She examines the ways in which the Bible is designed to terrify its audience, in particular considering how gender shapes the Bible’s rhetoric of horror. Dr. Kalmanofsky's published articles include “Israel’s Baby: The Horror of Childbirth in the Biblical Prophets” and “The Monstrous Feminine in the Book of Jeremiah.” She also contributed to The Torah: A Woman’s Commentary, and her book Terror All Around: Horror, Monsters and Theology was published in 2008. Currently, Dr. Kalmanofsky is working on a book entitled Sister to Sister: The Literary Representation of Sisters in the Hebrew Bible.