Nicole Ruane

Research Interests
- Bible
- Gender studies
- Literary theory
- Religion
Courses Taught
- CLAS 400: Exploring/Ancient World
- GREK 504: Intermediate ClassicalGreek II
- HUMA 401: Intro to Humanities: Evil
- HUMA 401W: Introduction to Humanities
- HUMA 440B: Honors/That Belongs in aMuseum
- HUMA 500: Critical Methods in Humanities
- HUMA 510B: Ancient Humanities
- HUMA 527: Honors/Humanities and Religion
- HUMA 592W: Spec Top/God:The Early History
- HUMA 700: Seminar/Women of 603
- 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). Women's Sacrificial Roles in Biblical Law. In SACRIFICE AND GENDER IN BIBLICAL LAW (pp. 18-39). Retrieved from http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/
Ruane, N. J. (2013). Sacrifice and Gender in Biblical Law. Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/cbo9781139046961
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/
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., & 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). Impurity and the Creation of Difference. In SACRIFICE AND GENDER IN BIBLICAL LAW (pp. 148-193). Retrieved from http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/
Most Cited Publications