This just popped up on my radar, anyone familiar with it.
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The Womans Bible
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No, I have heard of it but haven't seen it.
Right now I have and will start reading this as soon as I can:
"A landmark event: the complete Hebrew Bible in the award-winning translation that delivers the stunning literary power of the original.
A masterpiece of deep learning and fine sensibility, Robert Alter’s translation of the Hebrew Bible, now complete, reanimates one of the formative works of our culture. Capturing its brilliantly compact poetry and finely wrought, purposeful prose, Alter renews the Old Testament as a source of literary power and spiritual inspiration. From the family frictions of Genesis and King David’s flawed humanity to the serene wisdom of Psalms and Job’s incendiary questioning of God’s ways, these magnificent works of world literature resonate with a startling immediacy. Featuring Alter’s generous commentary, which quietly alerts readers to the literary and historical dimensions of the text, this is the definitive edition of the Hebrew Bible."
Right now I have and will start reading this as soon as I can:
The Hebrew Bible: A Translation with Commentary: Alter, Robert: 9780393292497: Amazon.com: Books
The Hebrew Bible: A Translation with Commentary [Alter, Robert] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The Hebrew Bible: A Translation with Commentary
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"A landmark event: the complete Hebrew Bible in the award-winning translation that delivers the stunning literary power of the original.
A masterpiece of deep learning and fine sensibility, Robert Alter’s translation of the Hebrew Bible, now complete, reanimates one of the formative works of our culture. Capturing its brilliantly compact poetry and finely wrought, purposeful prose, Alter renews the Old Testament as a source of literary power and spiritual inspiration. From the family frictions of Genesis and King David’s flawed humanity to the serene wisdom of Psalms and Job’s incendiary questioning of God’s ways, these magnificent works of world literature resonate with a startling immediacy. Featuring Alter’s generous commentary, which quietly alerts readers to the literary and historical dimensions of the text, this is the definitive edition of the Hebrew Bible."
Nope. Willing to give us a book report?
It was written by a lady named Elizabeth Cady Stanton, as I understand it is thought of as the begining of modern day feminism, and was an extraction of all biblical passages refering to women for reinterpertation by women. It was meant to be a direct challenge to the patriarchy.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton???
That’s all that you had to say.
It can only be fish wrap.
Friend of yours?
Dead for years but look her up. She was at the forefront of the women’s liberation movement in the 1800s. A radical of radicals that even the women’s movement eventually distanced from.
A professor of mine made us study this movement while I was in college. She and others like her personified the shifting religious movement at that time. Women had a lot to do with the development of Mormonism, Jehovahs Witness, Christian Science and other movements that strayed from orthodoxy.
Seventh Day Adventism was also a woman led movement from the same era. That movement has course corrected to more orthodoxy but started out pretty interestingly.
I look at anything written by women as questionable at best to begin with.The word you're looking for here is heretic.
Anything that relates to doctrinal teaching, unless it falls within the Titus ll guidelines I will just avoid entirely.
If it relates to a woman's proper biblical place it takes biblical scrutiny and approval from my husband to take advice or guidance from older women.
At this point i am hesitant to pick up fiction books written by women. These almost without exception feed into the feminist narrative. Christian fiction is more subversive and aggregious than mainstream. I am also closely scrutinizing any books I allow my children to have exposure to. Subversive messaging is everywhere.
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There was a book I found in the thrift store wild recently called "But God Remembered" by Sandy Eisenberg Sasso. It is some of the most blatant and in your face feminist retellings of biblical stories I've ever seen. It is focused on women and written for CHILDREN. It starts out with Lillith and every male biblical character in it is demasculated and are the villains of every story.
I had found a women's book of bible verses by topic awhile back. There was Nothing about submission or a woman's role in the family/biblical structure. It was all about love and the special place woman are elevated to in creation.
I love to read. It is one of my passions, but having a patriarchal/biblical view of life makes it hard to take almost any book at face value or ability to enjoy without being aware of the subversive or blatant feminist narratives in them. Both fiction and non fiction.
I had found a women's book of bible verses by topic awhile back. There was Nothing about submission or a woman's role in the family/biblical structure. It was all about love and the special place woman are elevated to in creation.
I love to read. It is one of my passions, but having a patriarchal/biblical view of life makes it hard to take almost any book at face value or ability to enjoy without being aware of the subversive or blatant feminist narratives in them. Both fiction and non fiction.
Even Beth Moore has gone down the path of embracing feminism and inserting it into her classes.
Myself, any book review that mentions "empowerment" for me means I avoid that book.
I tend to be cautious of anyone using liberal feminist buzzwords like empowerment, nurturing, tolerance, diversity, education (when they mean indoctrination), and etc.
You always manage to keep things simple.The word you're looking for here is heretic.
Women teachers tend to end up on that path. Especially if they start branching out into any topics outside of women's roles.
In the church culture there is the mindset that women are more spiritual then men. This leads to women inverting their roles taking over spiritual headship of their families. They may claim to be submitting to their husbands but if he isn't spiritual enough, or if he isn't leading spiritually as they think he should they will go over and around him for the 'church'.
Exactly! I have seen this over and over again. But only in matters of headship within the home. At work, those same women clearly understand that their boss is their boss even if their boss is making a poor or misguided decisions. With their boss they will continue to show respect even if they know that the outcome will not play well.
I say this to illustrate that it is clearly within their power to be respectful and follow their head even while in disagreement.
Men, meanwhile, need to learn to lead and take responsibility for their decisions. To many men will allow their wives to lead and then blame them for bad outcomes. Men need to learn that they are the responsible party regardless of whether they initiate the action or if they simply allow the action.
As men begin to realize that they are the responsible party regardless, they will take a more active role in decision making and leadership.
One of the most chilling moments I’ve had reading is when I read that the table that the Seneca Falls declaration was written on was the same table that first seance that started the transcendentalist movement was held on.
I have moved away from some of my Pentecostal upbringing but there is truth in some of it.
Didnt know that about the Seneca Falls table. Whoooaaa
And yes, much of Pentecostalism can be traced back to women as well during that same era.