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16 of the Best Books and Articles on: Women in the Bible

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Far More Precious Than Jewels: Perspectives on Biblical Women » Read Now
by Katheryn Pfisterer Darr. 223 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

This series brings to a wide audience important new discoveries concerning relationships of women and men in the Bible, ancient Israel, early Judaism, and early Christianity. The books explore the role of gender within the biblical tradition and document its continuing influence on subsequent life...
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This series brings to a wide audience important new discoveries concerning relationships of women and men in the Bible, ancient Israel, early Judaism, and early Christianity. The books explore the role of gender within the biblical tradition and document its continuing influence on subsequent life and thought. The books emphasize literary and historical methods as well as anthropological, archaeological, and linguistic approaches to biblical characters, gendered imagery, and the history of biblical interpretation. The books are based on thorough scholarship and can be read with pleasure by all serious readers.
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Assertive Biblical Women » Read Now
by William E. Phipps. 182 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

Most of the women described in this study were atypical biblical women. Israelite women, like women in most cultures of the world, had status principally within the home. However, exceptional women occasionally had prominent roles outside the home and dared to assert themselves. The chapters contain...
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Most of the women described in this study were atypical biblical women. Israelite women, like women in most cultures of the world, had status principally within the home. However, exceptional women occasionally had prominent roles outside the home and dared to assert themselves. The chapters contain biographical sketches, with comparisons to contemporary women's roles, of two dozen women. Beginning with Sarah of Ur and ending with Priscilla of Rome, their lives range over an era of nearly two millennia.
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Helpmates, Harlots, and Heroes: Women's Stories in the Hebrew Bible » Read Now
by Alice Ogden Bellis. 286 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

This book focuses on biblical stories about women, collected in one volume, paraphrases and interprets them from multiple and diverse scholars and in addition highlights the benefits and problems of the stories for contempory women.
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No Longer Be Silent: First Century Jewish Portraits of Biblical Women » Read Now
by Cheryl Anne Brown. 244 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

"Brown's comparative study opens new perspectives on the situation of women in a period foundational both to Judaism and to Christianity. With commendable care, she awakes the echoes of long-dead voices whose absence has distorted the sound of tradition".--Mary Ann Donovan, Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley.
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Writing the Wrongs: Women of the Old Testament among Biblical Commentators from Philo through the Reformation » Read Now
by John L. Thompson. 288 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

Phyllis Trible's Texts of Terror is a landmark among those studying women of the Bible. Focusing on stories of the maltreatment of women, Trible paved the way for subsequent feminist exegetes who have been very critical of such stories in the Bible, and who see Christianity as an unredeemably...
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Phyllis Trible's Texts of Terror is a landmark among those studying women of the Bible. Focusing on stories of the maltreatment of women, Trible paved the way for subsequent feminist exegetes who have been very critical of such stories in the Bible, and who see Christianity as an unredeemably patriarchal religion. It is commonly said that these Old Testament stories of rape, murder, torture, and abandonment passed without comment until recent times. Here, Thompson traces and analyzes various Christian interpretations of these bible stories of women. In drawing attention to views other than Texts of Terror, Thompson speaks to Christians who are battling over how the Bible ought to be read today.
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Is the Bible Bad News for Women?, in The Wilson Quarterly » Read Now
by Cullen Murphy. 20 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...education: they are the only women in the Hebrew Bible who are depicted as able...surprising that of all the women mentioned in the Bible, only two should be...
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From Eve to Esther: Rabbinic Reconstructions of Biblical Women » Read Now
by Leila Leah Bronner. 216 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

This is the first book-length attempt to focus on female biblical figures in the ancient rabbinic writings of midrash and Talmud. Primary rabbinic sources employed by the author bring new life and insight into the stories of Eve, Deborah, Hannah, Serah bat Asher, and others. As women and men today...
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This is the first book-length attempt to focus on female biblical figures in the ancient rabbinic writings of midrash and Talmud. Primary rabbinic sources employed by the author bring new life and insight into the stories of Eve, Deborah, Hannah, Serah bat Asher, and others. As women and men today attempt to reevaluate past historical models, it serves us well to understand the values and inner workings of rabbinic thinking. The examination of what the sources actually say, and not what others would like them to have said, enable reinterpretation of women's role to proceed on an honest and authentic basis. Biblical women, reclaimed with contemporary midrash, can become paradigms for our modern lives.
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Let the Oppressed Go Free: Feminist Perspectives on the New Testament » Read Now
by Annemarie S. Kidder, Luise Schotroff. 208 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

