When Women Were Priests
10 best books like When Women Were Priests (Karen Jo Torjesen): Beyond God the Father: Toward a Philosophy of Women's Liberation, The Myth of Persecution: How Early Christians Invented a Story of Martyrdom, Pagans and Christians, After the New Testament: A Reader in Early Christianity, In the Wake of the Goddesses: Women, Culture, and the Biblical Transformation of Pagan Myth, Goddesses and the Divine Feminine: A Western Religious History, The HarperCollins Study Bible: Fully Revised & Updated, From Jesus to Christ: The Origins of the New Testament Images of Christ, In Memory of Her: A Feminist Theological Reconstruction of Christian Origins, Uppity Women of Ancient Times
| Author | Mary Daly |
| ISBN | 0807015032 |
Daly was popular at seminary, but I didn't get around to reading her until years later. I was visiting an old high school friend in Springfield, Vermont, had finished the book I'd brought along for the trip and asked his wife for recommendations from their substantial library. She suggested Daly.
If...
The Myth of Persecution: How Early Christians Invented a Story of Martyrdom
| Author | Candida R. Moss |
| ISBN | 0062104527 |
In The Myth of Persecution, Candida Moss, a leading expert on early Christianity, reveals how the early church exaggerated, invented, and forged stories of Christian martyrs and how the dangerous legacy of a martyrdom complex is employed today to silence dissent and galvanize a new generation of...
| Author | Robin Lane Fox |
| ISBN | 0670808482 |
Fox recreates the period from the 2nd to the 4th century, when the Olympians lost their dominion and Christianity, with Constantine's conversion, triumphed in the Mediterranean world.
CONTENTS
List of Maps
Preface
Pagans & Christians
Pagans & their cities
Pagan...
| Author | Bart D. Ehrman |
| ISBN | 0195114450 |
The remarkable diversity of Christianity during the formative years before the Council of Nicea has become a plain, even natural, "fact" for most ancient historians. Until now, however, there has been no sourcebook of primary texts that reveals the many varieties of Christian beliefs, practices,...
| Author | Tikva Frymer-Kensky |
| ISBN | 0029108004 |
Provides an excellent overview of goddess worship from Sumerian times to the Hellenistic period, with particular emphasis upon understanding mythological narratives, polytheism in Ancient Israel, the status of women in the ancient Near East, and debunking certain myths about temple prostitution...
Goddesses and the Divine Feminine: A Western Religious History
| Author | Rosemary Radford Ruether |
| ISBN | 0520250052 |
This landmark work presents the most illuminating portrait we have to date of goddesses and sacred female imagery in Western culture—from prehistory to contemporary goddess movements. Beautifully written, lucidly conceived, and far-ranging in its implications, this work will help readers...
| Author | Anonymous |
| ISBN | 0060786841 |
The HarperCollins Study Bible—Student Edition is the landmark general reference Bible that offers the full text of the New Revised Standard Version as well as in-depth articles, introductions, and comprehensive notes by today’s leading biblical scholars for the Society of Biblical Literature....
| Author | Paula Fredriksen |
| ISBN | 0300084579 |
In this exciting book, Paula Fredriksen explains the variety of New Testament images of Jesus by exploring the ways that the new Christian communities interpreted his mission and message in light of the delay of the Kingdom he had preached. A new introduction reviews the most recent scholarship on...
| Author | Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza |
| ISBN | 0824513576 |
So, I had high hopes for this book when I picked it up. It is a classic of feminist biblical interpretation from a world-class scholar. That said, there were just too many methodological problems, cases of special pleading, speculations passed off as fact (upon which subsequent speculations passed...
| Author | Vicki León |
| ISBN | 1567312497 |
I loved this book, full of short but fun and interesting biographies of the women who did sit idly by while history was being made around them. They all, in some "uppity" way, were part of the making of that history.
Edited to add: If you're looking for some fun historical stories, check...
