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Rhiannon Graybill

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Rhiannon Graybill is a Professor of Religious Studies. She is the Marcus M. and Carole M. Weinstein & Gilbert M. and Fannie S. Rosenthal Chair of Jewish Studies at the University of Richmond. She is an expert on the Hebrew Bible.

Education

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Graybill received her PhD in Near Eastern Studies, from the University of California, Berkeley in 2012. Her thesis was entitled Men in Travail: Masculinity and the Problems of the Body in the Hebrew Prophets.[1] Her doctoral supervisor was Robert Altar.

Career

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Graybill is the author of Are We Not Men? Unstable Masculinity in the Hebrew Prophets, published by Oxford University Press in 2016.[2] She published her second book, Texts after Terror: Rape, Sexual Violence, and the Hebrew Bible again with Oxford University Press (2021).[3] Texts after Terror received the American Academy of Religion's 2022 Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion. Graybill is the co-editor, with Robert L. Seesengood, of the journal The Bible and Critical Theory.[4]

Bibliography

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  • (with John Kaltner and Steven L. McKenzie) Jonah: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary (Anchor Yale Bible Commentaries Series, 2023)[5]
  • (with John Kaltner and Steven L. McKenzie) What Are They Saying about the Book of Jonah? (Paulist Press, 2023)[6]
  • (with M. Cooper Minister and Beatrice Lawrence) Rape Culture and Religious Studies: Critical and Pedagogical Engagements (Lexington, 2019)[7]
  • (with Lynn R. Huber) The Bible, Gender, and Sexuality: Critical Readings (Bloomsbury/T.&T. Clark, 2020)[8]
  • (with Peter J. Sabo) “Who Knows What We’d Make of It, If We Ever Got Our Hands on It?”: The Bible and Margaret Atwood (Gorgias, 2021)[9]
  • (with Kent L. Brintnall and Linn Marie Tonstad) Lee Edelman and the Queer Study of Religion (Routledge, 2023)[10]
  • (with L. Juliana M. Claassens and Christi M. Maier) Narrating Rape: Shifting Perspectives in Biblical Literature and Popular Culture (SCM Press, 2024)[11]

Reference list

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  1. ^ Graybill, Cristina Rhiannon (2012). Men in Travail: Masculinity and the Problems of the Body in the Hebrew Prophets (PhD thesis). University of California, Berkeley. Retrieved 12 December 2024.
  2. ^ Gaines, Jason M. H. (2018). "Review of Are We Not Men? Unstable Masculinity in the Hebrew Prophets". AJS Review. 42 (1): 195–197. ISSN 0364-0094.
  3. ^ Fry, Alexiana (17 January 2022). "Book review: Texts After Terror: Rape, Sexual Violence, and The Hebrew Bible". CSBV.
  4. ^ "The Bible and Critical Theory: An online scholarly journal that publishes peer-reviewed articles that explore the intersections between critical theory and biblical studies". Retrieved 12 December 2024.
  5. ^ Kelle, Brad E. (September 2024). "Jonah: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary". Religious Studies Review. 50 (3): 597–597. doi:10.1111/rsr.17371.
  6. ^ Bodeau, Abigail (June 2024). "Shorter Notice: Graybill, Rhiannon, Kaltner, John and McKenzie, Steven L.: What Are They Saying about the Book of Jonah?". Theological Studies. 85 (2): 360–360. doi:10.1177/00405639241248950a.
  7. ^ Selke, J (June 2021). "Rape Culture and Religious Studies: Critical and Pedagogical Engagements Edited by Rhiannon Graybill, Meredith Minister, and Beatrice Lawrence. Feminist Studies and Sacred Texts Series". Religious Studies Review. 47 (2): 215–216. doi:10.1111/rsr.15181.
  8. ^ Birdsong, Shelley L (2022). "The Bible, Gender, and Sexuality: Critical Readings". Review of Biblical Literature. 24: 10–15.
  9. ^ Radford, CL Wren (15 January 2022). "'Who Knows What We'd Make of It, if We Ever Got Our Hands on It?': The Bible and Margaret Atwood. Edited by Rhiannon Graybill and Peter Sabo". Literature and Theology. 35 (4): 483–485. doi:10.1093/litthe/fraa038.
  10. ^ "Book Review: Lee Edelman and the Queer Study of Religion". Feminist Theology. 32 (3): 387–387. May 2024. doi:10.1177/09667350241233594c.
  11. ^ Claassens, L. Juliana M.; Graybill, Rhiannon; Maier, Christl M. (30 September 2024). Narrating Rape: Shifting Perspectives in Biblical Literature and Popular Culture. SCM Press. ISBN 978-0-334-06625-5.