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This book focuses on biblical stories about women, collected in one volume, paraphrases and interprets them from multiple and diverse scholars and in addition highlights the benefits and problems of the stories for contempory women.
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Helpmates, Harlots, and Heroes : Women's Stories in the Hebrew Bible
author
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Bellis, Alice Ogden.
publisher
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Westminster John Knox Press
isbn10 | asin
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0664254306
print isbn13
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9780664254308
ebook isbn13
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9780585280424
language
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English
subject
Women in the Bible, Bible.--O.T.--Biography, Feminist theology, Black theology.
publication date
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1994
lcc
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BS575.B45 1994eb
ddc
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221.9/2/082
subject
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Women in the Bible, Bible.--O.T.--Biography, Feminist theology, Black theology.
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Helpmates, Harlots, and Heroes
Women's Stories in the Hebrew Bible
Alice Ogden Bellis
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1994 Alice Ogden Bellis
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. For information, address Westminster/John Knox Press, 100 Witherspoon Street, Louisville, Kentucky 40202-1396.
Scripture quotations from the Revised Standard Version of the Bible are copyright 1946, 1952, 1971, 1973 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.
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.
Book design by Drew Stevens
Cover design by Frederick N. Hagan II, Fearless Designs
First edition
Published by Westminster/John Knox Press Louisville, kentucky
This book is printed on acid-free paper that meets the American National Standards Institute Z39.48 standard.
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 9 8 7 6 5
Libary of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Bellis, Alice Ogden, date. Helpmates, harlots, and heroes : women's stories in the Hebrew Bible / Alice Ogden Bellis.1st ed. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-664-25430-6 (alk. paper) 1. Women in the Bible. 2. Bible. O.T.Biography. 3. Feminist theology. 4. Black theology. I. Title. BS575.B45 1994 221.9'2'082dc20
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To my parents whose prayers undergird my life and whose faith, evident in thoughtful reflection and compassionate living, inspires and challenges me
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CONTENTS
Foreword
ix
Preface
xiii
Abbreviations
xv
Part 1: Background
1. Introduction
3
Part 2: A Story about Stories
2. The Story of Eve
45
3. The Women of Genesis
67
4. The Women of Exodus and Numbers
99
5. The Women of Joshua and Judges
112
6. The Women of 1 and 2 Samuel
140
7. The Women of 1 and 2 Kings
160
8. The Women of the Prophets
177
9. The Women of the Wisdom Literature and the Song of Songs
191
10. Subversive Women in Subversive Books: Ruth, Esther, Susanna, and Judith
206
Part 3: Reflections
11. Summary and Conclusions
229
Notes
243
Suggestions for Use in Religious Education Classes
269
Index
271
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FOREWORD
From the early nineteenth until the mid-twentieth century, challenges to the status quo regarding the role of women in society came largely from women and men outside the advanced study of religion. It was only in the 1970s that women biblical scholars began to engage in research and publication that could be defined as women's history and feminist interpretation. Throughout that decade such work continued to be suspect in academic circles as allegedly unscholarly, tendentious, and dangerous because of its potential for politicizing the university. It is a tribute to the work of many of the pioneers in this field that in the 1980s attitudes changed and such studies came to be recognized as making important contributions to knowledge about ancient women and texts and to contemporary understanding of the relations among texts, interpreters, and society. Just as feminist interpretation originated as a correction of the limitations of previously androcentric scholarship, in the 1980s womanist interpretation began to express new perspectives overlooked by white feminists.
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