February reading log

[kassia]

In the Wake of the Goddesses : Women, Culture and the Biblical Transformation of Pagan Myth by Tikva Frymer-Kensky
Did God Have a Wife? : Archaeology and Folk Religion in Ancient Israel by William G. Dever
Mother Gavrilia : The Ascetic of Love tr. Helen Anthony
Ancient Taboos and Gender Prejudice : Challenges for Orthodox Women and the Church by Leonie B. Liveris
A Translation of the Four Gospels from the Syriac of the Sinaitic Palimpsest by Agnes Smith Lewis
The Commentaries of Isho'dad of Merv - Vol. I : The Gospels in English tr. Margaret Dunlop Gibson
When Women Were Priests : Women's Leadership in the Early Church & the Scandal of their Subordination in the Rise of Christianity by Karen Jo Torjesen
Turning the Wheel : American Women Creating the New Buddhism by Sandy Boucher
Writing a Woman's Life by Carolyn G. Heilbrun
Mission of Friar William of Rubruck : His Journey to the Court of the Great Khan Mungke tr. Peter Jackson

Comments

[merton-lover.livejournal.com]

I bought the Torjesen the last time I was at Powell's in Portland but haven't yet read it cover to cover. In fact, all I can remember about it at the moment is that the cover is quite pretty.

[elbren]

It's not really so much about the historical evidence of women priests. It's mostly about patriarchalist mechanisms of marginalizing women. Interesting, serious, important, valuable, but not well-represented by the title.

[merton-lover.livejournal.com]

Grr. Not what I wanted.

[elbren]

What you want is probably

Women deacons in the Orthodox Church : called to holiness and ministry by Kyriaki Karidoyanes FitzGerald