Description
Exploring six Gospel texts through which girls encounter Jesus, Frances Taylor Gench encourages us to view these stories anew throughout the eyes of latest biblical scholarship. Summarizing and making accessible the work of a diversity of feminist students even as also engaging some of the more traditional voices of the past, she examines each and every story’s language, structure, and literary and socio-cultural context, and recounts many traditional and latest interpretations. Within the process, she opens up new possibilities for reading these texts. Includes useful questions for discussion.