Rabbi Dr. Barbara Thiede
Rabbi Thiede delights in demonstrating the rich beauty of Jewish culture, tradition, and heritage. “It’s not about what you know,” she says, “it’s about what you want to know.”
Rabbi Thiede is a professor of Judaic Studies at UNC-Charlotte’s Department of Religious Studies. Her courses include the study of Hebrew Bible, Judaism, the history of European antisemitism, and even Jewish magic! Teaching and writing are her passion; she regularly delivers lectures on Jewish history, culture, and religion for colleges, religious, and secular institutions. She has published two books with Routledge Press exploring masculinity and sexual violence in Tanakh, Male Friendship, Homosociality, and Women in the Hebrew Bible: Malignant Fraternities and Rape Culture in the House of David: A Company of Men. She is hard at work on her third book, Yhwh’s Emotional and Sexual Life in the Books of Samuel: How the Deity Acts the Man will be published with Bloomsbury Press. Rabbi Thiede blogs at adrenalinedrash.com.
