Author: Barbara E. Reid

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Barbara E. Reid, general editor of the Wisdom Commentary series, is a Dominican Sister of Grand Rapids, Michigan. She is the president of Catholic Theological Union and the first woman to hold the position. She has been a member of the CTU faculty since 1988 and also served as vice president and academic dean from 2009 to 2018. She holds a Ph D in biblical studies from The Catholic University of America and was also president of the Catholic Biblical Association in 2014–2015.




39 Ebooks by Barbara E. Reid

Barbara E. Reid: Abiding Word
The church’s cycle of scriptural readings for the liturgy offers believers an opportunity to immerse themselves in the word of God. It is a very real and tangible way of responding to the call of J …
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Barbara E. Reid: Abiding Word
The church’s cycle of scriptural readings for the liturgy offers believers an opportunity to immerse themselves in the word of God. It is a very real and tangible way of responding to the call of J …
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€18.99
Barbara E. Reid: Abiding Word
‘Remain in me, as I remain in you.’ Jesus’ disciples are given this command in John’s gospel, and it is a command that extends to every one of his followers, including us. We deepen this mutual i …
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Barbara E. Reid: The Gospel According to Matthew
The Gospel of Matthew carries important lessons on the formation of community and of Jesus as authoritative Teacher–lessons that helped the early Matthean population relate to both the Jewish and …
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Barbara E. Reid: Preaching the Cross of Christ
With an approach that is marked by both sound scripture scholarship and keen pastoral insight, Barbara Reid explores the ways that the saving work of Jesus has been approached in preaching. She unc …
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Barbara E. Reid: The Gospel According to Matthew, Part Two
Beginning with the Transfiguration of Jesus in chapter 17:1, the Gospel of Matthew continues to reveal through Jesus’ teachings what it means to be a disciple. This second part of the study of Matt …
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Barbara E. Reid: The Gospel According to Matthew, Part One
Standing at the start of the New Testament, the Gospel of Matthew provides a bridge from the Jewish world awaiting a Messiah to the emerging Christian world of Jesus and his followers. This Gospel …
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Barbara E. Reid: Wisdom’s Feast
Woman Wisdom in Proverbs 9 invites any who want to learn her ways to come and eat at her table—an image for the rich and satisfying teaching that she offers. In this book Barbara Reid invites …
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Barbara E. Reid & Shelly Matthews: Luke 1–9
Because there are more women in the Gospel of Luke than in any other gospel, feminists have given it much attention. In this commentary, Shelly Matthews and Barbara Reid show that feminist analysis d …
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Song-Mi Suzie Park: 2 Kings
The Second Book of Kings—a book whose very title seems to assert the prerogative of male rule—is in fact filled with fascinating female characters as well as issues related to gender. In this comment …
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Denise Dombkowski Hopkins: Psalms, Books 2–3
Many readers are convinced that the Psalms are hopelessly “masculine, ” especially given that seventy-three of the 150 psalms begin with headings linking them to King David. In this volume, Denise …
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Nancy L. deClaissé-Walford: Psalms, Books 4–5
2021 Catholic Media Association Award second place award in academic studies In this close reading of Psalms 90–150, Nancy L. de Claissé-Walford discovers meanings in the Psalms that were “there all …
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Lisa M. Wolfe: Qoheleth (Ecclesiastes)
2021 Catholic Media Association Award third place award in academic studies Qoheleth, also called Ecclesiastes, has been bad news for women throughout history. In this commentary Lisa Wolfe offer …
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Julia M. O’Brien: Micah
This volume brings gender studies to bear on Micah’s powerful rhetoric, interpreting the book within its ancient and modern contexts. Julia M. O’Brien traces resonances of Micah’s language within t …
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Stacy Davis: Haggai and Malachi
Reading Haggai and Malachi in conversation with feminist theory, rhetorical criticism, and masculinity studies reveals two communities in different degrees of crisis. The prophet Haggai successfull …
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Warren Carter: Mark
The Academy of Parish Clergy 2020 Reference Book of the Year 2020 Association of Catholic Publishers first place award in Scripture 2020 Catholic Press Association third place award for best new …
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Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza: Ephesians
Ephesians is a “mystery” text that seeks to make known the multifarious Wisdom of G*d. At its heart is the question of power. In this commentary, Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza examines the political …
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Mary Ann Beavis & HyeRan Kim-Cragg: Hebrews
Hebrews seems like unpromising material for feminist interpretation, although it is the only New Testament writing for which female authorship has been seriously posited. Mary Ann Beavis and Hye Ra …
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Barbara E. Reid & Shelly Matthews: Luke 10-24
