Seminar Session Resources

“Home Sweet Home: Ancient Israelite Households in Context”

• Matthew J.M. Coomber, ed. “Women and Economics in Ancient Israel and Judah.” Cascade Companion on the Bible and Economics, vol.1. Cascade Books, 2023.
• Emanuel Pfoh, editor. “The Anthropology of Food in the Hebrew Bible.” T&T Clark Handbook of Anthropology and the Hebrew Bible. Bloomsbury, 2023.
• Cynthia Shafer-Elliott, Timothy Frank, and Oded Borowski. “The Daily Bread at Tell Halif: An Overview of Food Production and Consumption.” Pages 195-203 in No Place Like Home: Ancient Near Eastern Houses and Households. Ancient Near Eastern Archaeology, 9. Archaeopress, 2022.
• Cynthia Shafer-Elliott. “The Reality of Gender in the Ancient Israelite Household.” Pages 12-21 in A Gender Study: The Real Lives of Women and Men in the Bible series. Cascade Books, 2022.

“Life in the Roman Army”

• John Wilkes. The Roman Army. Cambridge University Press, 1972.
• Paul L. Maier. Pontius Pilate. Kregal Publications, 1968.
• Walter A Elwell and Robert W. Yarbrough, eds. Readings from the First-Century World. Baker Book House, 1998.
• G. A. Williamson, translator. Josephus: The Jewish War. Penguin Books, 1959.

“Hosting a Rabbi: A Lesson in Discipleship from Mary and Martha”

• Richard Buckram. Gospel Women: Studies of the Named Women in the Gospels. Eerdmans, 2002.
• Dorothy A. Lee. The Ministry of Women in the New Testament: Reclaiming the Biblical Vision for Church Leadership. Baker Academic, 2021.