The word according to Eve : women and the Bible in ancient times and our own
/ Cullen Murphy
- New York : Houghton Mifflin Company , 1999, c1998.
- xiii, 302 p. ; 22 cm.
Today, due to changing culture and archaeological and historical discoveries, those who read the Bible query the role that male scholars have traditionally assigned to women. Here a prominent journalist reports on what the latest scholarship tells us about the women in Holy Writ, and the women, ancient and modern, who have been left out of it.