This important collection draws together fascinating recent studies by a leading European scholar of aspects of the New Testament of special interest to women. These essays, translated for the first time, will deepen feminist scholarship in the English-speaking world. Includes insightful depictions...
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This important collection draws together fascinating recent studies by a leading European scholar of aspects of the New Testament of special interest to women. These essays, translated for the first time, will deepen feminist scholarship in the English-speaking world. Includes insightful depictions of the Virgin Mary, Mary Magdalene, and the women at Jesus' grave.
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Turning from Death to Life: A Biblical Reflection on Mary Magdalene (John 20:1-18), in The Ecumenical Review » Read Now
by Dorothy A. Lee. 9 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...ODay, "John" in C.A. Newsom S.H. Ringe, eds, The Womens Bible Commentary, London, SPCK, 1992, pp.301-302, and S.M. Schneiders, "Women in the Fourth Gospel and the Role of...
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Women in the World's Religions, Past and Present » Read Now
by Ursula King. 262 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...In the past decade, probably in response to the feminist movement of our time, more attention has been given to women in the Bible. 1 One result of this new interest in...
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"Let Women Not Despair": Rabanus Maurus on Women as Prophets, in Theological Studies » Read Now
by Marie Anne Mayeski. 17 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, Entire Library

...not despair": Rabanus Maurus on women as prophets. by Marie...Maurus (ca. 776-856) was one of the very few theologians during the...understanding of the text of the Bible...
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The Feminine Unconventional: Four Subversive Figures in Israel's Tradition » Read Now
by Andre Lacocque. 144 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...0-8006-1559-X alk. paper 1. Women in the Bible. 2. Bible and feminism. 3. Sex...imagination. A man writing on women in the Bible does not itself make an Overture...others...
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Discovering Eve: Ancient Israelite Women in Context » Read Now
by Carol Meyers. 242 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

This groundbreaking study looks beyond biblical texts, which have had a powerful influence over our views of women's roles and worth, in order to reconstruct the typical everyday lives of women in ancient Israel. Meyers argues that biblical sources alone do not give a true picture of ancient...
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This groundbreaking study looks beyond biblical texts, which have had a powerful influence over our views of women's roles and worth, in order to reconstruct the typical everyday lives of women in ancient Israel. Meyers argues that biblical sources alone do not give a true picture of ancient Israelite women because urban elite males wrote the vast majority of the scriptural texts and the stories of women in the Bible concern exceptional individuals rather than ordinary Israelite women. Analyzing the biblical material in light of recent archaeological discoveries about rural village life in ancient Palestine, Meyers depicts Israelite women not as submissive chattel in an oppressive patriarchy, but rather as strong and significant actors within their families and society.
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Genesis and Gender: Biblical Myths of Sexuality and Their Cultural Impact » Read Now
by William E. Phipps. 130 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

In this provocative treatment of the Genesis stories, Phipps maintains that crucial points pertaining to gender have been overlooked because of faulty interpretations that have been accepted uncritically by society for generations. Examining the history of biblical interpretations, the study focuses...
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In this provocative treatment of the Genesis stories, Phipps maintains that crucial points pertaining to gender have been overlooked because of faulty interpretations that have been accepted uncritically by society for generations. Examining the history of biblical interpretations, the study focuses on both past impact and potential for human relations in the future, and offers a broader concept in which the creation stories are seen as reflections of the male/female relationship as well as the relationship between both genders and their creator. This clearly feminist treatment of the creation stories presents the view that after cultural prejudices are removed, powerful insights for contemporary life are revealed.
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Biblical Affirmations of Woman » Read Now
by Leonard Swidler. 384 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library
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Feminist Interpretation of the Bible » Read Now
by Letty M. Russell. 168 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

This book is the result of a collaborative effort on the part of a group of outstanding theologians, historians, and biblical scholars within the American Academy of Religion and the Society of Biblical Literature. Clarifying for themselves and others the distinctive charcter of feminist...
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This book is the result of a collaborative effort on the part of a group of outstanding theologians, historians, and biblical scholars within the American Academy of Religion and the Society of Biblical Literature. Clarifying for themselves and others the distinctive charcter of feminist interpretation, they continue the process of liberating the word that concerns the whole church..
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