This episode is hosted by Joseph Scales and Eleanor Vivian. We discuss the work behind an open call for papers in a special issue of the Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies (JIBS), edited by Susannah Rees and Ellena Lyell. We talk with them about how they organised this issue and the broader themes they seek to engage with in the issue itself.

Susannah Rees is about to go into the third year of her PhD at King’s College London. Her research focuses on cosmetics in the Hebrew Bible and ancient Near East more broadly. You can find her on twitter: @ReesSusy

Dr Ellena Lyell is an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Exeter. Her research sits at the intersection of biblical studies, Classics, anthropology, and ancient Near Eastern studies. Her forthcoming monograph analyses the material, cultural and theological significance of colour in the Hebrew Bible. Her twitter handle is: @ellenaclyell

You can find the call for papers for Unnamed and Uncredited: Anonymous Figures in the Biblical World here: https://jibs.group.shef.ac.uk/unnamed-and-uncredited-anonymous-figures-in-the-biblical-world/

Short Bibliography:

Reinhartz, Adele. “Anonymous Women and the Collapse of the Monarchy: A Study in Narrative Technique.” In A Feminist Companion to Samuel and Kings, ed. Athalya Brenner (Sheffield, England: Sheffield Academic Press, 1994), 43–67.

Meyers, Carol L., Toni Craven, and Ross Shepard Kraemer. Women in Scripture: A Dictionary of Named and Unnamed Women in the Hebrew Bible, the Apocryphal/Deuterocanonical Books, and the New Testament (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2000).

Thanks for listening!