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A Year of Biblical Womanhood

How a Liberated Woman Found Herself Sitting on Her Roof, Covering Her Head, and Calling Her Husband 'Master'

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A Year of Biblical Womanhood

By: Rachel Held Evans
Narrated by: Amanda Opelt, Daniel Evans
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Have you ever wondered what God truly expects of women? Is there really a prescription for biblical womanhood? Does the Bible's idea of womanhood have a place in modern Christianity? New York Times bestselling author Rachel Held Evans embarks on a year-long study of what it means to live by the standards of biblical womanhood.

Strong-willed and independent, Evans couldn't sew a button on a blouse before she embarked on a radical life experiment--a year of biblical womanhood. Intrigued by the traditionalist resurgence that led many of her friends to abandon their careers to assume traditional gender roles in the home, Evans decided to try it for herself, vowing to take all of the Bible's instructions for women as literally as possible for a full year.

Along the way, Evans explores the rich heritage of scriptural heroines, models of grace, and all-around women of valor that we come to know in the Bible. She consults with women who practice these ancient biblical mandates in their own lives--from an Orthodox Jewish woman who changed the way Evans reads the Bible to an Amish community that taught her the true meaning of modesty.

In A Year of Biblical Womanhood, Evans shares her courageous and often humorous journey of:

  • exploring what a "woman's place" is according to the Scriptures
  • applying the Bible's teachings to day-to-day life, sometimes to literal extremes
  • focusing on virtues like domesticity, obedience, beauty, submission, and grace
  • developing a "Biblical Woman's Ten Commandments" to serve as a guide for daily living

Join Evans as she dives deep into the lives of the women we meet in Scripture and redefines what it means to live biblically.

©2012 Rachel Held Evans (P)2020 Thomas Nelson
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An interesting way to re-examine what we think we know about the Bible. This is a fascinating and sometimes funny project

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This book was not quite what I expected. RHE discusses the Ten Commandments for her year, a new challenge each month, and her experiences thereof, but she also includes many biblical stories of women with an interesting new slant. This was not a theology book but had a good dose of scripture in it, and made me view some old well known stories in a different way.

I particularly enjoyed a bit about the epistles - remember they are letters, who were they addressed to at the beginning, what were they written to address, what would make us assume they are to apply to all people at all times. I loved the addition of the bits where Paul writes in 1 Corinthians 1 that he is glad he didn’t baptise anyone, before remembering he actually baptised the household of Stephanus, and in 2 Timothy 4 where he asks Timothy to bring the cloak he forgot and his scrolls. So human, but it is scripture, so does this mean we are also to eternally bring Paul his cloak if it is written as a command?! Shows the nonsense of following everything to the letter ‘because it is biblical’.

I feel very sad to have ‘met’ RHE only after she has died. She seems like a fabulous woman of valour (read the book and you will understand), who clearly helped many people who may have lost their faith, instead reimagining it into something better and deeper. Her sister Amanda Opelt does an amazing job of narrating - she should take up reading audiobooks, a lovely voice to listen to.

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I loved every moment of this book and see myself rereading it over and over.

A gift to all!

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Kept me listing the whole way through only breaking because it was way passed when I normally go to bed and I needed to sleep.

Brilliant, we will miss Rachel's wise teachings

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What an amazing woman of God was Rachel Held Evans. This book was my first introduction to her works and prompted me to buy them all. Her reasoned, thoughtful, thorough and honest approach has made me recommend her to fellow believers who sometimes don't know if they are doing Christianity 'properly'. Rachel - Eshet Chayil!

Inspirational

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A profound, funny and moving account of the author’s exploration of ‘Biblical womanhood’. As an Anglican, whose experience of church is far more based on liturgy, ritual and the rhythms of the church year than Rachel’s tradition of US Evangelicalism, I was intrigued and fascinated by this look into a very different religious culture. I am familiar with some of the beliefs she talks about through my interest in US Christian fundamentalism, and Rachel does a wonderful job of exploring the rigid, narrow attitudes that attempt even now to keep women in the home, out of the workplace, silent in church, and erased from the Bible itself. She is a beautiful writer and a generous, expansive thinker. Her knowledge of the Bible is deep, and both intellectual and poetic.

The cultural differences Rachel explores in this book were made even more interesting to me because she herself is steeped in a Bible-believing church culture that is both compelling and horrifying. Throughout her writing, her intellectual and spiritual honesty shines as she tries with an open heart and mind to follow the challenge she has set herself.

Even if you are quite knowledgable about the Bible, there is a lot to learn from this book, but more than that, it is a true spiritual journey. It is of course made much more poignant by knowledge of Rachel’s tragically premature death and the cutting short of her life when she had so much to give.

The narration, by Rachel’s sister and husband, is excellent. I am fussy about narration and Amanda Opelt’s is some of the best I have heard. It’s emotional in places, as it should be.

Overall this is a wonderful book. Rachel Held Evans was a woman of valor indeed.

A beautiful journey

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