Synopsis: This lively commentary encompasses four major books focusing on women in the Hebrew Bible and Apocrypha. Each section in the volume addresses the biblical text in detail, and draws connections from the world of ancient audiences to that of present-day readers. Wolfe's research is motivated by the usual inquiries of biblical scholarship, as well as the questions raised by the many church Bible study groups she has taught. Clergy and laity, students and scholars will benefit from these contemporarily relevant reflections on Ruth, Esther, Song of Songs and Judith. Ruth: The foreign...

Dreams really can come true... all it takes is a little imagination and never giving up That's what Helen the Heron learns as she strives to be a dancing Hooper on World Hoop day... and with her Uncle George encouraging her... anything is possible