Susanne Scholz is Professor of Old Testament at Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, U.S.A. She holds a Ph.D. from Union Theological Seminary, NY.
She taught at Union Theological Seminary in New York City, Fordham University, the College of Wooster, Merrimack College, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and the Graduate Theological Union's summer session. She is a frequent lecturer at educational programs of churches and religious organizations in the United States and in Europe. Her scholarly interests are in Hebrew Bible, biblical studies, women/gender, culture, and religion, and interfaith dialog.
Among her publications are Sacred Witness: Rape in the Hebrew Bible (Fortress 2010), Introducing the Women’s Hebrew Bible (T&T Clark 2007), Rape Plots: A Feminist Cultural Study of Genesis 34 (Lang 2000), Biblical Studies Alternatively: An Introductory Reader (Prentice Hall 2003) and Zwischenräume: Deutsche feministische Theologinnen im Ausland (LIT 2000). Most recently, she contributed an article on "Judges" to the Women's Bible Commentary (Westminster John Knox Press, 2012).
Dr. Scholz is a member of the Society of Biblical Literature (SBL), American Academy of Religion (AAR), European Society of Women in Theological Research (ESWTR), and the Catholic Biblical Association (CBA).
I love reading my offline newspaper, The New York Times, delivered to my doorsteps, every morning. I love it because I never know what I will read while drinking my Darjeeling tea. The advantage of the offline issue is that editors prepared the sequence of articles for us offline readers whereas in the online edition […]
I have been pondering how to respond to the events of sexual harassment, theft, and rape in several major cities in Germany on New Year’s Eve of 2015. Did the gangs of men, looking “North African” and “Arabic” to the mostly female German victim-survivors, indicate a failed integration policy in Germany or deeply ingrained patriarchal […]
What should feminist scholars in religious and theological studies do about the recent developments related to Title IX? After all, even the federal government is currently involved in trying to eliminate sexual harassment and sexual assault from US-American colleges and university. The situation is indeed dire, as a survey of September 2015 indicates. The responses […]
A Dialogical Blog with Susanne Scholz (s2), Nancy R. Nangeroni (NRN), and Gordene O. MacKenzie (GOM) Transgender activist, writer, speaker, and media producer on issues of gender, Nancy R. Nangeroni (below, left) serves as Chair Emeritus of the Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition. She created and co-hosted GenderTalk, the award-winning weekly radio talk show about gender and transgender issues. Award-winning gender activist, speaker, […]
This is a dialogical blog between Dr. Rebecca T. Alpert, Professor of Religion at Temple University and an ordained rabbi, and me. Susanne: So here we are a few days after the New York Times article entitled “Same-Sex Interfaith Couples Face Roadblock to Marriage in Judaism,” written by Mark Oppenheimer and published on January […]
When I am reading online and offline newspapers, I am struck by the constant barrage of articles, editorials, and commentaries about the relentless misogyny in the world. Some topics seem to have regained visibility. One of them is the issue of sexual violence and rape. It was initially brought out into the open during the […]
I like the action-driven courage of the bare-breasted Femen women. Their radical feminism reminds me of how many of us feminist academic types have retreated into the “do-able,” the “tenure-able,” “promotion-able,” and “adaptable” versions of gender practice in our work lives and lives overall. The “lean-in” women who are trying very hard to make it […]
“They will come and rape the men before the women, that’s what these infidels will do. They will rape the men before the women. God make us victorious over them!” According to an article in the international section of the New York Times, two men belonging to a group called “Jihadists from the Islamic State […]
Today, Nicholas D Kristof wrote a very irritating op-ed in the New York Times. It has bugged me all morning. I am kind of surprised to hear him make his politically reactionary argument in support of increasing women’s numbers on company boards. After all, he has done some very important journalistic work on the trafficking […]
I cannot get the photo out of my head that presents a collage of twenty of the House Republicans responsible for shutting down the government since October 1, 2013. There are more than twenty of them but the photo shows those elected by wide margins. In other words, these twenty politicians “stand their ground” because […]