“Women in Scriptures”
Syllabus
Spring 2016
Instructor: Professor Faegheh Shirazi
Office Location: Calhoun Hall # 502
Email address: [email protected]
Office Hours: T & TH 9:0-10:0 AM, and 12:30-1:0 PM
January
Tu. 19
Introduction to the course
Carol P. Weingarten, Lester Luborsky,Tomasz Andrusyna, and et al
“Relationships Between God and People: An Interpersonal Study of
Scriptures.”
The International Journal for the Psychology of Religion, 24 (2014), pp. 133–150,
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Please make sure that you have saved this link for your personal use, as many of the
terms may be unfamiliar to you. Make sure you understand the terms in relation to the
texts, and articles that we are study here on Zoroastrianism
http://www.avesta.org/zglos.html GLOSSARY and Standardized spelling of Zoroastrian
terms
Overview – Historical Evidence
Ed. Suad Joseph. Vol. 2: Fmily, Law and Politics. Leiden, Brill. (2005) pp. 800804
Gender and Religion: Gender and Zoroastrians.
Ed. Lindsay Jones. Vol. 5. 2nd ed. Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA. (2007) pp.
3371-3375
Parsis
Ed. Lindsay Jones. Vol. 10. 2nd ed. Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA. (2005) pp.
6997-7001
Widengren, G.
“Primordial Man and Prostitute: A Zervanite Motif in the Sassanid Avesta.”
Studies in mysticism and religion presented to Gershom G Scholem on his 70th
birthday. Melanges Scholem , Jerusalem. (1967) pp. 337-352
Choksy, Jamsheed K
“WOMEN IN THE ZOROASTRIAN BOOK OF PRIMAL CREATION:
IMAGES AND FUNCTIONS WITHIN A RELIGIOUS TRADITION.”
Mankind Quarterly. Fall, 1988; 29, 1. Pp.73-82
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Bruce Lincoln. H
“Human Unity and Diversity in Zoroastrian Mythology.” History of Religions.
Vol. 50, No.1 (2005). Pp.7-20
Tu.26
Discuss Jamsheed K. Choksy’s text– turn in a book report summary 3-5 pages only.
Your summary should include references cited correctly, speaking directly to the
important issues raised by the author – give your personal opinion and evaluation of
this text.
Start to read Jean Kellens text.
Th.28
Thillayvel Naidoo
“Human Rights: A Zoroastrian Perspective.” Journal for the Study of Religion.
(2010). Pp. 27-36
Yuhan Sohrab-Dinshaw Vevaina
“Enumerating the Den “: Textual Taxonomies, Cosmological Deixis, and
Numerological Speculations in Zoroastriainism.” History of Religions. Vol. 50.
No. 2 (November 2010) pp. 111-143
Katayun H. Gould
“Outside The Discipline, Inside The Experience: Women In Zoroastrianism.”
In: Sharma, Arvind.; Religion and Women. Pp.139-182
Katayun H. Gould
“Zarathushti, Zoroastrian, Parsi: Women in Zarathushti Din,
Zoroastrianism.” Women in Indian religions/ edited by Arvind Sharma.(2002),
pp.134-162
Feb.
Tu. 2
Discussing Jean Kellens text. Turn in a book report summary 3-5 pages only. Your
summary should include references cited correctly, speaking directly to the
important issues raised by the author – give your personal opinion and evaluation of
this text.
Start reading Gillian Towler Mehta text
Th. 4** I will be out of town to present a lecture- Professor Kamran Aghaei would take
this class for me
Shai Secunda
“The Fractious Eye: On the Evil Eye of Menstruants in Zoroastrian
Tradition.” NVMEN 61 (2014) 83-108
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William L. Hanaway, Jr. Author(s)
“Anāhitā and Alexander.” Journal of the American Oriental Society. Vol. 102,
No. 2 (Apr. - Jun., 1982), pp. 285-295
Reuven Kiperwasser and Serge Ruzer
“Zoroastrian Proselytes in Rabbinic and Syriac Christian Narratives:
Orality-Related Markers of Cultural Identity.” History of Religions. Vol. 51.
No. 3 (Feb. 2012) pp. 197-218
F.Vahman
“A Beautiful Girl.” Papers in honour of Professor Mary Boyce. (1985), pp. 665673
Tu.9
Discussing Gillian Towler Mehta’s text. Turn in a book report summary 3-5 pages
only. Your summary should include references cited correctly, speaking directly to
the important issues raised by the author – give your personal opinion and
evaluation of this text.
