Description
SOLD OUT: The first edition of Bible Women is out of print, though you may still find it through online book sellers. The Second Editionis now available .
Women of the Bible have been trapped in dry and dusty literary caskets for centuries. While a few women, such as Mary, Sarah, Elizabeth, and Mary Magdalene, are familiar, many of the women who speak in the Bible have long been ignored. Yet their words are part of God's Word, the Bible, for a reason. Through these women, God spoke, intervened, changed, illustrated, and proclaimed the story of redemption.
In this groundbreaking book named best Bible study of 2015 by Illumination Book Awards, Episcopal priest Lindsay Hardin Freeman identifies every woman who speaks in the Bible, providing their words, context, and historical background. We learn which women speak the most (hint: it's not Mary!) and which books of the Bible have the fewest words from women.
We hear the only conversation in the Bible between a mother and daughter (and it's not pretty), the words of a woman who eats her own child, and the triumphant exclamation of a woman telling the world about the risen Christ.
Questions at the end of each chapter encourage individual or small-group reflection about what we might learn from each of these women and how God is speaking through them to us.
Step into God's sacred circle of mothers, grandmothers, warriors, prophets, prostitutes, and murderers. You won't come out the same.
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About the Author
Lindsay Hardin Freeman is an award-winning author who is passionate about the stories of Bible women. Her works include
The Scarlet Cord: Conversations with God's Chosen Women and
The Spy on Noah's Ark and Other Bible Stories from the Inside Out.
Editorial Reviews
I read Eve today and found myself disagreeing on certain words used like "we probably wouldn't be here" and I thought that "possibly" we wouldn't but maybe we would and what would that look like, how might God have way... Thank you for making me think... for helping me to wonder. I look forward to continuing digging into a delightful book!
-BJ
The book's concept and innovative format are deceptively simple; the stories of women in the Bible, told through their own words recorded in scripture, are complex, and invite deep contemplation. I was happy to be able to introduce Bible Women to the weekly study group at my church; we're excited about both the personal reflection and the lively group discussions it will generate.
-Mary W. Cox
Frankly, I loved this book. After my study is over, I hope to use the book for some personal devotional time. It's easy to read, with the information in clear, digestable chunks. The scholarship is well done and accessible. By looking at the record of the words of Biblical women, we can get a sense of how they are involved in the larger stories. They are not absent.
-Julia Seymour, Pastor, Lutheran Church of Hope
Book Reviewer, RevGalPals
Anchorage, Alaska
The author weaves both heart and humor into her stories of the 93 women who speak in the Bible, and in her narration we discover ourselves. Like them we are broken. Like them, we find healing through God's power. The author and her research partners have accomplished a tour de force with this book. They combed the pages of the Bible, both testaments and the Apocrypha, to identify the women who speak in these pages. And they synthesized their research into a compelling analysis which the author shares of why the words these women spoke matters, even today. Especially today.
-Barbara Dundon
Lindsay Hardin Freeman has done it again. With her wonderful literary technique and exhausting amount of research, she has brought to us the gift of our historical biblical women. This book will become ragged as I enjoy the pages time and time again. Since I have found nothing like this written before, it will be given many times as gifts since it is written in a style for everyone to enjoy.
-Gayle Brinly
I'm forever changed by this book, and I'm only up to Kings. I had no idea of the suffering, loyalty, bravery, heartache, confidence of those women. WOW. It's hard to read the stories and their words. Very humbling.
-Leigh Parmer