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Afterparties is a short story collection by writer Anthony Veasna So, published in 2021 by Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins. The collection won the National Book Critics Circle's John Leonard Prize for Best First Book and the Ferro-Grumley Award , which is awarded to LGBTQ fiction.
Joanna – One of the women who went to prepare Jesus' body for burial. Luke [90] Jochebed – Mother of Moses, Aaron, and Miriam. Exodus, Numbers [91] [92] Judith – Hittite wife of Esau. Genesis [93] Judith, the heroine of the deuterocanonical Book of Judith [94] Julia – Minor character in the new testament Romans [95]
Anthony Veasna So (February 20, 1992 – December 8, 2020) was an American writer. His short stories were described by The New York Times as "crackling, kinetic and darkly comedic" and often drew from his upbringing as a child of Cambodian immigrants.
Jesus held women personally responsible for their own behavior as seen in his dealings with the woman at the well (John 4:16–18), the woman taken in adultery (John 8:10–11), and the sinful woman who anointed his feet (Luke 7:44–50 and the other three gospels). Jesus dealt with each as having the personal freedom and enough self ...
Her areas of specialization included Assyriology and Sumerology, biblical studies, Jewish studies, and women and religion.Her most recent books are "Reading the Women of the Bible," which received a Koret Jewish Book Award in 2002 and a National Jewish Book Award in 2003; [2] In the Wake of the Goddesses: Women, Culture and the Biblical Transformation of Pagan Myth; and Motherprayer: The ...
The Bible does not say whether she had encountered Jesus in person prior to this. Neither does the Bible disclose the nature of her sin. Women of the time had few options to support themselves financially; thus, her sin may have been prostitution. Had she been an adulteress, she would have been stoned.
The Woman's Bible is a two-part non-fiction book, written by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and a committee of 26 women, published in 1895 and 1898 to challenge the traditional position of religious orthodoxy that woman should be subservient to man. [1]
Sue Davis, The Woman's Bible: Religion and the Oppression of Women, in The Political Thought of Elizabeth Cady Stanton: Women's Rights and the American Political Traditions Preface: From The Woman's Bible to Gender and Law , the introduction to Gender and Law in the Hebrew Bible and the Ancient Near East , edited by Victor H. Matthews, Bernard ...