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The Making of Biblical Womanhood:
How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth
The Making of Biblical Womanhood:Beth Allison Barr
Paperback: Brazos Press, 2021
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The Making of Biblical Womanhood has made such a profound impression on me that I don’t believe I will ever again read the Bible (or the Reformation) the same way. (I will also check my Bible translation.) I will read its verses, of course, but Barr’s scholarship impresses upon me the importance of biblical and historical context, of reading the Bible through a lens of understanding, of knowing its audience and the world in which it was written. Barr taught me to read like a historian — to not just take words at face value, but to consider them in light of their context. Jesus, for example, “chose women as witnesses for his resurrection.” But this was an ancient world that “didn’t accept the word of a woman as a valid witness.” How extraordinary. How revolutionary.
How free.
- from our review of The Making of Biblical Womanhood
by Laura Barringer
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