Women's Bible Commentary, Third Edition: Revised and Updated

✍ Scribed by Carol A. Newsom (editor), Sharon H. Ringe (editor), Jacqueline E. Lapsley (editor)

• Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 682
• Edition: Updated
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The Women's Bible Commentary is a trusted, classic resource for biblical scholarship, written by some of the best feminist scholars in the field today. This twentieth anniversary edition features brand new or thoroughly revised essays to reflect newer thinking in feminist interpretation and hermeneutics. It comprises commentaries on every book of the Bible, including the apocryphal books; essays on the reception history of women in the Bible; and essays on feminist critical method. The contributors raise important questions and explore the implications of how women and other marginalized people are portrayed in biblical texts, looking specifically at gender roles, sexuality, political power, and family life, while challenging long-held assumptions. This commentary brings modern critical methods to bear on the history, sociology, anthropology, and literature of the relevant time periods to illuminate the context of these biblical portrayals and challenges readers to new understandings.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Abbreviations
Contributors
Introduction to theTwentieth-Anniversary Edition
Introduction to the Expanded Edition
Introduction to the First Edition
Contents
Abbreviations
Contributors
Introduction to the Twentieth-Anniversary Edition
Introduction to the Expanded Edition
Introduction to the First Edition
When Women Interpret the Bible
Women as Biblical Interpreters before the Twentieth Century
Hebrew Bible/Old Testament
GENESIS
Introduction
Comment
Exodus
Introduction
Comment
Leviticus
Introduction
Comment
Numbers
Introduction
Comment
Deuteronomy
Introduction
Comment
Joshua
Introduction
Comment
Judges
Introduction
Comment
Ruth
Introduction
Comment
1 and 2 Samuel
Introduction
Comment
1 and 2 Kings
Introduction
Content
1 and 2 Chronicles
Introduction
Comment
Ezra–Nehemiah
Introduction
Comment
Esther
Introduction
Comment
Job
Introduction
Comment
Psalms
Introduction
Proverbs
Introduction
Comment
Ecclesiastes
Introduction
Comment
Song of Songs
Introduction
Comment
Isaiah
Introduction
Comment
Jeremiah
Introduction
Comment
Lamentations
Introduction
Comment
Ezekiel
Introduction
Comment
Daniel
Introduction
Comment
Hosea
Introduction
Comment
Joel
Introduction
Comment
Amos
Introduction
Comment
Obadiah
Introduction
Comment
Jonah
Introduction
Comment
Micah
Introduction
Comment
Nahum
Introduction
Comment
Habakkuk
Introduction
Comment
Zephaniah
Introduction
Comment
Haggai
Introduction
Comment
Zechariah
Introduction
Comment
Malachi
Introduction
Comment
Women’s Religious Life in Ancient Israel
Introduction
The Apocrypha
Introduction to the Apocrypha
1 Esdras
Introduction
Comment
2 Esdras
Introduction
Comment
Tobit
Introduction
Comment
Judith
Introduction
Comment
The Greek Book of Esther
Introduction
Comment
The Wisdom of Solomon
Introduction
Sirach
Introduction
Comment
Baruch
Introduction
Comment
The Letter of Jeremiah
Introduction
Comment
The Greek Book of Daniel
Introduction
Comment
The Prayer of Manasseh
Introduction
Comment
1 Maccabees
Introduction
Comment
2 Maccabees
Introduction
Comment
3 Maccabees
Introduction
Comment
4 Maccabees
Introduction
Comment
Psalm 151
Introduction
Comment
New Testament
Gospel of Matthew
Introduction
Comment
Gospel of Mark
Introduction
Comment
Gospel of Luke
Introduction
Comment
Gospel of John
Introduction
Comment
Acts of the Apostles
Introduction
Comment
Romans
Introduction
Comment
1 Corinthians
Introduction
Comment
2 Corinthians
Introduction
Comment
Galatians
Introduction
Comment
Ephesians
Introduction
Comment
Philippians
Introduction
Comment
Colossians
Introduction
Comment
1 Thessalonians
Introduction
Comment
2 Thessalonians
Introduction
Comment
1 Timothy
Introduction to the Pasto ral Epistles
Introduction to First Timoth y
Comment
2 Timothy
Introduction to 2 Timoth y
Comment
Titus
Introduction to Titus
Comment
Philemon
Introduction
Comment
Hebrews
Introduction
Comment
James
Introduction
Comment
1 Peter
Introduction
Comment
2 Peter
Introduction
Comment
1, 2, and 3 John
Introduction
Comment: 1 John
Comment: 2 John
Comment: 3 John
Jude
Introduction
Comment
Revelation/Apocalypse of John
Introduction
Comment
Beyond the Canon
The Religious Lives of Women in Early Christianity
Introduction
Acknowledgments