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Endnote 5 - The Bible Within the Bible

See Elizabeth Johnson, She Who Is: The Mystery of God in Feminist Theological Discourse (New York: Crossroads, 1994); also my column, “Moving Beyond Masculine Metaphors,” BR 10:05.

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Endnote 4 - The Bible Within the Bible

Among many books and articles that could be cited, special mention should be made of Phyllis Trible’s elegant and pathbreaking book God and the Rhetoric of Sexuality (Philadelphia: Fortress, 1978).

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Endnote 3 - The Bible Within the Bible

Robert McAfee Brown, Theology in a New Key: Responding to Liberation Themes (Philadelphia: Westminster, 1978), pp. 88, 90. Quoted by Jon Levenson, The Hebrew Bible, the Old Testament, and Historical Criticism (Louisville: Westminster/John Knox, 1993). Levenson gives an incisive criticism of this theological interpretation in the chapter “Exodus and Liberation,” pp. 127–183.

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Endnote 2 - The Bible Within the Bible

J. Matthew Ashley, “The New Evangelization,” The Ecumenist 3:3 (July–September 1996), pp. 54f.

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Endnote 1 - The Bible Within the Bible

Among Latin American interpreters, see, for instance, J.S. Croatto, Exodus: A Hermeneutics of Freedom, trans. Salvator Attanasio (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1981).

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Endnote 1 - Genesis in Reverse: The Hidden Meaning of the Sistine Chapel Ceiling

Kenneth Clark, The Horizon Book of the Renaissance (New York: American Heritage, 1985), p. 111.

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Endnote 9 - Michelangelo’s Masterpiece Reclaimed

A brief but entertaining approach to this “single most important art event of the century” can be found in Waldemar Januszczak’s book Sayonara Michelangelo: The Sistine Chapel Restored and Repackaged (Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1990).