Article January 24, 2005 Issue

'IT'S NOT YOUR FATHER'S HEBREW BIBLE'

By Patricia Kadick Photographs by Mark Thayer

"The phenomenal success of Dan Brown's novel The DaVinci Code suggests that men and women share a deep hunger to know where women fit into Biblical texts, and into the history that follows." So said Anne Braude, of Harvard Divinity School, when she introduced the guests taking part in a December 9 panel discussion on women and spirituality in a series sponsored by The Mary Baker Eddy Library for the Betterment of Humanity in Boston.

The topic for the evening, "It's not your father's Hebrew Bible," was discussed by authors with strikingly different approaches.

• Tikva Frymer-Kensky is a professor of Hebrew Bible, and of the history of Judaism. She also teaches rabbis the Torah in a context that includes both the presence and the absence of women in Hebrew scripture. Her latest book is Reading the Women of the Bible: A New Interpretation of Their Stories.

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