Bible Commentaries written by women
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Does anyone have a list of Bible Commentaries written by women (who would identify as evangelical) ?
Thank you
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Here is a blog post. https://cwoznicki.com/2022/03/08/new-testament-commentaries-written-by-women/ Best Commentaries has this resource. https://bestcommentaries.com/library/1143/commentaries-by-female-scholars/ And here is the Women's Bible Commentary 3rd edition in Logos https://www.logos.com/product/16101/womens-bible-commentary-3rd-ed
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Just look at a given series and pick the women authors. Someone might have a list. I personally recommend that you get the best commentaries regardless. I can recommend Karen Jobes and Margaret Thrall as two excellent commentators that immediately come to mind..
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Jeannine K. Brown is outstanding as well.
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Thanks all this is helpful [:)]
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Hi P. A., we have a handful listed here: http://www.logos.com/bible-resources-by-women. I hope that we'll add much more to this page I linked at some point, but not right away.
There are, of course, many other commentaries by women on Logos. One shortcut to help: you can look through the list of Mobile Ed professors and click through for the other resources they've written. Another way to find commentaries by women is to check specific series—if they published one woman, it's likely they published more. The Story of God Bible Commentary series (SGBC) is an example.
Hope this helps, and happy studying!
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Hi P. A., we have a handful listed here: http://www.logos.com/bible-resources-by-women.
Thanks for this!
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1. Marion Ann Taylor: https://www.logos.com/search?query=Marion%20Ann%20Taylor&sortBy=Relevance&limit=60&page=1&ownership=all&geographicAvailability=availableToMe
2. Karen H. Jobes: https://www.logos.com/search?query=karen%20H%20jobes&sortBy=Relevance&limit=60&page=1&ownership=all&geographicAvailability=availableToMe
These are my 2 favorites and perhaps the only good ones I know 👍😁👌
DAL
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I might recommend Pheme Perkins and Irene Nowell.
Perkins wrote commentaries in Paideia and Interpretation, as well as several introductory books to the bible. Strangely, her Reading the New Testament, 3rd edition, which we use in my seminary, is not available in Logos, although FL has (I think?) a great relationship with the publisher and this book's companion volume, Reading the Old Testament (by a different author), is available in Logos...
Sr. Irene Nowell, OSB, has written and contributed to a number of commentaries and also books on women of the Old Testament and praying the Psalms, the latter of which I studied as part of my monastic formation. I wish her Pleading, Cursing, Praising: Conversing with God through the Psalms from Liturgical Press would be made available in Logos (that, and her more recent Wisdom: The Good Life).
They're not evangelical, but they're well-read by evangelicals (obviously, Paideia and Interpretation are read by many walks of faith).
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Thanks All this very help
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An African-American scholar should also be mentioned. Mignon R. Jacobs for her excellent commentary for NICOT
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I'm just curious why? Do women write different commentaries than men?
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Great question Roger
I would simply say because it is good to have female bible scholars represented.
Whether a bible scholar is good or bad is not determined by their gender (male or female), but rather how they handle the word of God (exegesis and hermeneutics etc.
Sometimes females can have insights, that we we blokes miss [;)]
If someone is gifted regardless of their gender (male or female) I am willing to learn from them.
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I haven't checked any of the lists posts above, but there's Mariam Kamell's commentary on James (ZECNT, co-authored with Craig Blomberg). I suppose it would be hard to know what parts of it were written by her and what parts by Craig.
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Rosie Perera said:
I haven't checked any of the lists posts above, but there's Mariam Kamell's commentary on James (ZECNT, co-authored with Craig Blomberg). I suppose it would be hard to know what parts of it were written by her and what parts by Craig.
I lover her! I have her video lectures with Craig. I find myself paying attention more when she lectures than when Craig lectures 👍😁👌
DAL
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DAL said:Rosie Perera said:
I haven't checked any of the lists posts above, but there's Mariam Kamell's commentary on James (ZECNT, co-authored with Craig Blomberg). I suppose it would be hard to know what parts of it were written by her and what parts by Craig.
I lover her! I have her video lectures with Craig. I find myself paying attention more when she lectures than when Craig lectures 👍😁👌
She really is a good teacher. I never had any classes with her because I'd graduated from Regent College before she was hired there. But we've had her preach for my church a few times. Always a treat!
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I almost forgot: Lynn Cohick: https://www.logos.com/search?query=Lynn%20Cohick&sortBy=Relevance&limit=60&page=1&ownership=all&geographicAvailability=availableToMe
DAL
PS. Very smart lady!
