Alice Ogden Bellis

A good book, easy to read, provides plenty of food for thought. Bellis gives short explanations of various Feminist readings of each character. What is missing is comprehensive readings of any of them.

It's a good place to start if you are working on any of the individual women, but not the place to finish.

It isn't a book to use for a study group on women of the Bible - but a good book for the leader to have read. A lot of the points brought up would be good to use for discussion.

All in all show more a book I'm glad to have in my library, but not the book I had hoped it would be. show less

Feminist theology from a range of writers - particularly intersting are the sections on different ways of reading the Adam and Eve story.

NO OF PAGES: 281 SUB CAT I: Bible Stories SUB CAT II: Women's Issues SUB CAT III: DESCRIPTION: The author addresses Eve and other women in the book of Genesis, Exodus, Numbers, Joshua, Judges, 1 and 2 Samuel, 1 and 2 Kings; women of prophetic literature; wisdom literature; and subversive women in Ruth, Esther, Susanna, and Judith.NOTES: SUBTITLE: Women's Stories In The Hebrew Bible

In this comprehensive book, . . ., the author shares the work of many feminist biblical scholars who have examined women's stories in the last 25 years. These stories are powerful accounts of women in the [Hebrew Bible]-- stories that have profoundly affected how women understand themselves." from book jacket