Washington's primary academic interests are: "Hebrew Bible, with special interest in Hebrew Wisdom Literature, Gender Critical Studies , History and Ethics of Biblical Interpretation" (www.spst.edu/academics/washington.htm).
He has contributed chapters to several books. They consist of:
- “Signifying on Exodus: Reading Race and Culture in Zora Neale Hurston’s Moses: Man of the Mountain,” in ''A Feminist Companion to Exodus to Deuteronomy'', Athalya Brenner, ed., The Feminist Companion to the Bible, 6 (Sheffield, UK: Sheffield Academic Press, 2000), 41-58.
- “‘Lest He Die in the Battle and Another Man Take Her’: Violence and the Construction of Gender in the Laws of Deuteronomy 20-22,” in ''Gender and Law in the Hebrew Bible and the Ancient Near East'', Victor H. Matthews, Bernard M. Levinson and Tikva Frymer-Kensky, eds., JSOT Supplement Series, 262 (Sheffield, UK: Sheffield Academic Press, 1998), 185-213.
- “Rape as a Military Metaphor in the Hebrew Bible,” co-authored with Pamela Gordon, in ''A Feminist Companion to the Latter Prophets''; Athalya Brenner, ed., ''The Feminist Companion to the Bible'', 8 (Sheffield, UK: Sheffield Academic Press, 1995), 308-325.
- “‘And Your Daughters Shall Prophesy’: Gender and Culture in Early Quaker Biblical Interpretation,” in ''Text and Experience: Towards a Cultural Exegesis of the Bible'', Daniel Smith-Christopher, ed., The Biblical Seminar, 35 (Sheffield, UK: Sheffield Academic Press, 1995), 23-42.
- “The ‘Strange Woman’ of Proverbs 1-9 and Post-Exilic Judean Society,” in ''Second Temple Studies 2: Temple and Community in the Persian Period'', Tamara C. Eskenazi and Kent H. Richards, eds., JSOT Supplement Series, 175 (Sheffield, UK: JSOT Press, 1994), 217-42; reprinted in ''A Feminist Companion to Wisdom Literature'', Athalya Brenner, ed., ''The Feminist Companion to the Bible'', 9 (Sheffield, UK: Sheffield Academic Press, 1995), 157-84.
- ''Escaping Eden: New Feminist Perspectives on the Bible'', co-edited with Susan Lochrie Grahm and Pamela Thimmes (Sheffield Academic Press and New York University Press, 1998/1999).
- ''Wealth and Poverty in the Instruction of Amenemope and the Hebrew Proverbs'' (Atlanta, GA: Scholars Press, 1994).
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