Wise Women of the Bible
Author : Susan Pigott
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 47,41 MB
Release : 2018-01-18
Category :
ISBN : 9781936347704
King David with the Wise Woman of Tekoa
Author : Larry Lyke
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 32,85 MB
Release : 1997-10-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0567170519
Book Description
Assesses the multivocal quality of 2 Samuel 14 as a result of the many historical and social processes that formed the Hebrew Bible as a whole.
Women in Scripture
Author : Carol Meyers
Publisher : HMH
Page : 1017 pages
File Size : 41,92 MB
Release : 2000-03-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0547345585
Book Description
“This splendid reference describes every woman in Jewish and Christian scripture . . . monumental” (Library Journal). In recent decades, many biblical scholars have studied the holy text with a new focus on gender. Women in Scripture is a groundbreaking work that provides Jews, Christians, or anyone fascinated by a body of literature that has exerted a singular influence on Western civilization a thorough look at every woman and group of women mentioned in the Bible, whether named or unnamed, well known or heretofore not known at all. They are remarkably varied—from prophets to prostitutes, military heroines to musicians, deacons to dancers, widows to wet nurses, rulers to slaves. There are familiar faces, such as Eve, Judith, and Mary, seen anew with the full benefit of the most up-to-date results of biblical scholarship. But the most innovative aspect of this book is the section devoted to the many females who in the scriptures do not even have names. Combining rigorous research with engaging prose, these articles on women in the Hebrew Bible, the Apocryphal/Deuterocanonical Books, and the New Testament will inform, delight, and challenge readers interested in the Bible, scholars and laypeople alike. Together, these collected histories create a volume that takes the study of women in the Bible to a new level.
Women of the Bible
Author : Peter DeHaan
Publisher : Spiritually Speaking Publishing
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 40,64 MB
Release : 2019-11-09
Category :
ISBN : 9781948082174
Book Description
How does God really feel about women? Listen to some people in church. Watch what they do. Study their attitudes. It may cause you to assume God views women as second class. Far from it. The truth is, the Bible has story after story about how fascinating women are. They're more nuanced than men, have profound insights people often overlook, and can teach wisdom that everyone needs to hear. In Women of the Bible, Peter DeHaan, PhD., author and lifetime student of the Bible, digs deep into these Bible stories to uncover how 135 women-yes, 135 amazing women-rise above their circumstances in a society that pushes them down. He explores the women who exercised whatever influence they had-often in creative ways-and what we can learn from them. Each woman's story ends with thought-provoking questions for personal introspection or group discussion. Then, if you wish to dig deeper, explore related Bible passages. In this book, you'll discover how to ?celebrate your victories?embrace your virtue?have more compassion for our world's victims ?avoid the errors of the vicious?and be inspired to pursue a more meaningful life It's time for a change. It's time for a fresh perspective. It's time for every woman-and man-to discover powerful, life-changing truths from the Women of the Bible. Buy Women of the Bible today to spark a personal transformation.
The David Story: A Translation with Commentary of 1 and 2 Samuel
Author : Robert Alter
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 38,32 MB
Release : 2009-10-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0393070255
Book Description
"A masterpiece of contemporary Bible translation and commentary."—Los Angeles Times Book Review, Best Books of 1999 Acclaimed for its masterful new translation and insightful commentary, The David Story is a fresh, vivid rendition of one of the great works in Western literature. Robert Alter's brilliant translation gives us David, the beautiful, musical hero who slays Goliath and, through his struggles with Saul, advances to the kingship of Israel. But this David is also fully human: an ambitious, calculating man who navigates his life's course with a flawed moral vision. The consequences for him, his family, and his nation are tragic and bloody. Historical personage and full-blooded imagining, David is the creation of a literary artist comparable to the Shakespeare of the history plays.
Reading the Women of the Bible
Author : Tikva Frymer-Kensky
Publisher : Schocken
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 41,81 MB
Release : 2008-12-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0307490009
Book Description
Reading the Women of the Bible takes up two of the most significant intellectual and religious issues of our day: the experiences of women in a patriarchal society and the relevance of the Bible to modern life.
Wise, Strange and Holy
Author : Claudia V. Camp
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 25,75 MB
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1841271667
Book Description
The relationship of the Strange Woman and Woman Wisdom, separate but inseparable in Proverbs 1-9, is the book's analytic starting point, becoming a hermeneutical lens for viewing other texts of strangeness-of gender, ethnicity, sexuality, and cultic activity. Wisdom and strangeness mark the narratives of Samson and Solomon, while priestly literature sets strangeness against holiness. Miriam and Dinah, sisters of cultic eponyms Aaron and Levi, are Israelite women defiled or unclean, made strange. Priestly and wisdom constructions of gendered strangeness intersect, illuminating the ideologies of identity that develop in the postexilic period and that shape the beginnings of the biblical canon. >
Parable and Story in Judaism and Christianity
Author : Clemens Thoma
Publisher : Paulist Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 48,46 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780809130870
Book Description
A scholarly study of the parables and stories in biblical tradition to help discover the common heritage of Christians and Jews.
Parables and Conflict in the Hebrew Bible
Author : Jeremy Schipper
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 48,82 MB
Release : 2009-04-13
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 0521764629
Book Description
Schipper examines the intimate relationship between parables and conflict in the Hebrew Bible. Challenging the scholarly consensus, he argues that parables do not function as appeals to change their audience's behavior.
Smooth Words
Author : Carole R. Fontaine
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 40,57 MB
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0826460240
Book Description
Fontaine explores the social roles of women as depicted within the book of Proverbs, as well as the character archetypes and patriarchal ideologies which undergird the sages' portrayal. Using feminist folklore methodologies and performance studies, the author explores an alternative paradigm for understanding women's relationship to wisdom traditions in the ancient Near East, using parallel texts, later midrash and extrabiblical re-presentations of biblical women associated with wisdom. Fontaine is thus able to show that women were culturally authorized 'performers' of the family-based wisdom traditions of teaching, economic problem-solving, and care-giving, and that these roles provided them with a platform to use their acknowledged wisdom in public roles.
