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A Year of Biblical Womanhood: How a Liberated Woman Found Herself Sitting on the Roof, Covering Her Head, and Calling Her Husband Master - eBook

By: Rachel Held Evans

Thomas Nelson / 2012 / ePub

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See what happens when a thoroughly modern woman starts referring to her husband as "master" and "praises him at the city gate" with a homemade sign. With a mixture of humor and insight, compassion and incredulity, A Year of Biblical Womanhood is an exercise in scriptural exploration and spiritual contemplation. What does God truly expect of women, and is there really a prescription for biblical womanhood? Come along with Evans as she looks for answers in the rich heritage of biblical heroines, models of grace, and all-around women of valor. eBook.

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Format: DRM Free ePub
Vendor: Thomas Nelson
Publication Date: 2012

ISBN: 9781595553683
ISBN-13: 9781595553683
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New York Times Bestseller

What is “biblical womanhood” . . . really?

Strong-willed and independent, Rachel Held Evans couldn’t sew a button on a blouse before she embarked on a radical life experiment—a year of biblical womanhood. Intrigued by the traditionalist resurgence that led many of her friends to abandon their careers to assume traditional gender roles in the home, Evans decides to try it for herself, vowing to take all of the Bible’s instructions for women as literally as possible for a year.

Pursuing a different virtue each month, Evans learns the hard way that her quest for biblical womanhood requires more than a “gentle and quiet spirit” (1 Peter 3:4). It means growing out her hair, making her own clothes, covering her head, obeying her husband, rising before dawn, abstaining from gossip, remaining silent in church, and even camping out in the front yard during her period.

See what happens when a thoroughly modern woman starts referring to her husband as “master” and “praises him at the city gate” with a homemade sign. Learn the insights she receives from an ongoing correspondence with an Orthodox Jewish woman, and find out what she discovers from her exchanges with a polygamist wife. Join her as she wrestles with difficult passages of scripture that portray misogyny and violence against women.

With just the right mixture of humor and insight, compassion and incredulity, A Year of Biblical Womanhood is an exercise in scriptural exploration and spiritual contemplation. What does God truly expect of women, and is there really a prescription for biblical womanhood? Come along with Evans as she looks for answers in the rich heritage of biblical heroines, models of grace, and all-around women of valor.

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A Year of Biblical Womanhood: How a Liberated Woman Found Herself Sitting on the Roof, Covering Her Head, and Calling Her Husband Master - eBook 4.1 5 25 25

Great book. A well written book. Interesting, humorous, and thought provoking. I would recommend for all women. February 11, 2013

Good delivery, but off-message I was intrigued by this author after seeing her on The View promoting this book. I must admit my first reaction was not positive because it almost seemed if she was trying to make Christian woman look foolish, but I realized that she was playing to the wide secular audience, and I had many people tell me that her book was excellent and very substantial. I must admit I was quite disappointed because even though her author voice is very pleasant, at times even humorous, there is a vein of hostility in the book, as if the author is living in fear that non-Christian women in her age bracket may look down on her for being a Christian. I can understand this - I mean, we were all that way in our 20s, and perhaps she will outgrow this in time. But her approach to the Bible is like someone picking up a road map, scanning it, and saying, well this is wrong here, and this is wrong there, so we really can't rely on this map - but even so, I LOVE this map!" She seems to be trying to have her cake and eat it too. She says she loves the Bible and we ought to live by it, but at the same time tells us that most of us don't live by it anyway, and there are so many interpretations, that all we can be sure of is that love is the important thing, which apparently wasn't clear to the apostle Paul, because he wrote the great chapter on love (1 Corinthians 13) but in the same letter gave the Corinthians numerous moral mandates that they needed to abide by to live the Christian life, so I don't accept this author's belief that love alone matters, and that rules are not important. At times in the book she gives the impression of someone who had never read the Bible before but got introduced to it by an atheist who pointed out all the discrepancies but never got around to explaining to her why Christians even love the Bible and try to use it as a guide to life. I wish I could be more positive about a book that has a lot of fans, but I've discovered that even in my own church there are women to say they love the book and admire the author, when in fact many of them admit they never read the book but were sympathetic to the author because one bookstore chain chose not to stock the book. In other words, the book seems to be famous more for being "banned" than for being something that has touched a lot of women's lives. I'm more troubled that some women actually will read the book and share the author's own flippant approach to the Bible. February 16, 2013

Which God are we talking about here? As other reviews have noted, the author has a reasonably good writing style, so it is easy to read. Unfortunately, her approach to the Bible is troublesome. I won't cover ground that other reviews have already discussed, but I will mention that she has a rather immature view of the rules in the Bible. She claims that rules (or "commandments," to use the biblical term) make us "guilt-ridden, exhausted, and confused." I read that over a couple of times and thought: Really? When you were a child, and your mom told you not to run with scissors, or not to put your hand on a hot stove, was Mom doing that to make you "guilt-ridden, exhausted, and confused"? I know Christianity is more than rules - but I can't accept the author's view that paying attention to the rules has no part in the Christian life. As a married woman, I think she should be glad for the rule "You shall not commit adultery," and doesn't see that rule as existing solely to make her husband "guilt-ridden, exhausted, and confused." God gave us rules because - surprise! - he is our loving Father and wants to keep us from harm. "You shall not steal" is there to prevent us from snatching a good bracelet without paying for it - it's also there to prevent someone else from stealing from us. So are rules a bad thing? I don't think so. "IÃ¢ÂÂm not comfortable with a religion of rules, that doesnÃ¢ÂÂt fit my image of God.Ã¢ÂÂ I can admire her honesty, but as someone claiming to be Christian, "my image of God" needs to be grounded in the Bible, not in my own wants and desires. Let's face it, not everything in the Bible makes us "comfortable," but our walk with God is supposed to be a challenge that is worth the effort. God is loving, as Jesus made clear - God is also Judge of what we do. If we say we love God, we have to obey God - just as a child has to obey its earthly parents. That's just my take on the book. Overall, I think she has an immature approach to the Bible, and maybe she's not even aware that she's trying to create a God to her own specifications instead of meeting the real God in the Bible. The real God is challenging and at times "uncomfortable," but at least he's real, and a god concocted in our own imagination isn't. February 15, 2013

Incredible, awesome and inspiring I recommend this book to any woman. The content is light-hearted and filled with wit, while teaching context and depth to the biblical scriptures related to womanhood. Rachel puts all our fears to rest as she comically works through the ideals and traditions that tend to plague women. I thoroughly enjoyed her writing style - honest and real. She admitted her failures and mistakes and made my heart feel at ease. I cried when she failed and I cheered when she succeeded. Her year long project covers topics such as homemaking, motherhood, marriage relationships, purity issues and social justice to name a few. This book is a great read, easy and fun to wade through the adventures and mishaps Rachel finds herself in. The book also includes comments from a journal kept by her husband during the year and lots of links to more information and details on line. A fantastic book for anyone ... woman or not! This book was provided to me free of charge in exchange for my honest review. I was not required to review it positively. January 3, 2013