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Books (140.8700) Women's Bible Commentary, Third Edition: Newly Revised and Updated
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| Author: |
Newsom, Carol A. |
| Publisher: |
Westminster John Knox Press, 2012 |
| Length: |
704 pages |
| Heading: |
020 — Bible Study
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| Subjects: |
Bible - Commentaries - General; Bible / Commentaries; Christianity-Bible Commentary; Women / Middle East / History; Women / Rome / History |
| Location: |
BS491.3 .W66 2012 |
| # Copies: |
1 |
| ISBN/ISSN: |
9780664237073
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| Description: |
The Women's Bible Commentary is a trusted, classic resource for biblical scholarship, written by some of the best feminist scholars in the field today. This twentieth anniversary edition features brand new or thoroughly revised essays to reflect newer thinking in feminist interpretation and hermeneutics. It comprises commentaries on every book of the Bible, including the apocryphal books; essays on the reception history of women in the Bible; and essays on feminist critical method. The contributors raise important questions and explore the implications of how women and other marginalized people are portrayed in biblical texts, looking specifically at gender roles, sexuality, political power, and family life, while challenging long-held assumptions. This commentary brings modern critical methods to bear on the history, sociology, anthropology, and literature of the relevant time periods to illuminate the context of these biblical portrayals and challenges readers to new understandings.
This groundbreaking commentary gathers the work of many outstanding women scholars who offer a general introduction for each book of the Bible and then focus on portions that deal with female characters, symbols, life situations such as marriage and family, the legal status of women, and religious principles that affect relationships of women and men.
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| Age Groups: |
None specified.
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