Because there are more women in the Gospel of Luke than in any other gospel, feminists have given it much attention. In this commentary, Shelly Matthews and Barbara Reid show that feminist analysis d …
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Marie-Theres Wacker: Baruch and the Letter of Jeremiah
Baruch and the Letter of Jeremiah are among the so-called deuterocanonical books of the Bible, part of the larger Catholic biblical canon. Except for a short article in the Women’s Bible Commenta …
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Annette Bourland Huizenga: 1–2 Timothy, Titus
The author of 1 Timothy, 2 Timothy, and Titus argues in favor of a “traditional” Greco-Roman gender ideology: that because men and women are biologically different, they ought to behave differently …
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Wilda C. M. Gafney: Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah
From the Wisdom Commentary series . This volume offers a womanist and feminist analysis of the books of Nahum, Habakkuk, and Zephaniah, attending to translation and textual issues, use of power and …
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Mercedes L. García Bachmann: Judges
A woman called blessed for killing a Canaanite general; another called “Mother in Israel” for leading troops into war; several other mothers absent when their children need them; a judge, Deborah, …
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F. Scott Spencer: Song of Songs
Arguably the biggest blockbuster love song ever composed, the Song of Songs holds a unique place in Jewish and Christian canons as the “holiest” book, in the minds of some readers, and the sexiest …
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Mary L. Coloe: John 1–10
2022 Catholic Media Association honorable mention in scripture: academic studies Teaching and researching the Gospel of John for thirty years has led author Mary L. Coloe to an awareness of the impor …
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Florence Morgan Gillman & Mary Ann Beavis: 1–2 Thessalonians
When Paul wrote First Thessalonians shortly after the recipients had accepted the Gospel, many significant issues had already arisen among them. Of great concern was the social complexity, and even …
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Gina Hens-Piazza: Lamentations
Though the five poems of Lamentations undoubtedly refer to the Babylonian siege and destruction of Jerusalem in 587 BCE, the multiple voices that narrate unspeakable suffering and labor to make sen …
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Alice Ogden Bellis: Proverbs
2019 Association of Catholic Publishers Book of the Year In this volume, Alice Ogden Bellis considers the book of Proverbs as a structural whole, the sages having designed it in such a way as to ma …
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S. Tamar Kamionkowski: Leviticus
The book of Leviticus provides two different theologies related to God’s presence within ancient Israel. Leviticus 1–16 was written by an elite caste of priests (P), and Leviticus 17–26 (H) was add …
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Mary L. Coloe: John 11-21
Teaching and researching the Gospel of John for thirty years has led author Mary L. Coloe to an awareness of the importance of the wisdom literature to make sense of Johannine theology, language, and …
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Pheme Perkins & Patricia McDonald: 1–2 Peter and Jude
2023 Catholic Media Association Second Place Award, Scripture – Academic Studies Reading 1 Peter through the lens of feminist and diaspora studies keeps front and center the bodily, psychological, an …
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Elsa Tamez & Cynthia Briggs Kittredge: Philippians, Colossians, Philemon
Philippians lends itself to a political-ideological reading. To take into account that the document is a writing from prison, and to read it from a political-religious and feminist perspective usin …
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Jennifer L. Koosed & Robert Paul Seesengood: Judith
2023 Catholic Media Association First Place Award, Scripture – Academic Studies The striking scene of Judith cutting off Holofernes’s head with his own sword in his own bed has inspired the imagi …
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Linda M. Maloney & Ivoni Richter Reimer: Acts of the Apostles
2023 Catholic Media Association Third Place Award, Scripture – Academic Studies The Acts of the Apostles, the earliest work of its kind to have survived from Christian antiquity, is not “history” …
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Bárbara E. Reid: El banquete de la Sabiduría
En Proverbios 9, la Sabiduría, invita a cualquiera que quiera a compartir su mesa, una imagen de la enseñanza rica y satisfactoria. En este libro, Barbara Reid invita a los lectores a esta fiesta, …
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Michele Murray: Tobit
Blindness by bird excrement, seven husbands murdered by a love-sick demon, a father with the corpses of his sons-in-law interred in the backyard, and a magical fish. These farcical elements make the …
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Lynn R. Huber & Gail R. O’Day: Revelation
While feminist interpretations of the Book of Revelation often focus on the book’s use of feminine archetypes—mother, bride, and prostitute, this commentary explores how gender, sexuality, and other …
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Leslie J. Hoppe: Zechariah
The book of Zechariah is one of the more obscure books of the Bible. In this commentary on the life of the prophet Zechariah, Leslie J. Hoppe, OFM, explores the Bible through a feminist lens to help …
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