The story of Jesus of Nazareth has been called "the greatest story ever told;" but what role do women play in that story? In No Longer Silent; author Susan Dehn Matthews attempts to highlight the women in the Gospels and provide the background behind those important women.Matthews starts by noting that women in the Gospels were deliberately dis-empowered in order to maintain their presumed dependence; both in Scripture and in society. She then gives a voice to the minds and hearts of the women of the gospels who have been marginalized or ignored altogether. As she writes; "Each women whose story is recounted here is remarkable precisely because; through the power of an encounter with Jesus; she discovered within herself the Divine energy that allowed her to offer her unique gift to the world." Some of the women Matthews writes about include: Elizabeth Mary of Nazareth Mary at the Wedding of Cana The widowed mother of Nain The woman accused The mother of James and John The sisters of Lazarus The wife of Pilate Mary Magdalene Joanna
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3 of 7 people found the following review helpful. State policies and women in the Middle eastBy Riham SalehThe book insists that women in the Middle Eat must be studie through the differing plitical projects on nation-sate; with their distinct histories; relatioship to colonialism and the West; class politics; ideological uses of an Islamic idiom; and struggles over the roleof Islamic law in state legal appartues. Linking attemptsat family reform and women's rights to the efforts of the modern state to break up the autonomy of local kin roups and thus enhancetheir own power; to mobilize labor forces or political constituencies to meet national needs; or most recently to meet the requirments of international develoment agencies.
