This is my new book, published next month. Theologian, Dr. Margaret Barker, kindly called it fascinating. She wrote: "In the last thirty years or so there have been many books about the women who appear in the Bible, but never one like this. Maggy Whitehouse reads the texts as a Kabbalist, which must have been nearer to the way biblical texts were read in the time of Jesus than many recent approaches. Modern fashions in scholarship have brought us literary criticism, rhetorical criticism, and above all the scepticism that is born of an over-literal reading of ancient texts. Philo, however, a highly educated Jew in Egypt in the mid-first century CE, would have recognised Maggy Whitehouse’s approach to the Hebrew Bible. She enables her readers to look at the women of ancient Israel in the way the first Christians would have known them."
Posted on: Tue, 11 Jun 2013 09:45:37 +0000
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