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Women and Gender in the Bible and the Biblical World: Editorial Introduction

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  • “So God created the human in his image, in the image of God he created it; male and female he created them.”[2]. Most translations render this verse in the masculine: “So God created the human in his image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them,” but this is a somewhat questionable translation

  • Our stubborn history of translating that verse in the masculine has set in stone an ideology in which men are created first and women second.[4]

  • Women and Gender in the Bible and the Biblical World: Editorial Introduction 707 apex and women are secondary, but they are frequently used to enforce an ideology that gender is a binary construct challenging and excluding the idea that there exists a multiplicity of genders

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Introduction

“So God created the human in his image, in the image of God he created it; male and female he created them.”[2]. Our aim in curating this special issue of Open Theology was to encourage a multiplicity of voices and a range of responses which might consider a wide variety of themes and topics, but which would all connect via a singular focus: that of women and gender in the Bible and the biblical world in ways which speak to a history of both the subjugation and liberation of women’s voices from the pages of the Bible.

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