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Woman in the Bible: An Overall View of All the Crucial Passages on Women’s Roles is unavailable, but you can change that!

The debate on women’s roles often goes on without a careful look at what the Bible actually says. Mary J. Evans seeks to fill this gap by surveying all the relevant Old and New Testament texts. In her treatment of the Biblical texts, she presents all the major options and deduces a reasonable conclusion, presenting her position clearly but not dogmatically. She also supplies helpful information...

neither of these things, therefore the force of the argument is lost. In fact, there is no indication in Genesis 2 itself that temporal priority is of any particular significance. The chapter appears to fit well into the ring construction of Hebrew thought, where the central concerns of a unit appear at the beginning and end.11 The two creatures, male and female, are thus seen as parallel, the order disparaging neither one. It is true that Paul in 1 Tim. 2:13 refers to the fact that Adam was created
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