Most of us think the Bible is from one world (Ancient Israel, Greco-Roman, etc) and that we are in another world (modern West, etc), and that moving the Bible from its world into our world requires a gentle art. Whether we affirm the redemptive trend is not what I mean in this context, but just the sheer difficulty at times of bringing the Bible forward. Now, there is another issue: some women grow up in worlds with more than the general difficulty of moving the Bible forward, but with a pervasive ethnic stereotype of how women should behave. |inline