Start reading Elyse Goldstein Text.
“Torat Hayyim: The Status of Women in the Thought of Eliezer Berkovits.”
Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies. Vol. 31.
Number 4, (Summer 2013), pp. 4-15
Th.11
Reuven Kiperwasser and Serge Ruzer
“Zoroastrian Proselytes in Rabbinic and Syriac Christian Narratives:
Orality-Related Markers of Cultural Identity.” History of Religions. Vol. 51.
No. 3 (Feb. 2012) pp. 197-218
Torat Hayyim: The Status of Women in the Thought of Eliezer Berkovits.”
Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies. Vol. 31.
Number 4, (Summer 2013), pp. 4-15
Shai Secunda
“Talmudic Text and Iranian Context: On the Development of Two Talmudic
Narratives.” Association for Jewish Studies. Vol. 33. No.1. (2009), pp. 45-69
Inbal Cicurel & Rachel Sharaby
“Women in the Menstruation Huts: variations in preserving purification
customs among Ethiopian immigrants.”
Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion. Vol. 23. No.2.(Fall 2007), pp. 69-84
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Tu.16
Discussing Elyse Goldstein text. Turn in a book report summary 3-5 pages only.
Your summary should include references cited correctly, speaking directly to the
important issues raised by the author – give your personal opinion and evaluation of
this text.
Start reading Ellen Frankel text.
Th.18
Susannah Heschel
“Jewish Feminism and Women’s Identity.” Women & Therapy. Vol. 10. Issue
4. (1991). Pp. 31-39
David E.S. Stein
“On Beyond Gender: Representation on God in the Torah and in Three
Recent Renditions into English.” NASHIM: A Journal of Jewish Women’s
Studies and Gender Issues. 15 (2009), pp. 108-137
Saba Soomekh
“Iranian Jewish Women: Domesticating Religion and Appropriating
Zoroastrian Religion in Ritual Life.” Nashim: A Journal of Jewish Women’s
Studies and Gender Issues. 18 (2009) Pp.13- 38
“Torat Hayyim: The Status of Women in the Thought of Eliezer Berkovits.”
Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies. Vol. 31.
Number 4, (Summer 2013), pp. 4-15
Tu.23
Elizabeth Shanks Alexander
“Women’s Exemption from Shema and Tefillin and How These Rituals
Came to be Viewed as Torah Study.”
Journal for the Study of Judaism 42 (2011), pp. 531-579
Christopher R. Hutson
“Saved through Childbearing” The Jewish Context of » Timothy 2:15”
NOVUM TESTAMENTUM 56 (2014), PP. 3 92-410
Jennifer A. Glancy
The Sexual Use of Slaves: A Response to Kyle Harper on Jewish and
Christian Porneia.” Journal of Biblical Literature 134, no. 1 (2015), pp. 215-229
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Jessica Ann Rosenberg
“A WOMAN ON THE BIMAH MEANS IGNORANT
MEN”: WOMEN’S TORAH READING AND MODERN ORTHODOX
IDENTITY.” Nashim: A Journal of Jewish Women’s Studies and Gender
Issues.21 (2011), pp.88-96
Th.25
Discussing Ellen Frankel text. Turn in a book report summary 3-5 pages only.
Your summary should include references cited correctly, speaking directly to
the important issues raised by the author – give your personal opinion and
evaluation of this text.
Start reading Letty M. Russell (Editor)
March
Tu. 1
Warren Zev Harvey
“THE OBLIGATION OF TALMUD ON WOMEN ACCORDING TO
MAIMONIDES.” Tradition, 19(2), (Summer 1981), pp. 122-130
Admiel Kosman
R. JOHANAN AND RESH LAKISH: THE IMAGE OF GOD IN THE
STUDY HALL: ‘MASCULINITY’ VERSUS ‘FEMININITY.”
Ronit Irshai
“DIGNITY, HONOR, AND EQUALITY IN CONTEMPORARHALACHIC
THINKING: THE CASE OF TORAH READING BY WOMEN IN
ISRAELI MODERN ORTHODOXY.” Modern Judaism 33(3), (September
2013), pp. 332-356
Eva Anagnostou-Laoutides
“DANCING DOGS AND BARKING WOMEN.” The Classical Quarterly.
Volume 65, Issue 01 (May 2015), pp 153 – 166
Th. 3
Mid Term Papers are Due – Each student would present a brief summary of her/his
work to the class. Please keep your presentation so there would be enough time for every
one.
Tu.8
Discussing Letty M. Russell text. Turn in a book report summary 3-5 pages only.
