Adele Reinhartz
Full Professor, Department of Classics and Religious Studies
Member of the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies and thereby authorized to supervise theses.
Office: ARTS 014
Telephone: 613-562-5800, ext 1339
Fax: 613-562-5271
E-mail: adele.reinhartz@uOttawa.ca
Adele Reinhartz is the author of numerous articles and several books, including “Why Ask My Name?” Anonymity and Identity in Biblical Narrative (Oxford, 1998), Befriending the Beloved Disciple: A Jewish Reading of the Gospel of John (Continuum, 2001), and Scripture on the Silver Screen (Westminster John Knox, 2003). Her latest book is a study of the Jesus movies, entitled Jesus of Hollywood (Oxford 2007). She is currently working on several projects: a book on Caiaphas the High Priest, in history, historiography, and culture, a project on the Johannine community (with support from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council) and, as part of the Loeb Consortium on Organ and Tissue Donation, a study of films involving organ donation and transplantation (with support from the American Academy of Religion). Adele was elected to the Royal Society of Canada in 2005.
University degrees
1983 - PhD, McMaster University
1977 - MA, McMaster University
1975 - BA, University of Toronto
Fields of interest
- Early Christianity and Judaism
- Gospel of John
- Bible and Film
- Jewish-Christian Relations
- Feminist Biblical Criticism
Selected publications
Books
Jesus of Hollywood (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007).
Scripture on the Silver Screen (Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2003).
Befriending the Beloved Disciple: A Jewish Reading of the Gospel of John (New York: Continuum, 2001). Finalist, 2001 National Jewish Book Awards. 2003 F. W. Beare Award for Outstanding Book in Christian Origins (Canadian Society of Biblical Studies). German translation: Freundschaft mit dem Geliebten Jünger: Eine jüdische Lektüre des Johannesevangeliums, trans. Esther Kobel (Zurich: Theologischer Verlag Zürich, 2005).
"Why Ask My Name?" Anonymity and Identity in Biblical Narrative (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998). Winner of 2000 Canadian Jewish Book Award for Biblical Scholarship.
The Word in the World (SBL Monograph Series 45, Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1992).
Books under contract
Caiaphas the High Priest. Personalities of the New Testament Series, edited by D. Moody Smith. (Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, projected publication 2007).
Edited volumes
Jesus, Judaism and Anti-Judaism: Reading the New Testament After the Holocaust. Co-edited with Paula Fredriksen. (Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2002).
God the Father in the Gospel of John. Semeia 85 (Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 1999; appeared 2001).
Frye and the Afterlife of the Word. Co-edited with James Kee. Semeia 89 (Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2002)
Book chapters (selected)
“ ‘Who am I? Where am I Going?’ The Sopranos on Life, Death and Religion.” In Faith in High Definition: Religion and the Television Drama after 9/11, ed. Diane Winston and Jane Naomi Iwamura ( Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, forthcoming, 2008).
“ ‘Jews’ and Anti-Judaism: Reading John after Nostra Aetate.” In Nostra Aetate at 40: Achievements and Challenges in Christian-Jewish Relations, ed. Jean Duhaime (Montreal: Novalis, 2007), 51-65.
“The Gospel of John.” In The Oxford Handbook of English Literature and Theology, ed. Andrew W. Hass, David Jasper and Elisabeth Jay (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), 223-42.
“John’s Pharisees” (co-author Raimo Hakola). In Quest for the Historical Pharisees, e d. J. Neusner and B. Chilton ( Waco, TX: Baylor UP, 2006), 131-47.
“Rodney Stark and ‘The Mission to the Jews.’” Religious Rivalries in the Early Roman Empire and the Rise of Christianity, ed. Leif E. Vaage (Studies in Christianity and Judaism / Études sur le christianisme et le judaïsme; Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier Press, 2006), 197-212.
“From Conflict to Co-Existence: Hagar and Sarah in Jewish Interpretation.” With Miriam-Simma Walfish. In Children of Hagar and Sarah: Muslim, Jewish, and Christian, ed. Phyllis Trible and Letty M. Russell (Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox, 2006), 101-125.
“John, Gender and Judaism: A Feminist’s Dilemma.” In Kontexte der Schrift, Bd. 1. Text – Ethik – Judentum und Christentum – Gesellschaft. Festschrift für Ekkehard W. Stegemann zum 60. Geburtstag, ed. Gabriella Gelardini et al. (Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 2005), 184-97.
“A Fork in the Road or a Multi-Lane Highway? New Perspectives on ‘The Parting of the Ways’ Between Judaism and Christianity.” In The Changing Face of Judaism, Christianity and Other Greco-Roman Religions in Antiquity (Studien zu den Jüdischen Schriften aus hellenistisch-römischer Zeit, Bd 2; Gütersloh: Gütersloher Verlagshaus GmbH, 2005), 278-293.
