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Dancing Girls, Loose Ladies, And Women Of The Cloth: The Women In Jesus' Life
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 226.0922082
EAN: 9780826416124
ISBN: 0826416128
Label: Continuum International Publishing Group
Manufacturer: Continuum International Publishing Group
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 196
Publication Date: 2004-10
Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group
Studio: Continuum International Publishing Group
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Editorial Review:
The women in Jesus life are a raucous and rowdy bunch, including "riotous" foremothers, "loose women," and "distressed daughters of Israel." Reading these new ways of interpreting women in the Gospels, male New Testament scholars have discovered liberating perspectives.
In seven scintillating studies, Spencer explores among others the genealogy of Matthews Gospel to discover the riotous yet righteous nature of Jesus foremothers, slave girls and prophetic daughters in Luke-Acts, and women leading men in the Gospel of Mark 57.
Scott Spencer, a virtuoso young New Testament scholar, provides his own lively forays into reading the Gospels through womens eyes. He shows what it is like for a man to read stories about the women in Jesus life from a new perspective.
Spencer is an able and inventive scholar whose broad-ranging insights and engaging style make his work very accessible.
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Rating:  - The content did not live up to the title.
Despite an intrigueing title, the book read like a doctoral dissertation. It was full of important schoolarly references, but hard to follow and dry. I would have prefered the more informal style the title implied.
Rating:  - Seeing the Bible in a new light
This book fascinated me, as known and lesser known accounts of events took on a clarity rarely discerned in conventional study. F. Scott Spencer brings his considerable biblical knowledge to bear on unravelling truths about women related to or otherwise connected to Jesus. His fresh approach with feminist sensibilities and psychological awareness helped me "know" these women who are so often passed over as auxilliary characters in the story. Frequent references to the original Greek or Hebrew ... Read More
Rating: - An ideal book for Biblical study groups or simple individual contemplation
Expertly written by F. Scott Spencer (Professor of New Testament at Baptist Theological Seminary at Richmond), Virginia, Dancing Girls, Loose Ladies, and Women of the Cloth is a collection of seven studies with regard to women referred to in the New Testament, from Jesus' foremothers to slave girls, prophetic daughters, leaders, "loose women", "distressed daughters of Israel" and more. Dancing Girls, Loose Ladies, and Women of the Cloth invites lay readers and Biblical scholars alike to re-examine ... Read More
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