Books by Jr. Clanton

Examines eight women's stories in the Bible, demonstrating how later readers interact with the stories to construct sometimes fanciful, sometimes faulty views of these women. This book helps broaden our awareness of the influence of these later readings on how we understand biblical women.

The story of Susanna and the Elders is one of the most interpreted and reproduced tales from the "Apocrypha". Arguing that the story of Susanna was written in the first century BCE, this book presents a narrative-rhetorical reading of Susanna, and illustrates that the story uses sexual anxiety and desire to set up a moral dilemma for Susanna.