“Celluloid Saviors and the Gospels.” In Jesus in the World’s Faiths: Leading Thinkers from the Five Religions Reflect on His Meaning, ed. by Gregory A. Barker (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 2005), 161-65.
“Love, Hate, and Violence in the Gospel of John.” In Violence in the New Testament, ed. Shelly Matthews and E. Leigh Gibson (New York: Continuum, 2005), 109-123.
“Women in the Johannine Community: An Exercise in Historical Imagination.” In A Feminist Companion to John, vol. 2, ed. Amy-Jill Levine (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2003), 14-33.
“Jewish Women’s Biblical Scholarship.” In The Jewish Study Bible, ed. Adele Berlin and Marc Brettler (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003), 2000-2005.
“The Colonized as Colonizer: A Postcolonial Reading of the Gospel of John.” In Postcolonialism and John, ed. Jeffrey Staley and R. S. Sugirtharajah (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2002), 170-92.
“Jews” and Jews in the Fourth Gospel.” In Anti-Judaism and the Fourth Gospel: Papers of the Leuven Colloquium, 2000, ed. R. Bieringer et al. (Assen, Netherlands: Van Gorcum, 2001), 341-356.
“John 8:31-59 from a Jewish Perspective.” In Remembering for the Future 2000: The Holocaust in an Age of Genocides, vol. 2, ed. John K. Roth and Elisabeth Maxwell-Meynard (London: Palgrave, 2001), 787-97.
“To Love the Lord: An Intertextual Reading of John 20.” In The Labour of Reading: Essays in Honour of Robert C. Culley, ed. Fiona Black, Roland Boer, Christian Kelm, Erin Runions (Semeia Studies; Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1999), 56-69.
“Better Homes and Gardens: Women and Domestic Space in the Books of Judith and Susanna.” In Text and Artifact: Judaism and Christianity in the Ancient Mediterranean World, Essays in Honour of Peter Richardson, ed. Michel Desjardins and Stephen G. Wilson (Studies in Christianity and Judaism 9; Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier Press, 2000), 325-339.
“The Johannine Community and its Jewish Neighbors: A Reappraisal.” In What is John? Vol. 2, Literary and Social Readings of the Fourth Gospel, ed. Fernando F. Segovia (Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1998), 111-38.
“Feminist Criticism and Biblical Studies on the Verge of the Twenty-First Century.” In A Feminist Companion to Reading the Bible: Approaches, Methods and Strategies, ed. Athalya Brenner and Carole Fontaine (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1997), 30-38.
“A Feminist Commentary on the Gospel of John.” In Searching the Scriptures, vol. 2, ed. Elizabeth Schüssler Fiorenza (New York: Crossroad, 1994), 561-600.
“Parents and Children: A Philonic Perspective.” In The Jewish Family in Antiquity, ed. Shaye Cohen (Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1993), 61-88.
“From Narrative to History: The Resurrection of Martha and Mary.” In “Women Like This”: New Perspectives on Jewish Women in the Greco-Roman World, ed. Amy-Jill Levine (Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1991), 161-84.
Refereed journal articles
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“Why Comment? Reflections on Bible Commentaries in General and Andrew Lincoln’s The Gospel according to Saint John in Particular.” Journal for the Study of the New Testament 29 (2007): 333- 42.
“History and Pseudo-History in the Jesus Film Genre.” Biblical Interpretation 14 (2006): 1-17.
“Oscar Cullmann und sein Beitrag zur Johannes-Forschung.” Translated by Esther Koebel. Theologische Zeitschrift 57/3 (2002): 221-31.
“Margins, Methods, and Metaphors: Reflections on A Feminist Companion to the Hebrew Bible.” Prooftexts 20 (2000): 47-66.
“Midrash She Wrote: Jewish Women’s Writing on the Bible,” Shofar 16/4 (1998): 6-27.
“A Nice Jewish Girl Reads the Gospel of John,” Semeia 77: Ethics and Reading the Bible, ed. Gary Phillips and Danna Nolan Fewell (Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1998): 177-193.
“Philo on Infanticide,” Studia Philonica Annual 4 (1992): 42-58.
“Rabbinic Perceptions of Simon Bar Kosiba,” Journal for the Study of Judaism XX (1989): 172-194.
“Jesus as Prophet: Predictive Prolepses in the Fourth Gospel,” Journal for the Study of the New Testament 36 (1989): 3-16.
Other
“Jesus of Hollywood: From D.W. Griffith to Mel Gibson” The New Republic, March 8, 2004, pp. 26-29.
