All The Women Of The Bible

by M.L. del Mastro

Book Overview

Have you ever asked yourself these questions in relation to biblical women? Many times we recognize their names - Naomi, Ruth, Sara, Delilah, Jezebel, to name a few - but we can't quite recall their... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0785818960
• Release Date: November 2009
• Publisher: Castle Books
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 1.5" x 6.4"

Customer Reviews

Replacement book

I like this book because tells the different women mentioned in bible and their roll.

A Christmas Gift

Beautifully written book, complete with Biblical references. I already have it; this is a Christmas gift for my daughter.

great book

well recommonded for anyone to read, even if you are not a into that short of book, I found it very interesting to read about little known women of the bible beacuse the bible is so male oriented also got this copy for my sister as I already had one and did not want to give that one away.

Must read

This is a complete work and good reference. I loved reading it because it separated the men from the women. You can see who did great things and who did more naughty things in the Bible.

Wonderful Reading!!

I love the stories of the Bible and I love the fact that someone has pinpointed the Women of the Bible to show they were as much servants of God as the men were.

The subject matter counts

To the reader who was SHOCKED by the author's treatment of biblical subjects involving women: do you allow your children to read the Bible at all? If you do, and if they ask you why it has so many stories involving the mistreatment of women, how do you answer? The Bible is a product of its time. The work in question is a classical study of the treatment of women in the Bible. It's not reading matter for most children; neither is it a suitable work for children to learn about the role of women in the Bible. This work is a serious attempt to treat the tales written about women in the Bible in a style of "historical fiction," taking the viewpoint of a narrator of the action. The result is an enlightening vision of a society where, for the most part, women were property with a status of just below slaves. In reading the Bible, one is struck by how the authors uniformly take for granted the typical lack of status possessed by women. Women were not typically written about in favorable ways. Indeed, the only reason for the mention of Dinah, Jacob's daughter, is her rape by the son of the ruler of the neighboring town. The reader is then truly astounded, after reading further about the lowly status of women, to learn that the ancient Hebrews subsequently built protections for women into their laws and customs, thus rejecting the treatment of women by all of their surrounding cultures. It is with this viewpoint that one should approach the reading of this work. It retells the tales of the Bible of events that occurred in everyday life in the ancient cultures of the Near East in terms with which a modern reader can identify, and in so doing, exposes the horrors of a woman's life during those times. It was the rejection of womens' subjugation and lack of any legal status that the Hebrews, and later, Israelites, sought; the result was a code of law (in Leviticus, primarily) that gave protections to women unheard of and unimagined in neighboring cultures. This is what the book is about, and women can rejoice in its telling. This is a serious book. It's not a book for kids.