Your summary should include references cited correctly, speaking directly to the
important issues raised by the author – give your personal opinion and evaluation of
this text.
Start reading Mary Ann Getty-Sullivan
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Th.10
Elite Ben-Yosef
“Literacy and Power: The Shiyour as a site Subordination and
Empowerment for Women.” JFSR 27.1 (2011), pp. 53-74
Jeffrey K. Salkin
“Dinah, The Torah’s Forgotten Woman.” Judaism (2001), Pp.284-289
Sue Jackson
“ God of Our Fathers: Feminism and Judaism-A contradiction in Terms?”
Women’s Studies International Forum. Vol. 20. No,1. (1997) Pp.129-143
Judith Plaskow and Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza
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David Golinkin
“THE PARTICIPATION OF JEWISH WOMEN IN
PUBLIC RITUALS AND TORAH STUDY 1845–2010.” NASHIM: A Journal
of Jewish Women’s Studies and Gender Issues. Number 21, (Spring 2011), pp. 4666
Discussing Mary Ann Getty-Sullivan. Turn in a book report summary 3-5 pages
only. Your summary should include references cited correctly, speaking directly to
the important issues raised by the author – give your personal opinion and
evaluation of this text.
Start reading Asma Barlas text
Tu.15- No Class Spring Break
Th.17 –No Class Spring Break
Tu. 22**
Discussing Mary Ann Getty-Sullivan. Turn in a book report summary 3-5 pages
only. Your summary should include references cited correctly, speaking directly to
the important issues raised by the author – give your personal opinion and
evaluation of this text.
Start reading Asma Barlas text.
Th. 24
(Multiple Authors)
“ Roundtable Discussion: Feminist Biblical Studies.” Journal of Feminist
Studies in Religion. Vol. 25. Number 2. (Fall 2009). Pp.93-143
Loveday Alexande
“WOMEN AS LEADERS IN THE NEW TESTAMENT.”
Modern Believing. January 1, (2013), pp.14- 22
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BRYAN NASH
“Pont of View and the Women’s Silence: A Reading of Mark 16:1-8.”
Restoration Quarterly. January 1, (2015), pp.225-232
Victoria Phillips
“The Other Instance of Women’s Silence in the Gospel of Mark.” Biblical
World. January 1, (2001), pp. 129-142
Tu. 29
MOYER HUBBARD
“KEPT SAFE THROUGH CHILDBEARING: MATERNAL
MORTALITYJUSTIFICATION BY FAITH, AND THE SOCIAL SETTING OF 1
TIMOTHY 2:15.” Evangelical Theological Society. Vol. 55. No.4 (December 1,
2012), pp. 743-762
Roberto Sánchez
“The Black Virgin: Santa Eflgenia, Popular Religion, and the African
Diaspora in Peru.” Church History. 81:3 (September 2012), pp. 631-655
PAUL D. WEGNER
“HOW MANY VIRGIN BIRTHS ARE IN THE BIBLE? (ISAIAH 7:14): A
PROPHETIC PATTERN APPROACH.” Journal of the Evangelical
Theological Society. Vol. 54. No.3 (September 2011), pp. 467-484
Clarice J. Martin
Womanist Interpretations of the New Testament: The Quest for Holistic and
Inclusive Translation and Interpretation. Journal of Feminist Studies in
Religion, Vol. 6, No. 2 (Fall, 1990), pp. 41-61
Th. 31
Ira D. Mangililo
“When Rahab and Indonesian Christian Women Meet in the Third Space.”
Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion, Vol. 31, No. 1 (Spring 2015), pp. 45-64
“What comes into a Woman and What Comes Out of a Woman: Feminist
Textual Intervention and Mark 7:14-23.” Journal of Feminist Studies in
Religion. Vol. 30, No. 1 (Spring 2014), pp. 25-41
Holly Joan Toensing
Women of Sodom and Gomorrah: Collateral Damage in the War against
Homosexuality? Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion, Vol. 21, No. 2 (Fall,
2005), pp. 61-74
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April
Tu. 5
Discussing Asma Barlas text. Turn in a book report summary 3-5 pages only. Your
summary should include references cited correctly, speaking directly to the
important issues raised by the author – give your personal opinion and evaluation of
this text.
Start reading Nimat Hafez Barazangi
Th. 7
Katherine B. Low
“The Sexual Abuse of Lot's Daughters: Reconceptualizing Kinship for the
Sake of Our Daughters.”
Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion, Vol. 26, No. 2 (Fall 2010), pp. 37-54
Randa Elbih
“Teaching about Islam and Muslims While Countering Cultural
Misrepresentations.” Social Studies. Vol.106, No. 3. (2015), pp.112-116
Edith Szanto
“Sayyida Zaynab in the State of Exception: Shi`i Sainthood as ‘Qualified Life’
In Contemporary Syria.”
International Journal of Middle East Studies. 44 (2012), pp. 285-299
Tu. 12**
Abdulai Abukari
“Education of Women in Islam: A Critical Islamic Interpretation of the
Quran.” Religious Education, The official journal of the Religious Education
Association. 109:1, (2014), pp. 4-23
Irene Oh
“MOTHERHOOD IN CHRISTIANITY AND ISLAM Critiques, Realities,
and Possibilities.” Journal of Religious Ethics. Vol. 38, N0.4 (2010), pp. 638-653
Kristen M. Yoder Wesselhoeft
“Making Muslim Minds: Question and Answer as a Genre of Moral
Reasoning in an Urban French Mosque.”
Journal of the American Academy of Religion. Vo.78, No.3, (September 2010),
pp.790-823
Th. 14
Klas Borell
“When Is the Time to Hate? A Research Review on the Impact of Dramatic
Events on Islamophobia and Islamophobic Hate Crimes in Europe.” Islam
and Christian-Muslim Relations.(2015), pp. 1-13
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Anna Piela
‘“Women are Believers in Their Own Right ”: One Muslim Woman’s
Challenge to Dominant Discourses Shaping Gender Relations in Islam.”’
Muslim World. (July 1, 2013), pp. 389-403
Aitemad Muhanna
“WOMEN’S MORAL AGENCY AND THE POLITICS OF RELIGION IN
THE GAZA STRIP.” Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion. Vol.3, No.1
(January 1, 2015), pp. 3-21
Tu. 19
Fatima Seedat
“ISLAM, FEMINISM, AND ISLAMIC FEMINISM Between Inadequacy
and Inevitability.” Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion. Vol. 29, No.2 (2013),
pp. 25-45
Nuraan Davids
“Are Muslim women in need of Islamic feminism? In
consideration of a re-imagined Islamic educational discourse.” British Journal
of Religious Education. Vol. 37, No. 3, (2015), pp. 311–325
Sa’diyya sheikh
“Feminism, Epistemolegy and, Experience: Critically (En)gendering the
study of Islam.” Journal of Islamic Studies. Vol. 33, (2013), pp.14-47
Th. 21
Discussing Nimat Hafez Barazangi text. Turn in a book report summary 3-5 pages
only. Your summary should include references cited correctly, speaking directly to
the important issues raised by the author – give your personal opinion and
evaluation of this text.
Start working on your final paper.
Tu. 26
Nina Hoel, and Sa’diyya Shaikh
“Sexing Islamic Theology: Theorising Women’s Experiece and Geder
Through `abd-Allah and Khalifa.” Journal for Islamic Studies. Vol.33, (2013),
pp.127-150
Md. Mahmudul Hasan
Feminism as Islamophobia: A review of misogyny charges against Islam.
Intellectual Discourse. Vol.20, No.1 (2012), pp. 55-78
Ruth Roded
“Recreating Fatima,Aisha, and MarginalizedWomen
In the Early Years of lslam: Assia Djebar’s Far from Medina (1991).”
Hawwa, Journal of Women in the Middle East. 6 (2008), pp. 225-253
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Th. 28
Ruth Roded
“Muslim Women Reelaim the Life-Story of the Prophet: A’isha (Abd alRahmän, Assia Djebar, and Nadia Yassine.” Muslim World. Vol. 103. (July
2013), pp. 334-346
Ruqayya Khan
‘“Did a Woman Edit the Qur’anø? Hafa and her Famed “Codex”.”’
Journal of the American Academy of Religion. Vol. 82, No.1 (March 2014), pp.
174-216
Amanullah De Sondy
“PROPHECY AND MASCULINITIES:The Case of the Qur'anic Joseph.”
Crosscurrents, Association for Religion and Intellectual Life. (December 2011),
pp. 529-539
May
Tu. 3
No Class meeting -Today is reserved for your polishing and finishing up your final
project
Th. 5
Final projects Summary presentation by students.
(your deadline is no later than 2 PM today to be considered as on time submission. Attach
your unlocked word document (not any other program or PDF) and email it as
attachment to [email protected]
Today is the Last day of our class.
Thank you for your hard work and participations.
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