The Women’s Bible Commentary provides a new set of answers to an old and crucial question. Throughout Christian and Jewish history, whenever the meaning of a biblical text has been disputed, ...

These women in the Bible are an inspiration to all of us—men and women alike. Times, they were ancient. We can't fully comprehend what it was like to serve Yahweh in an Old Testament culture of ...

The Bible often gets a bad rap for being “anti-women.” But an examination of what the Bible actually says—and how women are actually depicted—paints a very different picture.

« Back to Women in the Bible main page Transcript for: Women in the Bible THINK TANK WITH BEN WATTENBERG #1327 Women in the Bible FEED DATE: October 06, 2005 Naomi Harris Rosenblatt ...

A feminist furore has erupted this week over the fact that of all the words spoken in the Bible, only 1.1 percent are said by women.The stats are pretty terrible — only 93 women talk, and the ...

Probably because the English Bible translation you use obscures women’s activity, I told her, launching into another explanation. Translating Romans 16. I listened to myself lecturing that day.

Well, it turns out the Bible contains 93 women who speak, 49 of whom are named. Collectively they say a total of 14,056 words, which accounts for roughly 1.1 percent of the total words in the ...

Rather than relegate women to subservience and second-class status, she says, the Bible affirms the equality and humanity of women. Some progressives will be tempted to dismiss Alsup’s more ...

LAFAYETTE — Two millennia down the line, women in the Bible are finally getting their turn. Those forgotten, ignored and maligned will be heard when Patricia Drury Sidman’s “There’s More ...