Revised and Updated
Carol A. Newsom,
Sharon H. Ringe,
and
Jacqueline E. Lapsley
EDITORS
Westminster
John Knox Press
louisville • kentucky
© 1992, 1998, 2012 Westminster John Knox Press
First edition published 1992. Second edition published 1998.
Third edition
Published by Westminster John Knox Press
Louisville, Kentucky
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Scripture quotations from the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible are copyright © 1989 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. and are used by permission. The editors have given authors the interpretive freedom to replace the NRSV’s rendering of the name of God as Lord with YHWH, if they wished to do so.
See acknowledgments, p. 648, for additional permission information.
Book design by Drew Stevens
Cover design by Lisa Buckley
Cover illustration: Des cleres et nobles femmes. Ca. 1450 Mss. Text. Spencer collection, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations. Used by permission.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Women’s Bible commentary / Carol A. Newsom, Sharon H. Ringe, and Jacqueline E. Lapsley,
editors.—3rd ed., twentieth anniversary ed.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 978-0-664-23707-3 (alk. paper)
1. Bible—Commentaries. 2. Women—Middle East—History. 3. Women—Rome—History.
I. Newsom, Carol A. (Carol Ann), 1950– II. Ringe, Sharon H. III. Lapsley, Jacqueline E., 1965–
BS491.3.W66 2012
220.7082—dc23
2012011194
Dedicated to Jane D. Schaberg,
who died during the preparation of this volume,
and to the memory of Tikva Frymer-Kensky,
a contributor to the original edition.
An illustration from the fifteenth-century manuscript Des cleres et nobles femmes depicts Erythraea wearing a blue gown and turning the page of a manuscript on the lectern of a golden altar decorated with icons and books. A rich library with ornately clasped books is visible within the Gothic architectural frame.
Introduction to the Twentieth-Anniversary Edition
Introduction to the Expanded Edition
Introduction to the First Edition
WHEN WOMEN INTERPRET THE BIBLE
Sharon H. Ringe
WOMEN AS BIBLICAL INTERPRETERS BEFORE THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
Carol A. Newsom
Susan Niditch
Anne W. Stewart
Sarah, Hagar, and Their Interpreters
Elaine James
Nyasha Junior
Elaine James
Hannah K. Harrington
Katharine Doob Sakenfeld
Carolyn Pressler
Amy C. Cottrill
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About Women’s Bible Commentary (3rd Edition)In the critically acclaimed best-seller Women’s Bible Commentary, an outstanding group of women scholars introduced and summarized each book of the Bible and commented on those sections of each book that have particular relevance to women, focusing on female characters, symbols, life situations such as marriage and family, the legal status of women, and religious principles that affect relationships of women and men. Now, this expanded edition provides similar insights on the Apocrypha, presenting a significant view of the lives and religious experiences of women as well as attitudes toward women in the Second Temple period. This expanded edition sets a new standard for women’s and biblical studies. |
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