Bernadette Brooten

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| education = University of Portland
Harvard University

| workplaces = Claremont Graduate University
University of Tübingen
Harvard Divinity School
Brandeis University

| discipline = Religious scholar

| main_interests = New Testament, feminism

| awards = MacArthur Fellowship

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Bernadette J. Brooten is an American religious scholar and Kraft-Hiatt Professor of Christian Studies at Brandeis University.{{cite news |last1=Barlow |first1=Rich |title=Caucus On Religion Thumbs The Past |work=The Boston Globe |date=August 6, 2005 |page=B2 |department=City & Region}}

Biography

Brooten graduated from University of Portland with a B.A., and Harvard University with a Ph.D. in 1982.{{cite journal |last1=Standhartinger |first1=Angela |title=The Influence and Impact of Bernadette Brooten Not Only on LGBTIQ+ People in Germany |journal=Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion |date=September 2022 |volume=38 |issue=2 |pages=183–189 |doi=10.2979/jfemistudreli.38.2.16|s2cid=253082036 }} Her doctoral thesis was entitled Inscriptional Evidence for Women as Leaders in the Ancient Synagogue.{{Cite thesis|author=Brooten, Bernadette J.|date=1982|publisher=Harvard University|degree=PhD |title= Inscriptional Evidence for Women as Leaders in the Ancient Synagogue |url=https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990010473440203941/catalog|access-date=2024-02-29|language=en}} Brooten studied theology at the University of Tübingen and at Hebrew University.{{cite news |last1=Moore |first1=Lillian |title=Idahoan Remembers Guns In Lebanon |work=Spokane Daily Chronicle |date=March 24, 1978 |page=3}} She taught at the Claremont Graduate School,{{cite news |last1=Dart |first1=John |title=Ancient Synagogue Studies Question Status of Women |work=Los Angeles Times |date=March 28, 1981 |page=31}} the University of Tübingen, Harvard Divinity School,{{cite news |last1=Dart |first1=John |title=Apostle's Sexuality Debated |work=The Charlotte Observer |agency=Los Angeles Times |date=February 2, 1991 |page=2A}} and the University of Oslo with a 1998 Fulbright Fellowship.

She served on the Advisory Committee for the Women's Studies in Religion Program at Harvard Divinity School from 1997 to 2008.{{cite web |last1=Carll |first1=Johanna |title=Papers of Bernadette J. Brooten, 1966-1985 |url=https://hollisarchives.lib.harvard.edu/repositories/8/resources/13953 |website=Harvard Library |date=December 2023}} She is also a linguist with eight languages besides English to her credit.

Brooten is the founder and director of the Feminist Sexual Ethics Project at Brandeis.{{cite news |last1=Ramos |first1=Nestor |title=Patriots Owner Silent Amid Questions |work=The Boston Globe |date=February 24, 2019 |pages=B1; B6}}

Her work is located primarily within the New Testament, post-biblical Judaism, early literature and history, women and religion, and feminist sexual ethics (with a particular focus on law and sexuality).

She is currently{{as of?|date=February 2024}} writing a book on early Christian women who were enslaved or who owned enslaved laborers.{{cn|date=March 2024}}

Awards

1998 MacArthur Fellows Program{{cite news |title=Poets, Advocates and Other Gensiuses |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-albuquerque-tribune-brooten/143127362/ |work=The Albuquerque Tribune |date=June 4, 1998 |page=B6}}
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship

Selected works

"The modern face of slavery", The Boston Globe, November 19, 2006{{cite web |last1=Brooten |first1=Bernadette |title=The Modern Face Of Slavery |url=http://archive.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2006/11/19/the_modern_face_of_slavery/ |website=Boston.com |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201211054947/http://archive.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2006/11/19/the_modern_face_of_slavery/ |archive-date=December 11, 2020 |department=Op-Ed |date=November 19, 2006}}
Beyond Slavery: Overcoming Its Religious and Sexual Legacies, Palgrave-MacMillan, 2010, {{ISBN|978-0-230-10017-6}}
Women Leaders in The Ancient Synagogue: Inscriptional Evidence and Background Issues, Scholars Press, 1982, {{ISBN|978-0-89130-587-3}}
Love Between Women: Early Christian Responses to Female Homoeroticism, University of Chicago Press, 1996, {{ISBN|978-0-226-07592-1}}{{cite book |last1=Brooten |first1=Bernadette J. |title=Love Between Women: Early Christian Responses to Female Homoeroticism|date=1 November 1998 |publisher=University of Chicago Press |isbn=978-0-226-07592-1 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7846YJwlUV0C |language=en}}
"Female Homoeroticism", Immaculate & powerful: the female in sacred image and social reality, Editors Clarissa W. Atkinson, Constance H. Buchanan, Margaret Ruth Miles, Beacon Press, 1985, {{ISBN|978-0-8070-1004-4}}
"Acts of the Apostles", Women priests: a Catholic commentary on the Vatican declaration, Editors Leonard J. Swidler, Arlene Swidler, Paulist Press, 1977, {{ISBN|978-0-8091-2062-8}}
Frauen in der Männerkirche, Editors Bernadette Brooten, Norbert Greinacher, Kaiser, 1982, {{ISBN|978-3-459-01424-8}}

Bernadette Brooten

Biography

Awards

Selected works

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