Courses Taught
- CLAS 400: Exploring/Ancient World
- HONR 799H: Honors Thesis Completion
- HUMA 401: Introduction to Humanities
- HUMA 401W: Introduction to Humanities
- HUMA 440B: Honors/That Belongs in aMuseum
- HUMA 500: Critical Methods in Humanities
- HUMA 510B: Ancient Humanities
- HUMA 512B: Modern Humanities
- HUMA 527: Humanities and Religion
- HUMA 700: Seminar
- HUMA/RS 505: Intro to Religion
- INCO 590: Student Research Experience
Research Interests
- Bible
- Gender studies
- Literary theory
- Religion
Selected Publications
Ruane, N. (2022). Milk, Meat, and Mothers: The Problem of Motherhood in Some Ritual Food Laws. In L. Quick, & M. Ramos (Eds.), New Perspectives on Ritual in the Biblical World. Bloomsbury Publishing.
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_e…. 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, N. J. (2015). Pigs, Purity, and Patrilineality: The Multiparity of Swine and Its Problems for Biblical Ritual and Gender Construction. JOURNAL OF BIBLICAL LITERATURE, 134(3), 489-504. doi:10.1353/jbl.2015.0035
Ruane, N. J. (2013). Sacrifice and Gender in Biblical Law. doi:10.1017/CBO9781139046961
Ruane, N. J., & Ruane, N. J. (2013). Women's Sacrificial Roles in Biblical Law. In SACRIFICE AND GENDER IN BIBLICAL LAW (pp. 18-39). Retrieved from https://www.webofscience.com/
Ruane, N. J., & Ruane, N. J. (2013). Impurity and the Creation of Difference. In SACRIFICE AND GENDER IN BIBLICAL LAW (pp. 148-193). Retrieved from https://www.webofscience.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 https://www.webofscience.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 https://www.webofscience.com/