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Women's Rights and the Bible: Implications for Christian Ethics and Social Policy. By Richard H. Hiers. Pickwick Publications2012. Pp. 120. $18.00. ISBN: 1-610-97627-4.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 April 2015

Susan J. Stabile
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Journal of Law and Religion , Volume 28 , Issue 2 , January 2013 , pp. 573 - 578
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Copyright © Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University 2013

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1. As an indication of how little many Christians hear about these women, in Catholic Masses, passages from Ruth and Naomi appear in only two weekday readings in every three-year cycle and Esther gets only one weekday reading every three years.

2. See, e.g., Eph 5:22-23 (“Wives, be subject to your husbands … for the husband is the head of the wife”); 1 Cor 14:34-35 (“Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak”); Titus 2:3-5 (advising women to be “submissive to their husbands”); 1 Pet 3:1-7 (women appropriately adorn themselves "by accepting the authority of their husbands”).