Publications

Monographs
2024 (forthcoming) Introducing a Hermeneutics of Cispicion: Reading Sarah and Esau’s Gender (Failures) Beyond Cisnormativity. The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies. Bloomsbury T&T Clark.

Journal Articles
2022 Gwyther, K. & Henderson-Merrygold, J. The Disidentification of Mordecai: A Drag Interpretation of Esther 8:15. Hebrew Studies 63, pp. 119-141. DOI: 10.1353/hbr.2022.0006 – Download directly via this link: Disidentification of Mordecai 
2020 Gendering Sarai: Reading Beyond Cisnormativity in Genesis 11:29-12:20 and 20:1-18. Open Theology 6 (1), pp. 496-509. DOI: 10.1515/opth-2020-0133 (Open Access)
2014 Prideaux M, with Merrygold, J. What the Community Religion Project can tell us about the Study of Religious Diversity in the UK. DISKUS 16 (3) pp. 34-46.

Edited Volumes
2006 Ingham, H., Merrygold, J., Purcell, L. and Rudge, S. (eds). Reading the Bible: Approaching and Understanding Scripture. Birmingham: Student Christian Movement.

Book Chapters

2022

 R. Grant & Henderson-Merrygold, J. Old Gods in New Films: History, Culture, and Religion in Black Panther, Doctor Strange, and Thor: Ragnarok. In: Baldwin, J. & White Hodge, D. Marveling Religion: Critical Discourses, Religion, and the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Lexington
2021 Jacob: A (Drag) King amongst Patriarchs. In: Domoney-Lyttle, Z. & Nicholson, S. (eds). Women and Gender in the Bible: Texts, Intersections, Intertexts. Sheffield Phoenix
2021 Reading Biblical Embodiment Cispiciously. In: Page, S. J. & Pilcher, K. (eds). Embodying Religion, Gender and Sexuality. Routledge
2018 Queer(y)ing the Violence of Christian Discourses of Gender and Sexuality. In: Blyth, C. Colgan, E & Edwards, K. (eds). Gender Violence, Rape Culture, and Religion: Christian Perspectives. Palgrave MacMillan
2006 Jehovah’s Witnesses and the Bible. In: Ingham, H. et al. (eds). Reading the Bible: Approaching and Understanding Scripture. Birmingham: Student Christian Movement.

Encyclopedia Entries
2018 “Lot’s Wife (Literature)” In: Swindell, A. (ed). Encyclopedia on the Bible and its Reception. Berlin: De Gruyter.

Book Reviews
2018 “Graybill, Rhiannon, Are We Not Men? Unstable Masculinity in the Hebrew Prophets (New York: Oxford University Press, 2016), pp. xii + 187.” in Journal for the Study of the Old Testament.
2017 Book Review: Transgender, Intersex, and Biblical Studies by Teresa J. Hornsby and Deryn Guest (SBL Press, 2016), in Review of Biblical Literature.
2016 “Meredith, Christopher, Journeys in the Songscape: Space and the Song of Songs (Hebrew Bible Monographs, 53: Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2013), pp. xii + 202” in Journal for the Study of the Study of The Old Testament 40(5): 110-111.