{"product_id":"9780814651568","title":"Women of Bible Lands: A Pilgrimage to Compassion and Wisdom","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWomen of Bible Lands\u003c\/i\u003e is an anthology of biblical and early stories about Jewish, Christian, and Muslim women from the nineteenth century B.C.E. to the ninth centuryC.E. Ancient words and journeys strengthen modern readers for a challenging pilgrimage from the head to the heart as they travel in spirit through the Holy Land to Greece, Turkey, and North Africa. Kirk's book, which is the first guide book to biblical sites associated with women, not only fills a void, but does so in an inspirational and imaginative way.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePart One: Reclaiming Women's Stories and Journeys\u003c\/i\u003e discusses the types of women that have been remembered in the Christian tradition and examines the scarcity of women's writings and the possibilities of women's oral tradition within the Bible and other early sources. Chapters in Part One are: Shards and Stories,\" *'As a Mother Hen Gathers Her Brood Under Her Wings,'- *The Pilgrimage to the Womb of Compassion, - *Seeking the True Cross, Seeking the True Helena, - *Ascetic Life, an Inner Journey; Pala and Egeria, Their Outer and Inner Journeys, - and *Guides for Reading. - \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePart Two: Stories, Sites, and Maps\u003c\/i\u003e includes introductions to the sites, maps, information about or by women or female images of God, and selections from the Bible or an early Hebrew, Greek, Latin, Coptic, Syriac, or Arabic text. Chapters in Part Two are: *The Old City of Jerusalem, - *Other Sites in Jerusalem, - *Sites in Israel and Palestine, - *Sinai, Egypt, and Tunisia, - *Iran, Iraq, Jordan, - *Lebanon and Syria, - *Greece and the Mediterranean Islands, - and *Turkey. - \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMartha Ann Kirk, CCVI, ThD, is professor of religious studies at the University of the Incarnate Word in San Antonio, Texas, and a recent recipient of the Texas Pax Christi 2005 award. She led several study tours to the Holy Land and was a research scholar at Tantur Ecumenical Institute, Jerusalem. Kirk has written entries for \u003c\/i\u003eWorship Music\u003ci\u003e published by Liturgical Press and is the author of *Liturgical Drama, - published in the \u003c\/i\u003eCollegeville Catholic Reference Library\u003ci\u003e on CD-ROM and \u003c\/i\u003eThe New Dictionary of Sacramental Worship\u003ci\u003e by Liturgical Press. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Liturgical Press, The","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47021740654832,"sku":"9780814651568","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780814651568_p0.jpg?v=1763745853","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780814651568","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}