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This month's free book on commentaries has a section that gives some women authors a look. I haven't had time to dig into the recommendations, but free makes this a no-risk venture.
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Good spot mab
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I would gladly second many names mentioned already, but may I add Margaret Thrall, whose commentary on 2nd Corinthians for ICC is one of the best technical commentaries out there, as well as Sophie Laws, who wrote a good commentary on James for the Black's series?
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mab said:
This month's free book on commentaries has a section that gives some women authors a look. I haven't had time to dig into the recommendations, but free makes this a no-risk venture.
I saw that, but they’re mixed with “people of color.” They’re not separated like women first and then the people of color. In fact, Justo Gonzalez is not of color, he’s Cuban-American and is white skin, so I wonder what criteria was involved in including him there in that section 🧐 🤨 🤔
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DAL said:
In fact, Justo Gonzalez is not of color, he’s Cuban-American and is white skin, so I wonder what criteria was involved in including him there in that section
Interesting. A lot of people assume that all Hispanics are of darker/brown complexion and lump them all together in POC. This Cuban-American writer has a good explanation and response to that.
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Rosie Perera said:DAL said:
In fact, Justo Gonzalez is not of color, he’s Cuban-American and is white skin, so I wonder what criteria was involved in including him there in that section
Interesting. A lot of people assume that all Hispanics are of darker/brown complexion and lump them all together in POC. This Cuban-American writer has a good explanation and response to that.
LOL, don’t let an Argentine person read that. They put themselves in a class of their own 😂 to them we’re the hispanics or latins…they’re Argentinos. Anyway, interesting article, subjective to his own understanding, but good nonetheless.
DAL
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DAL said:
Anyway, interesting article, subjective to his own understanding, but good nonetheless
The author's name is Vanessa and has a photo that looks like a woman, so I assume she uses female pronouns... [;)]
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DAL said:
In fact, Justo Gonzalez is not of color, he’s Cuban-American and is white skin, so I wonder what criteria was involved in including him there in that section
Not calling you out DAL but you provided the opportunity to educate some other forum members, for which I thank you. It is "silly" to consider color of skin as a marker of anything. A colleague from a family of eleven children had a Cajun father and a Black mother - the children ranged from white to very black in their skin tone ... but they all belonged to the same ethnic/cultural group. Justo Gonzalez is or is not a person of color depending upon his cultural/ethnic self-identification and nothing more.
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MJ. Smith said:DAL said:
In fact, Justo Gonzalez is not of color, he’s Cuban-American and is white skin, so I wonder what criteria was involved in including him there in that section
Not calling you out DAL but you provided the opportunity to educate some other forum members, for which I thank you. It is "silly" to consider color of skin as a marker of anything. A colleague from a family of eleven children had a Cajun father and a Black mother - the children ranged from white to very black in their skin tone ... but they all belonged to the same ethnic/cultural group. Justo Gonzalez is or is not a person of color depending upon his cultural/ethnic self-identification and nothing more.
Very true I knew a guy from South Africa whose skin complexion was dark, and here in America he would be called black, but he said he was not black, he said he was “color;” but others darker than him were the real blacks. So go figure. To argentines the rest of latin Americans or hispanics are Latinos or Hispanics, but they are not. Different worldview I guess.
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Roger Pitot said:
I'm just curious why? Do women write different commentaries than men?
When I notice that my library does not include resources written by a group of people, then I have no idea what they write. I have to carefully find resources written by them to learn what they write. Over time, I have been trying to build the most diverse library possible.
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DAL said:
I knew a guy from South Africa whose skin complexion was dark, and here in America he would be called black, but he said he was not black, he said he was “color;” but others darker than him were the real blacks. So go figure.
The term "colored" has a very specific meaning in South Africa. It isn't about the skin color so much as it is about a multiracial ethnicity. Black South Africans are the indigenous South Africans. That includes Zulu, Xosa, Basotho, Swazi, and other peoples; and yes, then tend to have very dark skin, though even they have variations such as albinism. White South Africans, also called Afrikaners, are those descended from the Dutch and other European colonizers, and yes they tend to have very light skin. Colored (spelled "coloured" in South Africa), as used during Apartheid, was "by law anyone who is of multiracial heritage or determined to be Coloured by the government." Nowadays it is more of a cultural and historical identity and can include people with little or no multiracial heritage. There is more about the definition here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_groups_in_South_Africa
Inter-marriage between Whites and Blacks was illegal during Apartheid, so Coloureds were particularly outcast. An excellent book which explains this dynamic, with humor and personal stories (wonderfully narrated by the author in the Audible version), is Born a Crime by Trevor Noah, who is a "Coloured" South African.
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