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Whispering the Word - Hearing Women's Stories in the Old Testament (Paperback, Annotated edition)
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Whispering the Word - Hearing Women's Stories in the Old Testament (Paperback, Annotated edition)
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In the past 25 years there has been an explosion of work focusing
on women in the OT. Significant work has been done in attending to
critical issues raised by the patriarchal nature of the texts, but
the question of how to hear these texts as the word of God is often
left unaddressed. Many Christians who call themselves feminist
wonder if they can simultaneously maintain their faith in feminist
principles of gender equality AND their faith that God is speaking
to them and the church through the Scriptures. Jacqueline Lapsley
addresses this issue, as she reads and interprets a number of
narratives in which women are prominent in order to reflect
critically on issues of gender but with the ultimate goal of
considering how these stories may reflect God's word for us.
Lapsley proposes three strategies: (1) attending to women's words;
(2) attending to the narrator's perspective; and (3) attending to
textual worldview--which she applies to specific tex
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