Vindicating the Vixens: Revisiting Sexualized, Vilified, and Marginalized Women of the Bible

Gain a greater understanding of gender in the Bible through the eyes of a diverse group of evangelical scholars who assert that Christians have missed the point of some scriptural stories by assuming the women in them were "bad girls."

• Did the Samaritan woman really divorce five husbands in a world where women rarely divorced even one?
• Did Bathsheba seduce King David by bathing in the nude?
• Was Mary Magdalene really a reformed prostitute?

While many have written studies of the women in the Bible, this is a new kind of book - one in which an international team of male and female scholars look afresh at vilified and neglected women in the Bible. The result is a new glimpse into God's heart for anyone, male or female, who has limited social power.