On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 15:38:03 -0700 (PDT), Deborah Harrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <huge snip> > > So, back to the cut'n'pasting of what scriptures to > accept: much of what Jesus supposedly said and did, > and what occurred in the earliest post-crucifixion > days, calls for both men and women 'to love God and > love your neighbor as yourself' in near-equality. > What preceded and followed are another matter > entirely, particularly WRT women. > > Debbi > Maybe I'll Just Be A Heretic...Maru ;)
Here is the Thomas Jefferson Bible, where he cut and pasted the four Testaments leaving out the parts he felt were later graftings of superstition. http://www.narcosislabs.org/TheJeffersonBible.html or http://www.sullivan-county.com/news/deist1999/jeff_bible.htm or http://www.angelfire.com/co/JeffersonBible/index.html It is available at Amazon with commentary but is so short it can just be downloaded. Since at least 1892 there have been Women's Bible commentaries. The 1998 'Women's Bible Commentary Expanded' is popular. 'Women in Scripture: A Dictionary of Named and Unnamed Women in the Hebrew Bible, the Apocryphal/Deuterocanonical Books and the New Testament' is illuminating since many of the women in the Bible are not named. Harvard Divinity School's Elizabeth Schussler Fiorenza has a lot of standard works on women in the Church. Or some people, not me, might just go all the way to 'Texts of Terror' or 'The Role of Xianity in the Oppression of Women'. - Gary Denton -- I am a heretic Maru #1 on google for liberal news _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
