A Year of Biblical Womanhood: How a Liberated Woman Found Herself Sitting on Her Roof, Covering Her Head, and Calling Her Husband “Master” by Rachel Held Evans

Rated at 4.03 on Amazon with over 17,000 ratings and almost 2,000 reviews. One of the five-star reviews on Amazon was “Awesome book! I loved everything about it. The author spent a year going through the Bible and trying to live like a Biblical woman should. Through this process she really understands that there isn’t just one way to be a Biblical woman. She laughs and cries and learns about her own relationship with God. Loved hearing her experiences with the different people she met through her year.”

The book has biblical insights for both men and women, and despite the title and humour, is well researched, drawing on a wide range of sources, including insights from a modern Jewish woman who practices her faith.

While Rachel challenges some of the expectations of “Biblical Womanhood,” particularly within the American evangelical Church, she does so with respect. Taking comfort that Jesus himself got into trouble for his own selective literalism, for example, healing on the Sabbath, touching the untouchables and associating with tax collectors and prostitutes.

And did you know about the female apostle Junia and attempts to turn her into a man….?