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

4.0

I've been working my way through this list of women named, or sometimes just implied, in the Torah and the books concerning the throne. I had no idea there were so many women mentioned by name even when we don't hear that much about them. The idea of "sanctified imagination" is a very helpful one too. Professor Gafney is a Hebrew scholar and has translated many of the texts in this book. She also provides a fascinating appendix on the translation issues facing anyone doing translation plus some of the extra ones when you're translating Scripture. I am always fascinated by translating, and due to being bilingual spend quite a lot of time thinking about it, so I really enjoyed those thoughts too.