A review by lmwanak
Womanist Midrash: A Reintroduction to the Women of the Torah and the Throne by Wilda C. Gafney

challenging informative inspiring slow-paced

5.0

This blew my mind in so many ways! I plan to use this as a womanist  commentary for the first five books of the Bible. It took a long time for me to read it, partly because it is academic, but mostly because I had to sit with many of the women Gafney honors by calling out, named or not. Some of the stories were very hard to read, and Gafney does not try to spin their hardship into a noble, redemption thing. Instead, she stands with them and question why.

This book helped me pick up the Bible again and approach it with a womanist lens. I will definitely get Gafney's other works.
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