Sex-Specific Bibles
Published February 19, 2005
They're here.
Just released this month by Zondervan are "True Identity: The Bible for Women" and "Strive: The Bible for Men."
A description of the women's version says, "Whatever you're facing, you probably share your struggles with a friend. Now imagine your friend has incredible wisdom and is available anytime day or night!"
It features 30 "Ask Me Anything" profiles of the women of the Bible, "in an interview format where the biblical woman speaks to modern readers about the life issue she faced."
The men's version takes a different approach: "A Bible specifically designed to speak to Christian men honestly and straightforwardly about their role as Christians in the face of a culture that actively works against God's will and God's way."
More: "Motivates men to redeem their God-given passions, drives, and purposes so they can live out their faith."
Mimi Haddad, president of Christians for Biblical Equality, praises the new renditions.
The embattled Lawrence H. Summers, fighting to keep his job as Harvard's president, could do worse than to carry the women's version with him when he re-enters the ring this coming Tuesday for the next round of Harvard's faculty meeting/Inquistion into his remarks on the innate differences between men and women in their aptitude for science and math.
I give Summers a 0% likelihood of keeping his job.
Why?
Because now that the wolves are out, stuff is going to be leaked that will just cumulatively overwhelm him. But I digress.
I ran across the new versions of the Bible in an article by Robin Galiano Russell that originally appeared in the Dallas Morning News on February 11 and was then syndicated nationally.
Here's a link to her piece.
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And here I thought there was just one Bible that was supposed to be the revealed word of God.
Dave
What Larry Summers needs is "Chicken Soup for the Harvard President's Soul."
I don't know... the only one I resonate with is the one that says... "You are God, also". It's simple enough for me to get the content... without the confusion and the edits.
Is the female one you talk about the one where all the 'his' references to 'God' are changed to 'her's?
I have no heard Mimi Haddad praise the fact that there are male/female "versions" of the TNIV, just the TNIV translation itself. Do you have a citation?
I was directed to this essay yesterdaday, which pointed out that the real people that Dr. James Dobson and Focus on the Family and the whole Right Wing leaders who are waging a culture war on America are really trying to target women.
They believe a woman's place is at home and subservient to her man and that starting with Roe v. Wade and certainly not ending there, they are working to remove all things that have empowered women over the years.
I originally thought....hmmmm...I didn't know what to make of it.
And then today I see on blogcritics an article attacking moms for taking kids away from dads, but of course there's no mention that the majority of home breakups are due to deadbeat dads. Dads are the victims from the evil moms now.
Roe v. Wade, which empowered women with the right of self-determination in regards to their own bodies is certainly under attack.
And now this post from you, in which you show that the woman's bible telling her to turn to her husband for leadership.
Wow. Who would have thought that this whole conservative CHristian movement was really all about stripping power away from women and putting them back in their place (I'm guessing that would be in the kitchen).
I'm certainly beginning to believe so now.
well, I think they've been working on this for awhile then.
It's all marketing, folks. Slap a different cover on it, and pitch it to women or men. Maybe a different "introduction," too. That's all.
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So these are meant to be guides to modern living based on material written over 1.000 years ago?
But 95% of all human knowledge is less than 100 years old. Some disconnect!!!
Good luck to you.