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Summary: A provocative look at the women of Genesis through 2 Kings.
Review: In this thought-provoking book, Fewell and Gunn carefully examine the lives of (primarily) the female characters in the Bible's first story, Genesis through 2 Kings. Fewell and Gunn show that the "subject" -- not the topic, but rather the viewpoint -- of this long story is the adult Israelite male. This has significant repercussions for the treatment of the women in the story. The women's lives and stories are shaped to serve the interests of the male subject. Yet even with this shaping of interests, the stories still contain the "traces" that can support and even promote a critique of the dominant male ideology the stories seem calculated to serve. This book is an eye-opener and should be read and re-read by anyone seeking to understand and fully appreciate the complex dynamics of human interaction, and human-divine interaction, in the first nine books of the Bible.(Please note that although the Amazon.com database lists three authors for this book, there are in fact two. "Fewell, Donna N." is a misspelling of "Danna Nolan Fewell" that has somehow become attached to the database record as if the name of a third author.)
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Summary: A provocative look at the women of Genesis through 2 Kings.
Review: In this thought-provoking book, Fewell and Gunn carefully examine the lives of (primarily) the female characters in the Bible's first story, Genesis through 2 Kings. Fewell and Gunn show that the "subject" -- not the topic, but rather the viewpoint -- of this long story is the adult Israelite male. This has significant repercussions for the treatment of the women in the story. The women's lives and stories are shaped to serve the interests of the male subject. Yet even with this shaping of interests, the stories still contain the "traces" that can support and even promote a critique of the dominant male ideology the stories seem calculated to serve. This book is an eye-opener and should be read and re-read by anyone seeking to understand and fully appreciate the complex dynamics of human interaction, and human-divine interaction, in the first nine books of the Bible. (Please note that although the Amazon.com database lists three authors for this book, there are in fact two. "Fewell, Donna N." is a misspelling of "Danna Nolan Fewell" that has somehow become attached to the database record as if the name of a third author.)
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