Amy Kalmanofsky

Amy Kalmanofsky

Dean, List College and Kekst Graduate School; Blanche and Romie Shapiro Professor, Bible

Department: Bible, Jewish Gender and Women's Studies

Phone: (212) 678-8070

Email: amkalmanofsky@jtsa.edu

Building Room: Brush 513

Office Hours: By appointment

Biography

BA, Wesleyan University; MHL and Rabbinical Ordination, Reconstructionist Rabbinical College; MPhil and PhD, 91快播.

Dr. Amy Kalmanofsky, Blanche and Romie Shapiro Professor of Bible, is dean of Albert A. List College of Jewish Studies, 91快播鈥檚 undergraduate school, and dean of the Gershon Kekst Graduate School. As professor of Bible, she teaches courses on biblical literature, religion, and feminist interpretation of the Bible. In her writing and teaching, Dr. Kalmanofsky combines contemporary ideas and critical methods with traditional text study, teaching students to be careful, creative interpreters of Torah.

Dr. Kalmanofsky鈥檚 first book, Terror All Around: The Rhetoric of Horror in the Book of Jeremiah (T&T Clark, 2008) uses horror theory to argue that the biblical prophets constructed monsters and crafted language that worked to terrify their audience. Her book The Dangerous Sisters of the Hebrew Bible (Fortress Press, 2014) explores the biblical portrayal of sisters and sisterhoods and argues that both play a vital role in the Bible鈥檚 narrative. Her book Gender-Play in the Hebrew Bible (Routledge, 2017) examines the ways in which the Bible defies and challenges its gender norms. Her book The Power of Equivocation: Complex Readers and Readings of the Hebrew Bible (Fortress, 2022) addresses the Bible鈥檚 inherent complexity, as well as the complexity of those who seek to read the Bible critically, generously, and honestly.

Dr. Kalmanofsky also has written numerous articles examining the biblical representation of women and the roles women play in the Bible, as well as articles that consider the biblical rhetoric of violence. She serves on two editorial boards: The Journal of the Feminist Studies in Religion and the Biblical Interpretation Series.

Publications

  • 鈥淕rasping the Threshold: Family Violence in Judges 19,鈥 in The Bible and Violence (eds. Chris Greenough, Mmapula Dian Kebaneilwe, Johnathan Jodamus and Johanna Stiebert; T&T Clark/Bloomsbury, forthcoming 2023.
  • 鈥淗osea 1-3 and the Ties that Bind Us to the Marriage Metaphor,鈥 in The Oxford Handbook of the Book of Hosea (ed. Brad Kelle; Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2023).
  • 鈥淢oses and his Problematic Masculinity,鈥 Biblical Masculinities Volume 3 (ed. Ovidiu Creang膬; London and New York: T&T Clark/Bloomsbury, 2019).
  • 鈥淧oetic Violence in the Book of Jeremiah,鈥 inThe Oxford Handbook of the Book of Jeremiah(ed. Louis Stulman; Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2018).
  • 鈥淕ender and Ezekiel,鈥 inThe Oxford Handbook of the Book of Ezekiel(ed. Corrine L. Carvalho; Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2018).
  • Sacred Text and Sexual Violence, editor, Feminist Studies in Religion, forthcoming.
  • 鈥淭he Sound and the Fury: Women and Suffering in Ezekiel and Lamentations,鈥 inReading Lamentations Intertextually(New York and London: T&T Clark, forthcoming).
  • Gender-Play in the Hebrew Bible: The Ways the Bible Challenges Its Gender Norms(New York and London: Routledge, 2017).
  • 鈥淚srael鈥檚 Open Sore in the Book of Jeremiah,鈥JBL135:2 (2016), pp. 247鈥263.
  • 鈥淏ody Language: A Postmodern Interpretation of the Body in the Biblical Prophets,鈥 inThe Oxford Handbook of the Prophets(ed. Carolyn J. Sharp; Oxford University Press, 2016) pp. 548鈥568.
  • 鈥淎 Perspective on the Trends and Challenges of Biblical Studies.鈥Expositions9, no. 1 (2015), 114鈥20.
  • 鈥 鈥楢s She Did, Do to Her!鈥: Jeremiah鈥檚 OAN as Revenge Fantasies.鈥 InDeclare Ye Among the Nations: Oracles Against the Nations in Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel, edited by Else K. Holt, Hyun Chul Paul Kim, and Andrew Mein. New York and London: Bloomsbury, 2014.
  • 鈥淏are Naked: A Gender Analysis of the Naked Body in.鈥 InJeremiah Invented, edited by Carolyn J. Sharp and Else K. Holt. New York and London: Bloomsbury, 2014.
  • Dangerous Sisters of the Hebrew Bible. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2014.
  • 鈥淲omen of God: Maternal Grief and Religious Response in听补苍诲听.鈥Journal for the Study of the Old Testament36, no. 1 (September 2011): 55鈥74.
  • 鈥淭he Dangerous Sisters of Jeremiah and Ezekiel.鈥Journal of Biblical Literature130, no. 2 (Summer 2011): 299鈥312.
  • 鈥淗ow to Find Monsters in the Bible and Why It Matters.鈥Bibliana(January 2011): 22鈥27 [in Danish].
  • 鈥淭he Monstrous Feminine in the Book of Jeremiah.鈥 InJeremiah (Dis)placed: New Directions in Writing/Reading Jeremiah, edited by A. R. Pete Diamond and Louis Stulman, 190鈥208. New York and London: T&T Clark, 2011.
  • 鈥淥utside Insiders and the Future of Feminist Biblical Studies.鈥Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion25, no. 2 (Fall 2009): 129鈥33.
  • Terror All Around: The Rhetoric of Horror in the Book of Jeremiah. New York and London: Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2008.
  • The Torah: A Women鈥檚 Commentary, central commentary to; supplementary commentary to. New York: Union of Reform Judaism, 2008.
  • 鈥淚srael鈥檚 Baby: The Horror of Childbirth in the Biblical Prophets.鈥Biblical Interpretation16, no. 1 (2008): 60鈥82.
  • 鈥淭heir Heart Cried Out to God: Gender and Prayer in the Book of Lamentations.鈥 InA Question of Sex? Gender and Difference in the Hebrew Bible and Beyond, edited by Deborah W. Rooke, 53鈥65. Sheffield, UK: Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2007.

Lectures

  • “The Motif of Sacrifice in the Bible”
  • “Fatal Attractions: The Problem of Desire in the Biblical Text” 
  • “Women in Power and Powerful Women in the Bible” 
  • “Bodies and Theology in the Bible” 
  • “Is the Bible a Patriarchal Text?”

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