The Word According to Eve: Women and the Bible in Ancient Times and Our Own, by Cullen Murphy

Osiek, Carolyn, Shofar

The Word According to Eve: Women and the Bible in Ancient Times and Our Own, by Cullen Murphy

Literary editor Cullen Murphy has written an engaging book that has received more than its share of attention in the literary world, given the massive numbers of books written in the last twenty years on the same subject by biblical scholars. This is not a work of scholarship but of journalism, written in the narrative and descriptive style of the interview rather than the carefully informative style of an academic investigation and evaluation, and consistently using secondary rather than primary sources. In the introduction, the author refers to feminism's encounter with religion as the …

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Publication information: Article title: The Word According to Eve: Women and the Bible in Ancient Times and Our Own, by Cullen Murphy. Contributors: Osiek, Carolyn - Author. Journal title: Shofar. Volume: 19. Issue: 2 Publication date: January 31, 2001. Page number: 142. © Not available. Provided by ProQuest LLC. All Rights Reserved.

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