Nicole J. Ruane

Research Interests
- Bible
- Gender studies
- Literary theory
- Religion
Courses Taught
- CLAS 520: Greek & Roman Religion
- GREK 504: Intermediate ClassicalGreek II
- HUMA 401: Intro Humanities/Jesus in Film
- HUMA 440: Hon/That Belongs in a Museum
- HUMA 500: Critical Methods in Humanities
- HUMA 510: Ancient World
- HUMA 592: Spec Top/God:The Early History
- HUMA 700: Sem/Violence & Society
- HUMA 730: Spc Stdy Sem/Gen Viol & Soc
- WS 632: Feminist Thought
Selected Publications
Ruane, N. J. (2019). Constructing Contagion on Yom Kippur: Reflections on the Scapegoat as Ḥaṭṭa’t.. In T. Heike, & C. Eberhart (Eds.), Writing a Commentary on Leviticus: Hermeneutics -- Methodology -- Themes (Vol. 276). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.
Ruane, N. (2017). Why Does the Bible Prohibit Eating Pork?
http://global.oup.com/obso/focus/focus_on_why_does_the_bible_prohibit_eating_pork/. Retrieved from http://global.oup.com/
Ruane, N. (2016). “When Women Aren’t Enough: Gender Criticism in Feminist Hebrew Bible Interpretation.”. In Feminist Interpretation of the Hebrew Bible in Retrospect. III. Methods (Vol. 3).
Ruane. (2015). Pigs, Purity, and Patrilineality: The Multiparity of Swine and Its Problems for Biblical Ritual and Gender Construction. Journal of Biblical Literature, 134(3), 489. doi:10.15699/jbl.1343.2015.2996
Ruane, N. J., & Ruane, N. J. (2013). Fathers and Firstlings: The Gendered Rhetoric of Child Sacrifice. In SACRIFICE AND GENDER IN BIBLICAL LAW (pp. 194-227). Retrieved from http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/
Ruane, N. J. (2013). Sacrifice and Gender in Biblical Law. doi:10.1017/CBO9781139046961
Ruane, N. J., & Ruane, N. J. (2013). Conclusion: Child Sacrifice and Animal Sacrifice. SACRIFICE AND GENDER IN BIBLICAL LAW, 228-234. Retrieved from http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/
Ruane, N. J., & Ruane, N. J. (2013). Females and Death: The Sacred Impurity of the Red Cow. In SACRIFICE AND GENDER IN BIBLICAL LAW (pp. 106-147). Retrieved from http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/
Ruane, N. J., & Ruane, N. J. (2013). Mothers, Milk, and Meat: The Exclusion of Motherhood from Sacrifice in Cultic Food Laws. In SACRIFICE AND GENDER IN BIBLICAL LAW (pp. 77-105). Retrieved from http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/
Ruane, N. J., & Ruane, N. J. (2013). Gender, Animals, and Sacrificial Victimology. In SACRIFICE AND GENDER IN BIBLICAL LAW (pp. 40-76). Retrieved from http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/
Most Cited Publications