A History of Women in the West. Vol 1. From Ancient Goddesses to Christian Saints
In the words of the general editors, A History of Women seeks "to understand women's place in society, their condition, the roles they played and the powers they possessed, their silence, their speech, and their deeds. It is the variety of the representations of women--as gods, Madonnas, witches,...
| Author | Renita J. Weems |
| ISBN | 0446578940 |
The "Essence" bestselling author of "Listening for God" reveals the timeless connection between today's women and their biblical sistersand how to live a better life because of it..
| Author | Leith Anderson |
| ISBN | 0764224794 |
An expanded retelling of the life of Jesus, including all the details from the Gospels in chronological order, the geopolitical scene, the historical and cultural setting, and the likely emotions and motives of those who interacted with Him. Here is a great introduction to the greatest man who ever...
| Author | Carolinne White |
| ISBN | 0140435263 |
Written between the mid-fourth and late sixth centuries to commemorate and glorify the achievements of early Christian saints, these six biographies depict men who devoted themselves to solitude, poverty and prayer. Athanasius records Antony's extreme seclusion in the Egyptian desert, despite...
She Captains: Heroines and Hellions of the Sea
| Author | Joan Druett |
| ISBN | 0684856913 |
Long before women had the right to vote, earn money, or have lives of their own, "she captains" -- bold women distinguished for courageous enterprise on the high seas -- thrilled and terrorized their shipmates, performed acts of valor, and pirated with the best of their male counterparts. From the warrior...
White Women's Christ and Black Women's Jesus: Feminist Christology and Womanist Response
| Author | Jacquelyn Grant |
| ISBN | 1555403034 |
Christology is especially problematic for feminists. Because Jesus was undeniably male and because the Christian church claims him as the unique God-bearer, feminist christology confronts the dual tasks of explaining the significance of a male God-bearer for women and creating a christological...
What Paul Really Said About Women: The Apostle's Liberating Views on Equality in Marriage, Leadership, and Love
| Author | John Temple Bristow |
| ISBN | 0060610638 |
I'm a little torn on this book, even though my rating might suggest otherwise, but ultimately it was a very enlightening read.
On the one hand, the points the author make are excellent and very convincing to me. The ties to the traditional church interpretation of these contested passages,...
Ten Lies the Church Tells Women: How the Bible Has Been Misused to Keep Women in Spiritual Bondage
| Author | J. Lee Grady |
| ISBN | 1591859948 |
The gospel was never intended to restrain women from pursuing god or to prevent them from fulfilling their divine destiny. In his revised and updated book, which includes testimonials, Lee grady boldly proclaims the truth of the gospel: that men and women are appointed by god and empowered by Him....
Why Not Women?: A Fresh Look at Scripture on Women in Missions, Ministry, and Leadership
| Author | Loren Cunningham |
| ISBN | 1576581837 |
Millions of believers are hungry for an uncompromising look at the roles of women in missions, ministry, and leadership. This book brings light, not just more heat, to the church's crucial debate through- historical and current global perspectives- a detailed study of women in Scripture- an examination...
The Dinner Party: From Creation to Preservation
| Author | Judy Chicago |
| ISBN | 1858943701 |
Judy Chicago's The Dinner Party: A Symbol of Our Heritage is a revolution in a book. Although much has changed radically in the past few decades, Chicago's book is still relevant, and it most certainly suggests that there is and always has been, room for everyone at the table. When I was 28-years-old I...
Wifework: What Marriage Really Means for Women
| Author | Susan Maushart |
| ISBN | 1582342768 |
Wifework is a fiercely argued, in-depth look at the inequitable division of labor between husbands and wives. Bolstering her own personal experience as a twice-married mother of three with substantial research and broad statistical evidence, Susan Maushart explores the theoretical and evolutionary...
How I Changed My Mind about Women in Leadership: Compelling Stories from Prominent Evangelicals
| Author | Alan F. Johnson |
| ISBN | 0310293154 |
This book features a number of autobiographical accounts as to how various persons have come to change their minds about women in leadership. Well-known Evangelical leaders—individuals and couples, males and females from a broad range of denominational affiliation and ethnic diversity—share...
Left Right & Christ: Evangelical Faith in Politics
| Author | Lisa Sharon Harper |
| ISBN | 0982930089 |
Why do people have a common faith but different political loyalties? How does the Christian faith shape how we should vote and participate in the political process?
In Left Right and Christ, authors DC Innes (on the right) and Lisa Sharon Harper (on the left) discuss and explore how the Christian...
Did God Have a Wife? Archaeology and Folk Religion in Ancient Israel
| Author | William G. Dever |
| ISBN | 0802828523 |
Following up on his two recent, widely acclaimed studies of ancient Israelite history and society, William Dever here reconstructs the practice of religion in ancient Israel from the bottom up. Archaeological excavations reveal numerous local and family shrines, where sacrifices and other rituals...
