Edited by Hershel Shanks

"Informs the reader of four prominent feminist theologians' views on the prominent and current theological controversy."
--Bible Collector's World

This book, developed from a popular symposia sponsored by the Biblical Archaeology Society and the Smithsonian Institution, offers readers exciting, new ways to deepen their appreciation and understanding of biblical texts. Four outstanding scholars--Phyllis Trible, Tikva Frymer-Kensky, Pamela J. Milne and Jane Schaberg--look closely at a number of prominent women in the Bible, including Eve, Miriam and Mary Magdalene, as well as the men to whom they relate.

BAS, 1995. Softcover, 120pp.
ISBN 978-1-880317-41-9

Authors

Tikva Frymer-Kensky, Professor of Hebrew Bible at the Divinity School of the University of Chicago and author of In the Wake of the Goddesses
Pamela J. Milne, Associate Professor of Hebrew Bible, the University of Windsor, Ontario, and contributor to The NRSV: Harper's Study Edition
Jane Schaberg, Professor of Religious Studies, University of Detroit-Mercy, and author of The Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit: Matthew 28:19
Phyllis Trible, Baldwin Professor of Sacred Literature, Union Theological Seminary, New York, and author of God and the Rhetoric of Sexuality

Table of Contents

Participants
Introduction by Hershel Shanks
Eve and Miriam: From the Margins to the Center
by Phyllis Trible
Goddesses: Biblical Echoes
by Tikva Frymer-Kensky
No Promised Land: Rejecting the Authority of the Bible
by Pamela J. Milne
New Testament: The Case of Mary Magdalene
By Jane Schaberg
Panel Discussion
Bibliography and Related Readings
Acknowledgments