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Editing Notes for Women in the Bible

This article tends to make overgeneralized, and often very biased, statements that are not fully explained. For example, in the introductory paragraph, a claim was made that the bible is the only book in which women are perceived as human beings and as an equal status to that of men. Has the author read every book that has been published in this century in order to make this claim? Unlikely. And even though, many female characters within the Bible resist the sort of male oppression, women were also presented as beings who had no will of their own, must remain silent, and obey both their husbands and God without question.

There are also troubling statements such as: "The views of women presented in the Hebrew Bible are complex and often ambivalent." [1] I am not understanding the meaning of this statement, especially with the use of complex and ambivalent in the same sentence, but the author does not go on to explain in what ways the women indicate these characteristics. This article needs more explanation of terms and characteristics that they are placing here in order to give the readers a clear understanding of the arguments that they are trying to convey.

The article also mentions the fact that Adam and Eve's creation story is narrated from different perspectives but fails to provide the reader with information as to who is doing the telling of those stories and how that might be significant to understanding the different roles of the sexes. Krmmiller (talk) 22:03, 29 January 2017 (UTC)

Edits that I would make to the Women in the Bible Article

I would remove the sentence: "According to classicist Edith Hamilton, the Bible is the only book in the world up to our century which looks at women as human beings, no better and no worse than men" because it is a huge assumption for someone to make that the Edith Hamilton would have read every single book ever published in order to be able to make this statement.

Creation Narratives Section I would either eliminate or attempt to clarify whose "perspectives" that the different creation narratives are given from. At the end of the small paragraph I would add: Despite the fact that God had assigned both Adam and Eve jobs in which they would work together and rule over Paradise as a pair, their jobs are actually very different and correspond to their gender.

Old Testament views on Gender I would clarify which "Old Testament writers" have expressed this opinion, and if I cannot find evidence to support this sentence, then I would eliminate it entirely. I would also add how society and culture viewed and treated women during the times of the Old Testament and cite the evidence I would find in order to really illustrate the differences or similarities in the ways that the Bible actually represented gender politics of the time. Krmmiller (talk) 21:42, 11 February 2017 (UTC)