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Title: Anti-female slant
Review: I teach an adult Sunday school class of varied ages and backgrounds. We had wanted to study the women of the Bible. I looked in a variety of places for such a book, and was pleased to find this one, which seemed to take a scholarly view of the topic. Not so. We find this book hopelessly chauvinistic. But worse, the author does no real research into the women he selected; he simply gives us his interpretation of what little information exists in scripture. In the chapter on Mary (mother of Jesus) he totally ignores Mary's development as a true follower of her son, and instead goes into a rant about the Catholic worship of Mary. I will say that the book has provoked a lot of critical thinking on our part, because we are so angered by the author's version that we are forced to scrutinize the scripture for evidence to build our own view of each woman.
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