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Traditional biblical scholarship (in the shape of historical criticism, form criticism, source criticism and so forth) has often perpetuated limited ideas of the role and function of women in the Bible.
People like Phyllis Bird 11 and Leonard Swidler 12 examined a wide range of texts of importance to women—the creation stories of Genesis 1–3; the laws about marriage, divorce, sexual behavior and religious observance in Exodus, Leviticus and Deuteronomy; and the good-woman/bad-woman imagery in Proverbs 1–9.
Oct 25, 2017 · There was relatively little scholarship focusing on women, gender, and sexuality in the Hebrew Bible until the 1970s, when modern feminist biblical scholarship first started to emerge as an outgrowth of second-wave feminism.
As the Bible is in every woman's hands, and she is trained to believe it "the word of God," it is impossible to describe her feelings of doubt and distrust, as she awakes to her status in the scale of being; the helpless, hopeless position assigned her by the Creator, according to the Scriptures.
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A society’s laws signal its values. We instinctively measure a society’s moral character by what it protects, prohibits, and punishes. We exercise this instinct – this driving sense of “should” – whenever we read and interpret the laws of the Old Testament. But what happens when our own culture skews how we read and interpret the Old Testament? In ...
To the Western, individualist reader, the cultural differences within Old Testament law can read like an affront to one’s autonomy and sense of self. Consider the response of most college-aged women to the idea of an arranged marriage. To the Western individualist, the practice smacks of chattel trade, the depersonalizing sale of a daughter’s sexua...
Cheryl B. Anderson, Women, Ideology, and Violence: Critical Theory and the Construction of Gender in the Book of the Covenant and the Deuteronomic Law (London: T&T Clark International, 2004, 78-80. Harold C. Washington, “‘Lest He Die in Battle and Another Man Take Her:’ Violence and the Construction of Gender in the Laws of Deuteronomy 20–22,” in G...
Mar 3, 2014 · Keri Folmar talks about the importance of women’s Bible study and gives seven mistakes that are often made when ladies gather for study.
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Aug 17, 2021 · Modern practitioners of Judaism and Christianity often turn to the Bible for stories concerning women and their roles in ancient religion and society. It is important...
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