Jolie N’s Reviews > The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth > Status Update

“The early modern English Bible was translated in a context that politically, legally, economically, and socially obscured women behind the identities of their husbands and fathers. The world of early modern England treated women as dependent on men, and this cultural attitude was translated into the English Bible.”

“People are products of the world in which they live, and translators are no exception. What any translator or interpreter brings to the Bible influences how we understand the Bible.”