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Luke: Feminist Perspectives

D’Angelo, Mary Rose. ‘The ANHP Question in Luke-Acts’. In A Feminist Companion to Luke, edited by Amy-Jill Levine and Marianne Blickenstaff, 44–69. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic, 2002.

———. ‘Women in Luke-Acts: A Redactional View’. Journal of Biblical Literature 109, no. 3 (1990) 441–61.

De Boer, Esther A. ‘The Lukan Mary Magdalene and the Other Women Following Jesus’. In A Feminist Companion to Luke, edited by Amy-Jill Levine and Marianne Blickenstaff, 140–60. London: Sheffield Academic, 2002.

Hylen, Susan E. Women in the New Testament World. Essentials of Biblical Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019.

Kahl, Brigitte. ‘Reading Luke Against Luke: Non-Uniformity of Text, Hermeneutics of Conspiracy and the “Scriptural Principle” in Luke 1’. In A Feminist Companion to Luke, edited by Amy-Jill Levine, 70–88. London: Sheffield Academic, 2002.

Karris, Robert J. ‘Women and Discipleship in Luke’. In A Feminist Companion to Luke, edited by Amy-Jill Levine and Marianne Blickenstaff. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic, 2002.

Matthews, Shelly, and Barbara E. Reid. Luke 1–9. Vol. 43a. Wisdom Commentary. Collegeville, Minnesota: Liturgical, 2021.

Matthews, Shelly, and Barbara E. Reid. Luke 10–24. Vol. 43b. Wisdom Commentary. Collegeville, Minnesota: Liturgical, 2021.

Myers, Alicia D. An Introduction to the Gospels and Acts. Essentials of Biblical Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022.

Reid, Barbara E. ‘”Do You See This Woman?” A Liberative Look at Luke 7:36–50 and Strategies for Reading Other Lukan Stories against the Grain’. In A Feminist Companion to Luke, edited by Amy-Jill Levine and Marianne Blickenstaff, 106–20. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic, 2002.

Robbins, Vernon K. ‘Luke-Acts: A Mixed Population Seeks a Home in the Roman Empire’. In Images of Empire, edited by Loveday Alexander, 202–21. Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement Series 122. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic, 1991.

Seim, Turid Karlsen. ‘The Virgin Mother: Mary and Ascetic Discipleship in Luke’. In A Feminist Companion to Luke, edited by Amy-Jill Levine and Marianne Blickenstaff, 89–105. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic, 2002.

Wilson, Brittany. Unmanly Men: Refigurations of Masculinity in Luke-Acts. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015.

Acts: Feminist Perspectives

Ascough, R. S. Lydia: Paul’s Cosmopolitan Hostess. Paul’s Social Network: Brothers and Sisters in Faith. Collegeville, Minnesota: Liturgical, 2009.

Calpino, Teresa J. ‘Crafting Gender in Acts: Tabitha and Lydia’. In Acts of the Apostles, edited by Linda M. Maloney and Ivoni Richter Reimer, 45:222–26. Wisdom Commentary. Collegeville, Minnesota: Liturgical, 2022.

D’Angelo, Mary Rose. ‘The ANHP Question in Luke-Acts’. In A Feminist Companion to Luke, edited by Amy-Jill Levine and Marianne Blickenstaff, 44–69. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic, 2002.

———. ‘Women in Luke-Acts: A Redactional View’. Journal of Biblical Literature 109, no. 3 (1990) 441–61.

Hylen, Susan E. Women in the New Testament World. Essentials of Biblical Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019.

Lents, Hannah. ‘Third Space in Paul’s Areopagus Speech’. In Acts of the Apostles, edited by Linda M. Maloney and Ivoni Richter Reimer, 45:247–53. Wisdom Commentary. Collegeville, Minnesota: Liturgical, 2022.

Maloney, Linda M., and Ivoni Richter Reimer. Acts of the Apostles. Vol. 45. Wisdom Commentary. Collegeville, Minnesota: Liturgical, 2022.

Matthews, Shelly. The Acts of the Apostles: Taming the Tongues of Fire. T&T Clark Study Guide to the New Testament. London: T&T Clark, 2017.

Myers, Alicia D. An Introduction to the Gospels and Acts. Essentials of Biblical Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022.

Reimer, Ivoni Richter. Women in the Acts of the Apostles. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1995.

Wilson, Brittany. Unmanly Men: Refigurations of Masculinity in Luke-Acts. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015.