The guest speaker today I thought was a refreshing change of pace, I liked the fact that while we did drift around to several parts of the Bible, we maintained one theme throughout. The specificity of the class topic I think allowed us to drive a bit deeper into the content and context of how women are depicted in the Bible. I thought the distinction between the Feminine and Women rolls to be an accurate one. Because the implications of each one are symbol and social respectively. This is important to consider because the Bible is to be looked at as stories and characters in stories. And sometimes they are to be taken at face value and sometimes not. Either way both of these types of women teach us something, a moral.
One idea that really stuck with me even after I left the classroom, was the notion that gender is about roles. The simplicity of this statement is in fact so complex. What confuses me first about this is that if gender is concerned our roles doesn't that make it about our places in society and not what distinguishes us as individuals? I'm not really sure where I'm going with this. Perhaps I'll blog again later.
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