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Newsweek cover story for December 8, 2003, “Women in the Bible.”

bq.. Female Scholars Unearth Narratives Overlooked for Centuries to Reinterpret The Role of Women in The Bible
_’They’re No Longer Just Cleaned Up or Romanticized Stories, But Rigorously Historical, Imaginative, Cross-Cultural Collections,’ Says Academic_

Of some 3,000 characters named in the Bible, fewer than 10 percent are women and today female scholars are trying to redress the imbalance by unearthing narratives that have been overlooked for centuries and reinterpreting more-familiar stories, including Mary Magdalene’s and even the story of Eve, report Senior Editor Barbara Kantrowitz and Correspondent Anne Underwood in the December 8 Newsweek cover story (on newsstands Monday, December 1).

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