The Woman’s Bible

Elizabeth Cady Stanton is best known for her work with Susan B. Anthony as co-founder of the National Woman Suffrage Association.

I was surprised to find out, in a recent conversation with Tyne Daly, that she encountered her greatest emnity for The Woman’s Bible, a critique of women’s treatment by religion. An excerpt can be found here. The book is still available on Amazon and is on my must-buy list.

All the recent controversy about what the Bible did and did not say about marriage makes me want to know what the Bible did and did not say about women. And about how it has been translated, reinterpreted, used and misused through the ages.

Discovering this compilation/critique makes me think about bravery. And scholarship. And stepping forward.

Would I have the patience, perseverance and bravery to complete a work like this?

Would you?