Suggestion: Genesis Commentary by Dianne Bergant, CSA
I'm surprised this isn't yet in Logos/Verbum as some other work by Dianne Bergant has made it in.
Here is a taster of the Genesis commentary: http://www.litpress.org/Content/Site145/FilesSamples/146566978081468_00000050713.pdf
It's from Liturgical Press, and I'd have thought would be of interest to a fairly wide ranging set of people. Please could this be added?
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Rayner said:
I'm surprised this isn't yet in Logos/Verbum as some other work by Dianne Bergant has made it in.
Here is a taster of the Genesis commentary: http://www.litpress.org/Content/Site145/FilesSamples/146566978081468_00000050713.pdf
It's from Liturgical Press, and I'd have thought would be of interest to a fairly wide ranging set of people. Please could this be added?
The "samples" were two commendations by women. I have no objection to women commenting on scripture since some do very well, but the sample read "At last a commentary on Genesis by a woman" as though that made a significant difference. A good commentary is a good commentary regardless of who wrote it (even if it were to be Jacobus Arminius). We live in an age of political correctness where there must be a representative number of each party in a group. I find that rather disgusting.
george
gfsomselיְמֵי־שְׁנוֹתֵינוּ בָהֶם שִׁבְעִים שָׁנָה וְאִם בִּגְבוּרֹת שְׁמוֹנִים שָׁנָה וְרָהְבָּם עָמָל וָאָוֶן
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George Somsel said:Rayner said:
I'm surprised this isn't yet in Logos/Verbum as some other work by Dianne Bergant has made it in.
Here is a taster of the Genesis commentary: http://www.litpress.org/Content/Site145/FilesSamples/146566978081468_00000050713.pdf
It's from Liturgical Press, and I'd have thought would be of interest to a fairly wide ranging set of people. Please could this be added?
The "samples" were two commendations by women. I have no objection to women commenting on scripture since some do very well, but the sample read "At last a commentary on Genesis by a woman" as though that made a significant difference. A good commentary is a good commentary regardless of who wrote it (even if it were to be Jacobus Arminius). We live in an age of political correctness where there must be a representative number of each party in a group. I find that rather disgusting.
I think perhaps you missed the list of contents, the introduction and chapter 1. Well worth a read.
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George ... I stand corrected. I clearly remember my thought .... 'At last, a commentary on Esther by a man.' True. Of course I'd always wondered, since reading one man's commentary is really all that's needed.
But contrary to your correctness, perspective has much to do with a writer's background. Especially true when plastic surgery on one of the genders for eternal salvation was an important feature of early Christians. Well, gee .... Abraham's boys. That's also why to get a Moody perspective, I reach for Bart.
"If myth is ideology in narrative form, then scholarship is myth with footnotes." B. Lincolm 1999.
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Rayner said:George Somsel said:Rayner said:
I'm surprised this isn't yet in Logos/Verbum as some other work by Dianne Bergant has made it in.
Here is a taster of the Genesis commentary: http://www.litpress.org/Content/Site145/FilesSamples/146566978081468_00000050713.pdf
It's from Liturgical Press, and I'd have thought would be of interest to a fairly wide ranging set of people. Please could this be added?
The "samples" were two commendations by women. I have no objection to women commenting on scripture since some do very well, but the sample read "At last a commentary on Genesis by a woman" as though that made a significant difference. A good commentary is a good commentary regardless of who wrote it (even if it were to be Jacobus Arminius). We live in an age of political correctness where there must be a representative number of each party in a group. I find that rather disgusting.
I think perhaps you missed the list of contents, the introduction and chapter 1. Well worth a read.
You are correct. After I saw the recommendation based on its being by a woman I was too annoyed to continue. It shouldn't matter whether it is by a male or a female. The question is "Is it good." This is akin to the question of whether a female should be elected President. Does it really matter? Or is it more important whether the person elected is qualified and has a reasonable program?
george
gfsomselיְמֵי־שְׁנוֹתֵינוּ בָהֶם שִׁבְעִים שָׁנָה וְאִם בִּגְבוּרֹת שְׁמוֹנִים שָׁנָה וְרָהְבָּם עָמָל וָאָוֶן
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George Somsel said:
You are correct. After I saw the recommendation based on its being by a woman I was too annoyed to continue. It shouldn't matter whether it is by a male or a female. The question is "Is it good." This is akin to the question of whether a female should be elected President. Does it really matter? Or is it more important whether the person elected is qualified and has a reasonable program?
To some extent, I agree with you, but I do think that sometimes gender affects content. As it happens, I suggested this book, not because its author was a woman, but because I came across it when looking for something Genesis related and then discovered that it wasn't in Logos. I'd rather not buy on Kindle etc. etc.
(I also wonder whether it's just a coincidence that the only people who have been elected as Presidents of the United States that are qualified and have reasonable programs are men? I mean, if they'd all been women, would people still ask, "does it really matter?").
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George Somsel said:
The "samples" were two commendations by women. I have no objection to women commenting on scripture since some do very well, but the sample read "At last a commentary on Genesis by a woman" as though that made a significant difference. A good commentary is a good commentary regardless of who wrote it (even if it were to be Jacobus Arminius). We live in an age of political correctness where there must be a representative number of each party in a group. I find that rather disgusting.
George, George you aren't thinking. Liturgical Press is associated with St. John's Abbey, a Benedictine monastery affiliated with the American-Cassinese Congregation. I can assure you that neither Catholics in general, Benedictines in specific or the American-Cassinese Congregation are gender neutral organizations. I mean they could have said something like "At last a commentary on Genesis by a Missionaries of Charity member" - would that be as offensive? [:P]
Seriously, I understand your reaction, but one often has to make allowances for isolated older Catholic men in religious orders.[A] Okay, I know a couple of Dominican priests who would take offense at my comment. [6]
Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."
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