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The Women's Bible Commentary - Experience and the Critique of Tradition
The Women's Bible Commentary - Experience and the Critique of Tradition
by SPCK - Newsom, Ringe and Lapsley
Experience and the Critique of Tradition It is interesting that Job’s outburst against his wife is the last thing he says for some time. Apparently not acknowledging the presence of the three friends who come to comfort him, Job sits in silence for seven days. When he finally spe…
The Women's Bible Commentary - Family and Civil Laws
The Women's Bible Commentary - Family and Civil Laws
by SPCK - Newsom, Ringe and Lapsley
Family and Civil Laws The family laws of Deuteronomy 21–26 contain the greatest number of explicit references to women. Not surprisingly, they have garnered much attention from womanist and feminist Deuteronomic scholars…
THE WOMEN'S BIBLE COMMENTARY - Family Wisdom
THE WOMEN'S BIBLE COMMENTARY - Family Wisdom
by SPCK - Newsom, Ringe and Lapsley
Family Wisdom (Prov. 1-9) A prologue announces that the book aims to impart wisdom (1:2–7). Thick with vocabulary essential to that endeavor, the prologue defines wisdom primarily in relational terms. Wisdom requires that everyone, the young and the wise alike, listen to instruct…
THE WOMEN'S BIBLE COMMENTARY - First Lesson
THE WOMEN'S BIBLE COMMENTARY - First Lesson
by SPCK - Newsom, Ringe and Lapsley
First Lesson (Mark 8: 22- 9: 50) The two-stage healing of the blind man from Bethsaida serves both as the conclusion to the journeys back and forth across the sea in chapters 4–8 and as the introduction to the journey from Galilee to Jerusalem in chapters 8–10. Physical sight has…
The Women's Bible Commentary - First Movement: Returnees Build the Altar
The Women's Bible Commentary - First Movement: Returnees Build the Altar
by SPCK - Newsom, Ringe and Lapsley
First Movement: Returnees Build the Altar The first section describes the return from Babylon of a large contingent of exiled Judahites (or Jews). Upon their arrival, the Judahites build an altar and resume proper worship…
The Women's Bible Commentary - From the Household into the World
The Women's Bible Commentary - From the Household into the World
by SPCK - Newsom, Ringe and Lapsley
From the Household into the World Proverbs 1–9 culminates at a crossroads. The youth hears the voices of wisdom (9:3–6) and folly (9:16–17) beckoning him home for supper, each with initially identical invitations (“you who are naive, turn in here,” 9:4, 16). Wisdom and folly, it …
The Women's Bible Commentary - Gang-Rape, Murder, and Dismemberment in Times of Peace
The Women's Bible Commentary - Gang-Rape, Murder, and Dismemberment in Times of Peace
by SPCK - Newsom, Ringe and Lapsley
Gang-Rape, Murder, and Dismemberment in Times of Peace In Judges 19, an unnamed woman, identified as pilegesh, a Hebrew term of unclear social status and often translated as “concubine” but sometimes also as “secondary wife,” runs away from her husband, a Levite…
The Women's Bible Commentary - Gender, Circumcision, and Conversion
The Women's Bible Commentary - Gender, Circumcision, and Conversion
by SPCK - Newsom, Ringe and Lapsley
Gender, Circumcision, and Conversion The third movement of Acts opens with a gendered question: whether uncircumcised men may join The Way. Circumcision is a gendered question, and in non-Jewish circles it was viewed as a kind of “unmanning,” or genital mutilation…
The Women's Bible Commentary - Genealogies: The Birthing Father
The Women's Bible Commentary - Genealogies: The Birthing Father
by SPCK - Newsom, Ringe and Lapsley
Genealogies: The Birthing Father Surely 1 Chronicles 1 is the most masculine chapter in the entire Hebrew Bible. Beginning with Adam, a genealogy of sons traces the male line to Esau and Jacob, concluding with a genealogy of the kings of Edom…
The Women's Bible Commentary - Genocide and More Rape in Times of War
The Women's Bible Commentary - Genocide and More Rape in Times of War
by SPCK - Newsom, Ringe and Lapsley
Genocide and More Rape in Times of War When the other tribes realize what happened in Gibeah, they gather in Mizpah and ask the Levite: “Tell us, how did this criminal act come about?” (20:3). Identified as “the husband of the woman,” the Levite gives an answer that crucially mod…
THE WOMEN'S BIBLE COMMENTARY - God as "Father"
THE WOMEN'S BIBLE COMMENTARY - God as "Father"
by SPCK - Newsom, Ringe and Lapsley
God as “Father” (Galatians 4: 4-7) In addition to bringing about people’s transformation from the status of minor children under guardianship of the law to that of mature heirs able to enjoy their inheritance (see above on 3:23–26), the coming of Christ has other consequences as …
The Women's Bible Commentary - God as Faithful Husband, Israel as Faithful and Fruitful Wife
The Women's Bible Commentary - God as Faithful Husband, Israel as Faithful and Fruitful Wife
by SPCK - Newsom, Ringe and Lapsley
God as Faithful Husband, Israel as Faithful and Fruitful Wife In the third and final section, chapters 12–14, the prophet takes up the marital metaphor of chapters 1–3 once again. In the first section of the book, the punishment of the wife sparked her repentance and return to he…
THE WOMEN'S BIBLE COMMENTARY - God as Faithful Husband, Israel as Faithless Wife