Smeared Type

by Nancy Werking Poling

also author of Out of the Pumpkin Shell

My most recent book just came off the press: Had Eve Come First and Jonah Been a Woman (Wipf & Stock, pub.).

Following is the blurb and two endorsements that appear on the cover:

In Hebrew scripture men always get the exiting roles: leader, prophet, war hero. Convinced that women, too, need powerful stories that can inform them about who they are in relation to God, Nancy Werking Poling has imagined biblical men as women. A female Samson tells of the elders trying to take away her power; Nochat (Noah), who is trying to raise God-honoring children in violent times, rebukes God for destroying creation: Mosiah leads abused sisters to freedom; a female Jacob struggles with her capacity for deceit and destruction. Readers are sure to find inspiration in a creative approach to scripture that incorporates women’s wisdom, suffering, and courage.

“Nancy Werking Poling has created for readers a rare gift: a woman’s perspective on the biblical story that is not only deeply imaginative but also surprises us at every turn! With fresh and startling insight, her biblical women upend our old, “normative” assumptions about the nature of God Most High—and thus re-create the ancient impact of scripture as it was first heard. Beautifully written and full of ‘Aha’s!’”

Gail Anderson Ricciuti

Associate Professor of Homiletics, Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School

“Through an incisive and gripping retelling of the biblical stories Nancy Werking Poling allows contemporary women to find in them the voice and power that they have been denied by the original authors. These stories are vehicles for liberation, for they not only reinvent the old world but also imagine a new one. The book is a must for all those who are engaged in the construction of a more just and inclusive society.”

Osvaldo D. Vena

Professor of New Testament Interpretation, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary

As of now the book is only available through the publisher, Wipf & Stock, which offers a 20% discount ($12.80).

http://wipfandstock.com/store/Had_Eve_Come_First_and_Jonah_Been_a_Woman

It will soon be on Amazon and bookstore websites.

Tags: biblical fiction, feminist theology, Gail Ricciuti, Hebrew Bible, Nancy Werking Poling, Old Testament, Osvaldo Vena, Religion & Spirituality, women's Bible stories

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