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Writing the Wrongs: Women of the Old Testament Among Biblical Commentators from Philo Through the Reformation

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Writing the Wrongs: Women of the Old Testament Among Biblical Commentators from Philo Through the Reformation - Thompson, John L
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Phyllis Trible's Texts of Terror is a landmark among those studying women of the Bible. Focusing on stories of the maltreatment of women, Trible paved the way for subsequent feminist exegetes who have been very critical of such stories in the Bible, and who see Christianity as an unredeemably patriarchal religion. It is commonly said that these Old Testament stories of rape, murder, torture, and abandonment passed without comment until recent times. Here, Thompson traces and analyzes various Christian interpretations of ...

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Writing the Wrongs: Women of the Old Testament Among Biblical Commentators from Philo Through the Reformation 2001, Oxford University Press, USA, Oxford, England

ISBN-13: 9780195137361

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