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Jaime Clark-Soles

What was it like to be a woman in the biblical period? It depended, in part, on who you were: a queen, a judge, a primary wife, a secondary wife, a widow, a slave, or some other kind of "ordinary woman." In Women in the Bible, Jaime Clark-Soles investigates how women are presented in Scripture, taking into account cultural views of both ancient societies as well as our own. While women today are exercising leadership in churches across a number of denominations and our scholarly knowledge related to women in the Bible has grown immensely, challenges remain. Most of Christendom still excludes women from religious leadership, and many Christians invoke the Bible to circumscribe women's leadership in the public square and in the home as well. It is more urgent than ever, therefore, to investigate closely, honestly, and intrepidly what the Bible does and doesn't say about women.

In a multipronged approach, Clark-Soles treats well-known biblical women from fresh perspectives, highlights women who have been ignored, and recovers those who have been erased from historical memory by particular moves made in the transmission and translations of the text. She explores symbolic feminized figures like Woman Wisdom and the Whore of Babylon and reclaims the uses of feminine imagery in the Bible that often go unnoticed. Chapters focus on themes of God's relationship to gender, women and violence, women as creators, and women in the ministry of both Jesus and Paul. Clark-Soles aims to equip clergy and other leaders invested in the study of Scripture to consider women in the Bible from multiple angles and, as a result, help people of all genders to live God's vision of better, more just lives as we navigate the challenges of our complex, globally connected world.

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Table of Contents
Series Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Of Canaanites and Canines: Matthew 15
2. God across Gender
3. Women and Violence in the Bible: Truth Telling, Solidarity, and Hope
4. Women Creating
5. The Book of Ruth: One of the "Women's Books" in the Bible
6. Magnificent Mary and Her Magnificat: Like Mother, Like Son
7. Women in Jesus’s Life and Ministry
8. Jesus across Gender
9. Women in Paul’s Ministry
10. The Muting of Paul and His Female Coworkers: Women in the Deutero-Pauline Epistles
Conclusion: In the End, Toward the End (Goal): Truth, with Hope
Works Cited
Scripture Index
Subject Index

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Interpretation: Resources for the Use of Scripture in the Church

Women in the Bible: Interpretation: Resources for the Use of Scripture in the Church

Patrick D. Miller

In this volume, Patrick D. Miller studies the Ten Commandments as ancient document and as contemporary guide. With careful attention to each commandment in its original context, this book shows the reader the modern relevance of these basic principles, as well as how the ideas of each commandment influenced the New Testament. More than an intellectual exercise, The Ten Commandments applies the call of the commandments to modern-day issues.

Westminster John Knox Press is proud to introduce an exciting new phase in the renowned Interpretation commentary series. Instead of focusing on individual books of the Bible, these new volumes will focus on the Bible's most enduring passages and most vital themes, bringing to these topics the insight and faithful wisdom that are longtime hallmarks of the Interpretation series. This expanded Interpretation series will be an excellent resource for all those who teach, preach, and study the Bible.

The Ten Commandments: Interpretation: Resources for the Use of Scripture in the Church