1 Corinthians 11 Reading List
Women in the New Testament
Curious to read more about interpreting New Testament texts about women and their role in the church? Pr. Nicky shares the following reading list.
Top 2 Picks
If you read just 2 books, here’s what Nicky suggests. These books reflect the teaching our church follows on interpreting and applying New Testament texts related to women.
Williams, Terran. How God Sees Women: The End of Patriarchy (2022)
Barr, Beth Allison. The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth (Brazos, 2021)
Other Resources mentioned in the sermon (March 2, 2025)
Storkey, Elaine. Scars Across Humanity: Understanding and Overcoming Violence Against Women (SPCK Publishing, 2015)
Tucker, Ruth A. Black and White Bible, Black and Blue Wife: My Story of Finding Hope after Domestic Abuse (Zondervan, 2016)
Laxton, Clare. Killer in the Family Podcast.
Up for a deeper dive?
Here’s a reading list from a course on women in the New Testament that covers a spectrum of perspectives.
MAIN READINGS
Hylen, Susan. Finding Phoebe: What New Testament Women Were Really Like (Eerdmans, 2023)
Pierce, Ronald, Cynthia Westfall, and Christa McKirland, eds. Discovering Biblical Equality (3rd edition) (IVP, 2021) [DBE]
MORE ACCESSIBLE BOOKS
Barr, Beth Allison. The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth (Brazos, 2021)
Beers, Holly. A Week in the Life of a Greco-Roman Woman (IVP, 2019)
Durgin, Celina and Dru Johnson, eds. The Biblical World of Gender (Cascade, 2022)
Gaventa, Beverly. When in Romans: An Invitation to Linger with the Gospel According to Paul (Baker, 2016)
Gooder, Paula. Phoebe: A Story (Hodder & Stoughton, 2019)
Gooder, Paula. Lydia: A Story (Hodder & Stoughton, 2023)
Lee, Dorothy. The Ministry of Women in the New Testament: Reclaiming the Biblical Vision for Church Leadership (Baker Academic, 2021)
Peppiatt, Lucy. Unveiling Paul’s Women: Making Sense of 1 Corinthians 11:2-16 (Cascade, 2018)
Peppiatt, Lucy. Recovering Scripture’s Vision for Women (IVP, 2019)
Witherington, Ben. Priscilla: The Life of an Early Christian (IVP, 2019) [also an audiobook]
MORE TECHNICAL BOOKS & ARTICLES
Bauckham, Richard. Gospel Women: Studies of the Named Women in the Gospels (Eerdmans, 2002)
Beck, James and Craig Blomberg, eds. Two Views on Women in Ministry (Zondervan, 2005)
Belleville, Linda. “Exegetical Fallacies in Interpreting 1 Timothy 2:11–15: Evaluating the text with contextual, lexical, grammatical, and cultural information”
Bird, Michael and Scott Harrower, eds. Trinity Without Hierarchy: Reclaiming Nicene Orthodoxy in Evangelical Theology (Kregel, 2019).
Brooten, Bernadette J. Women Leaders in the Ancient Synagogue: Inscriptional Evidence and Background Issues (Brown Judaic Studies 36) (Brown University, 1982)
Burer, Michael H. and Daniel B. Wallace. “Was Junia Really an Apostle? A Re-Examination of Rom 16.7.” New Testament Studies 47, no. 1 (2001): 76–91.
Cohick, Lynn H. Women in the World of the Earliest Christians: Illuminating Ancient Ways of Life. (GrandRapids: Baker Academic, 2009)
Ehrensperger, Kathy. That We May Be Mutually Encouraged: Feminism and the New Perspective in Pauline Studies. (New York: T&T Clark, 2004)
Epp, Eldon. Junia: The First Woman Apostle (Fortress, 2005)
Gaventa, Beverly. Our Mother Saint Paul (WJK, 2007)
Glahn, Sandra. Nobody’s Mother: Artemis of the Ephesians in Antiquity and the New Testament (IVP, 2023)
Grudem, Wayne. Evangelical Feminism and Biblical Truth: An Analysis of More Than One Hundred Disputed Questions (Crossway, 2012)
Hylen, Susan. Women in the New Testament World (OUP, 2018)
Hylen, Susan. “Public and Private Space and Action in the Early Roman Period” New Testament Studies 66 (2020), 534–553.
King, F. J. and D. A. Lee. “Lost in Translation: Rethinking Words about Women in 1–2 Timothy” Scottish Journal of Theology 74.1 (2021), 52–66.
Köstenberger, Andreas J. and Tom Schreiner. Women in the Church: An Interpretation and Application of 1 Timothy 2:9–15 (3rd Edition) (Crossway, 2016) [1st ed. 1995; 2nd ed. 2005]
Köstenberger, Andreas J. and Margaret Elizabeth J. Köstenberger, God’s Design for Man and Woman: A Biblical-Theological Survey (2014)
Lavrinoviča, Aļesja. “1 Cor 14.34–5 without ‘in All the Churches of the Saints’: External Evidence” New Testament Studies 63 (2017), 370–389.
Lee-Barnewall, Michelle. Neither Complementarian nor Egalitarian (Baker Academic, 2016).
Lin, Yii-Jan “Junia: An Apostle before Paul” Journal of Biblical Literature 139 (1), 191-209, 2020
Newsom, C., S. Ringe, and J. Lapsley. The Women’s Bible Commentary (revised edition) (SPCK, 2014)
Osiek, Carolyn. “Diakonos and Prostasis: Women’s Patronage in Early Christianity,” HTS 61.1-2 (2005): 347-370.
Osiek, Carolyn and Margaret MacDonald (with Janet Tulloch), A Woman’s Place: House Churches in Earliest Christianity (Fortess, 2000)
Payne, Philip B. Man and Woman, One in Christ: An Exegetical and Theological Study of Paul’s Letters (Zondervan, 2015)
Peeler, Amy. Women and the Gender of God (Eerdmans, 2022)
Peters, Janelle. “Slavery and the Gendered Construction of Worship Veils in 1 Corinthians” Biblica 101.3 (2020): 431–443.
Pierce, Ronald, Cynthia Westfall, and Christa McKirland, eds. Discovering Biblical Equality (3rd edition) (IVP, 2021) [DBE]
Piper, John and Wayne Grudem, eds. Recovering Biblical Manhood and Womanhood (revised edition) (Crossway, 2021) [RBMW]
Reeder, Caryn. The Samaritan Woman’s Story: Reconsidering John 4 after #ChurchToo (IVP, 2022)
Schüssler Fiorenza, E. In Memory of Her: A Feminist Theological Reconstruction of Christian Origins (SCM, 1983)
Schrader, Elizabeth and Joan Taylor, “The Meaning of ‘Magdalene’: A Review of Literary Evidence,” Journal of Biblical Literature, 140.4 (2021), 751–73.
Smith, Mitzi J. Chloe and Her People: a Womanist Critical Dialogue with First Corinthians (Cascade, 2023)
Taylor, Joan. “Missing Magdala and the name of Mary ‘Magdalene’” Palestine Exploration Quarterly 146.3 (2014): 205–223.
Westfall, Cynthia L. “The Meaning of Authenteō in 1 Timothy 2.12,” JGRChJ 10 (2014): 138-173.
Westfall, Cynthia L. Paul and Gender: Reclaiming the Apostle’s Vision for Men and Women in Christ (Baker, 2016)
Wilson, Brittany. Unmanly Men: Reconfigurations of Masculinity in Luke-Acts (OUP, 2015)
