Book Note | Rewriting Masculinity

"Gideon thanks God for the Miracle of the Dew", painting by Maarten van Heemskerck (Musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg)

Kelly Murphy’s Rewriting Masculinity: Gideon, Men, and Might (OUP 2019)offers a fascinating journey through the multiple and layered maculinities of the biblical character Gideon (Judges 6-8), while providing a methodological model for biblical masculinity studies to emulate.

June 6, 2018

Teaching Tactic: Critical Review of a Bible Film or Novel

by Rhiannon Graybill in Articles

Charlton Heston in The Ten Commandments (1956).

“The trickiest part of the review assignment is getting students to understand what it means to perform expertise as a biblical scholar.”