Wisdom from Women in the Bible

Rating:
Summary: As good as a house party
Review: Edith Deen packs in a whole passel of learning and yet makes it fun in a scholarly way. The women she cites are drawn from her history-making book ALL THE WOMEN IN THE BIBLE, which pinned down approximately 310 women named and un-named in the Bible. In the WISDOM book, Miss Deen picked about 50 of them, usually the wiser ones but not entirely. Deborah, who is one of my favorites as well as being the inspiration for film star Deborah Kerr's first name, comes off the best.

Speaking of films, I wonder if Miss Deen had any acquaintance with the late Margaret Mitchell, because many of Deen's pithier recaps of Bible heroines might have come right from the pages of GONE WITH THE WIND. The two authors have a lot in common, and I'm sure the people at HarperCollins are happy about that fact. Prospective mothers also might find this book a source of some interesting and neglected names for their blessed events to be.

If you like a Texas twang served up with your theological speculations, this is the book for you. It's a classic in the way that Ann Landers gives good advice--by the ladle-full.