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An amazing book of power, insight, and challenge"Combining feminist readings of familiar biblical texts with personal stories, Julie Faith Parker helps us engage the Bible with both mind and heart--to learn its stories, explore theological ideas, question common assumptions, and grow in our faith."An amazing book of power, insight, and challenge. Parker inspires compelling conversations that illuminate Eve and all her descendants."--Phyllis Tr...

This ground-breaking volume examines the presentation and role of children in the ancient world, and specifically in ancient Jewish and Christian texts. With carefully commissioned chapters that follow chronological and canonical progression, a sequential reading of this book enables deeper appreciation of how understandings of children change over time. Divided into four sections, this handbook first offers an overview of key methodological a...

My So-Called Biblical Life gives fresh perspectives to stories from the Bible, imbuing them with powerful, honest emotion. The editor's translation of biblical passages grounds twelve original narratives, which engage the reader and invite a personal response. Imagine sending away your precious daughter to be a concubine. Suppose your family's survival depended on the sacrifice of your brother's life. Picture Jesus looking you in the eye and t...

My So-Called Biblical Life gives fresh perspectives to stories from the Bible, imbuing them with powerful, honest emotion. The editor's translation of biblical passages grounds twelve original narratives, which engage the reader and invite a personal response. Imagine sending away your precious daughter to be a concubine. Suppose your family's survival depended on the sacrifice of your brother's life. Picture Jesus looking you in the eye and t...

Arguing that the writers of the Hebrew Bible recognized children as different from adults and shaped their stories accordingly, the author introduces a new methodology of childist interpretation and applies it to the Elisha cycle and its forty-nine child characters.