intuition (OT) ( wasRe: dreaming and remembering)

[Guest guest]

> However, in the Bible (just to touch on religion again), all the

> prophets were men, weren't they? Perhaps the Bible is a masculine

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> written by men, to be read by men... Just a thought.

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> José

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> Oh, J.C. ! Now you are flaunting your Biblical ignorance ;-)

There was Miriam, the sister of Moses (Exodus 15:30)--famous for her

song-writing abilities. Then there was Deborah the Prophetess

(Judges 4-5), an Israeli national leader. Then, in the New

Testament, there was (Luke 2), the 84-year old widow who was one

of the first to recognize the Christ Child. All of these ladies were

specifically referred to as being prophetic. The Bible was penned by

men, but it is not masculine. It is full of passages where women

were influential, both in positive and negative ways.

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> Rebekah

Oh, Rebekah, I`m sorry. I admit my Biblical ignorance. Rather than

*flaunting*, I was simply wondering. If the Bible isn`t masculine,

would you say it`s feminine, or maybe well balanced between the two

genders? My impression (though I may be wrong) is that women are so

to say smothered by men in many passages of the Bible, or in other

words, they`re often given the role of the eminence grise, if you see

what I mean.

Interestingly, in more *primitive* religions, women seem to exert

more explicit power. It`s said, for instance, that the curse of a man

is mostly ineffectual, while a woman`s is fatal and almost impossible

to be reverted. I expect women to have the same power with their

blessings.

Cheers,