This powerful book is forcing the Church to re-think what the Bible says about women
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Emma Fowle2021-10-07T08:41:00
Dr Beth Allison Barr’s The Making of Biblical Womanhood is in equal parts, memoir, history lesson, manifesto and biblical study, says our reviewer
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