S9 Ep968: The Making of Biblical Womanhood: Dr. Beth Allison Barr
Theology in the Raw
Theology in the Raw
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🗓️ 2 May 2022
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Summary
Dr. Beth Allison Barr is Professor History and Associate Dean of Graduate Studies at Baylor University. She received her B.A. from Baylor University and her M.A. and Ph.D. in Medieval History from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her research focuses primarily on women and gender identity in late medieval England, how the advent of Protestantism affected women in Christianity, and medieval attitudes towards women in sermons across the Reformation era. Beth is the author of several books including her most recent highly acclaimed book The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Womanhood Became Gospel Truth, which is the focus of our conversation.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, friends. Welcome back to another episode of Theology in the Rah. My guest today is the |
| 0:04.8 | one and only Dr. Beth Allison Bar. Dr. Bar received her MA and PhD in medieval history from the |
| 0:10.8 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her research focuses primarily on women and gender |
| 0:15.8 | identity in late medieval England and how the advent of Protestantism affected women in Christianity. |
| 0:22.0 | She is the author of the very provocative and very well-selling book The Making of Biblical |
| 0:30.2 | Womanhood, How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth. I just got done reading this book. |
| 0:36.5 | I was and I was so excited to talk to Beth. I really enjoyed this conversation. There's a lot |
| 0:41.5 | to mow over. Beth was a delight to talk to and her book is quite provocative. So I hope you've |
| 0:48.1 | read the book. If not, pick up your copy. The link is in the show notes and without further |
| 0:52.6 | ado, please welcome to the show with the one and only Dr. Beth Allison Bar. |
| 1:04.2 | All right, hey, friends. I'm here with Beth Allison Bar. I'm so excited about this podcast. We |
| 1:08.8 | scheduled this several months ago and when I scheduled the podcast, I had your book on my desk |
| 1:14.4 | because I've been wanting to read it and then I scheduled it. I'm like, all right, now I have to |
| 1:18.8 | read it. I'm so glad I did. Your book is killing it. I mean, it's really created some waves, right? I mean, |
| 1:27.2 | yes, it has been a surprise. This week is the one-year anniversary of the release of the book and |
| 1:32.6 | it's just really wild to think about what life was like a year ago versus what life is like now. |
| 1:39.9 | So it's been, I just actually released the post script. I don't know if you've seen that. |
| 1:44.7 | I just saw it on Twitter that you really say, yeah. Yeah, I released it yesterday, but it, |
| 1:50.0 | you know, I'm so glad the book is doing. Everybody wants to be read, but more importantly, |
| 1:55.9 | this book was a book that I felt really called to write. So I'm really glad people are reading it. |
| 2:02.2 | I did not expect them to start reading it so quickly in such large numbers. |
| 2:07.2 | That's really true. I don't do it a lot, but every now and then, you know, I want to, |
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