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Title: The Women's Bible Commentary - expanded by Carol A. Newsom, Sharon H. Ringe, Ringe Newsom ISBN: 0-664-25781-X Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press Pub. Date: August, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.95

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Average Customer Rating: 3.33 (3 reviews)

Rating: 2
Summary: Some good insights but not very scholarly
Comment: This book will provide it's readers with a broad overview of women in scripture and many related issues. The writers of this piece have done well to realize some potential insights which other contemporary scholars may have missed. However, the views presented in this book are far from balanced, and posesses an unfortunate feminist slant. The scholarship of this work is also very poor, and essentially may be boiled down to the opinions of the authors.

Rating: 4
Summary: Fair, honest, insightful, and sound biblical scholarship.
Comment: Contrary to what some may believe from the title, the Women's Bible Commentary does not show favoritism. It simply addresses individual needs/issues and/or individual audiences -- and it does so in a manner that is at least as fair, honest, and genuinely scholarly as most other one-volume Bible commentaries. Of hundreds of Bible commentaries that we have in the BibleTexts Online Commentary library, not one is so absolutely exhaustive that it includes everything that all of the other commentaries have. Each commentary includes material that its editors consider to be most important within the commentary's intended own scope and within their own editorial perspective -- whether that commentary is a one volume commentary of the entire Bible, a multi-volume commentary of a single book of the Bible, or a multi-volume commentary of the entire Bible. The Women's Bible Commentary not only includes much of the same basic information found in other high quality one-volume commentaries, but it also provides valid information and valuable insights that are not found in other commentaries. It is an excellent biblical commentary worthy of inclusion in any Bible student's library.

Rating: 4
Summary: Refreshing to read commentary from women's viewpoint.
Comment: Since most commentaries are written by men, it was a pleasure to read women's views. This has been needed for a long time. The book was written for a laywoman to understand and to learn from.

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