Most of the 20 essays are from the Recovering Female Interpretation of the Bible Consultation at the November 2008 meeting of the Society in Boston. Covering interpretations on texts of terror and on Pauline hierarchical texts, they examine such topics as the articles by Robert Knetsch and Amand Benckhuysen on trusting in the God of their fathers, Judges 11 in the thought of Arcangela Tarabotti (1604-52), 19th-century feminist responses to the laws in the Pentateuch, Antoinette Brown Blackwell as a pioneering exegete and Congregational minister, Lucy Meyer's biblical interpretation and the deaconess movement, and Mary Baker Eddy as a liberating interpreter of the Pauline corpus. The Society of Biblical Literature publishes the paperbound edition; Brill publishes the hardbound. Annotation 2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
