Nicole Ruane

Nicole Ruane
Senior Lecturer
Classics, Humanities and Italian Studies
Office: Classics, Humanities, & Italian Studies, Murkland Hall Rm 315, Durham, NH 03824
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Nicole Ruane

Education

  • Ph.D., Biblical Studies, Union Theological Seminary
  • M.A., Union Theological Seminary
  • B.A., Religious Studies, Hamilton College

Research Interests

  • Bible
  • Gender studies
  • Literary theory
  • Religion

Courses Taught

  • CLAS 400: Exploring/Ancient World
  • HONR 799H: Honors Thesis Completion
  • 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 700: Seminar
  • HUMA/RS 505: Intro to Religion

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, 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., & 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. (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 https://www.webofscience.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 https://www.webofscience.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 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/

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