Women in scripture
Subtitle: a dictionary of named and unnamed women in the Hebrew Bible, the Apocryphal/Deuterocanonical books, and the New Testament
By: Carol Meyers, general editor ; Toni Craven and Ross S. Kraemer, associate editors.
Contributors: Meyers, Carol L.; Craven, Toni.; Kraemer, Ross Shepard, 1948-
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 592
Subjects: Women in the Bible -- Indexes; Women in the Bible -- Biography -- Dictionaries
Genres: Indexes.; Biography; Dictionaries.
Description: "The editors have taken on the task of identifying every woman and group of women mentioned in the Bible, whether named or unnamed, well known or heretofore not known at all. The result is more than eight hundred articles that examine the numerous women who have often been obscured by the androcentric nature of the biblical record and by centuries of translation and interpretation that have paid little or no attention to them."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 567-590) and index.