Alice Ogden Bellis
Autor de Helpmates, Harlots, and Heroes: Women's Stories in the Hebrew Bible
Sobre El Autor
Alice Ogden Bellis is Professor of Old Testament Language and Literature at Howard University School of Divinity in Washington, D.C.
Obras de Alice Ogden Bellis
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Jeremiah (Dis)Placed: New Directions in Writing/Reading Jeremiah (Library Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies) (2011) — Contribuidor — 3 copias
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Conocimiento común
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1950
- Género
- female
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugar de nacimiento
- North Carolina, USA
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Helpmates, Harlots, and Heroes: Women's Stories in… por Alice Ogden Bellis
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
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 a book I'm glad to have in my library, but not the book I had hoped it would be.… (más)
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 a book I'm glad to have in my library, but not the book I had hoped it would be.… (más)
Feminist theology from a range of writers - particularly intersting are the sections on different ways of reading the Adam and Eve story.
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