BlackHistoryMonth buff.ly/3h7JR9J

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"President James Madison likened slavery to America’s 'original sin,' but African Americans would long be made to sow the garden’s seed without a taste of free will’s fruits."Read Richard Newton's “The African American Bible” in JBL 136.1 (2017): 221–28 #BlackHistoryMonth buff.ly/3XyygUJ

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"My narrative is not to be viewed as normative or exceptional. I seek to show how race, gender, sexuality, and context impacted the development of myself and (most probably?) other Black biblical scholars." –Randall C. Bailey buff.ly/3koZVsJ #BlackHistoryMonth

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BibleOdyssey.org is now on Bluesky! Follow @bibleodyssey.bsky.social for free resources for teaching and study.

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"If one is reading the Bible to critically engage the biblical text & seek insights into modern ecological problems, Jeremiah provides an ancient reflection on the calamities of land degradation, both physically & metaphorically." Jaime L. Waters buff.ly/3Vew3iy #BlackHistoryMonth #citeblackwomen

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"To be a Black female academic, navigating the double jeopardy of race and gender, means...to think, write, and teach under a cloud of suspicion that says you’re not good enough, not serious enough, not smart enough."–Renita J. Weems buff.ly/3koZVsJ #BlackHistoryMonth #BlackScholarsMatter

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"it cannot be said that all lives matter in the Bible.... While racism does not exist in the Hebrew Scriptures, there is vicious ethnic conflict that can function as an analog for contemporary race-based conflict." Wilda C. Gafney #BlackHistoryMonth buff.ly/3FD95tH @wilgafney.bsky.social

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"In recognizing the struggle of his own people, Du Bois perceptively noticed that, by electrifying the color line with the charge of virulent racism, white Americans had also, ironically, Othered themselves." Read Brian K. Blount's Presidential Address. buff.ly/3H2kind

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"Cultural rhetoric is not created in a vacuum separate from the religious traditions, social arrangements, and the lived experiences of its devotees." Shively T. J Smith. Today the ebook is $5 with code BHM1 buff.ly/42hVO3k #BlackHistoryMonth

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"I...knew that there were not many African Americans who were members of the SBL. Even today, with just over 8,000 members, only about 4% of US-born members are of African descent."--Cheryl B. Anderson. Get the ebook for $5 with code BHM1 through 9 Feb. buff.ly/49euIMM #BlackHistoryMonth

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"We stand on the shoulders of womanist theologians, ethicists, religious scholars, cultural critics...who dared to read their way through the struggle," Byron & Lovelace. The ebook of Womanist Interpretations of the Bible is $5 with code BHM1 through 9 Feb buff.ly/3h7JR9J

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"Like 2 Peter, nineteenth-century African American women’s writings reflect rhetorical strategy, cultural commitments, and social responses to their contexts." Shively T. J. Smith. The ebook is $5 through 9 Feb using code BHM1 buff.ly/42hVO3k #BlackHistoryMonth

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The ebook of Interpreting 2 Peter through African American Women's Moral Writings by Shively T. J. Smith is $5 with code BHM1 through 9 Feb. buff.ly/42hVO3k #BlackHistoryMonth

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Get the ebook of Womanist Interpretations of the Bible edited by Gay L. Byron and Vanessa Lovelace for $5 with code BHM1 through 9 Feb. buff.ly/3HaDq04 #BlackHistoryMonth @womanisthbscholar.bsky.social

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"Critical race theory has shown us that in situations of oppression people often belong to multiple oppressed groups & also that systems of oppression often reinforce each other." Randall C. Bailey, They Were All Together in One Place? buff.ly/3Mbecoh #BlackHistoryMonth

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Demetrius K. Williams writes, "African American Christians in general have read Acts 2...as essential for addressing arguments of inferiority, human unity, racism, and segregation." buff.ly/3GWB4C7 #BlackHistoryMonth

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“It is imperative that we recognize...those few black pioneers of the decades before the initiatives of Hoyt and Waters- the likes of Leon Edward Wright; Charles B. Copher; G. Murray Branch; & Joseph A. Johnson.” Read Vincent L. Wimbush's Presidential Address. buff.ly/3DwFiSb #BlackHistoryMonth

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