A Year of Biblical Womanhood

I read this for book club, otherwise I don't think I would've ever picked it up.

However I'm glad I did. I liked the premise and the set up of the book - diving deep in to the Bible to determine who a biblical woman is and how does that look in the modern age.
Each month had a different theme with principals and tasks to understand and apply the Bible to everyday life.

I liked the Bible stories and the adventures the author had in her attempt to be a Biblical woman. Some of my favorites were Chip, the pie meltdown, the tent in the front yard, and the monastary. I also appreciated her husband's journal entries.

The idea brought up questions regarding my own spiritual progress in terms of the Bible. I liked that she changed over the course of the year.

Only one question remained:
What was the obsession with her hair?

AMAZON

New York Times Bestseller. With just the right mixture of humor and insight, compassion and incredulity, A Year of Biblical Womanhood is an exercise in scriptural exploration and spiritual contemplation. What does God truly expect of women, and is there really a prescription for biblical womanhood? Come along with Evans as she looks for answers in the rich heritage of biblical heroines, models of grace, and all-around women of valor.

What is “biblical womanhood” . . . really?

Strong-willed and independent, Rachel Held Evans couldn’t sew a button on a blouse before she embarked on a radical life experiment—a year of biblical womanhood. Intrigued by the traditionalist resurgence that led many of her friends to abandon their careers to assume traditional gender roles in the home, Evans decides to try it for herself, vowing to take all of the Bible’s instructions for women as literally as possible for a year.

Pursuing a different virtue each month, Evans learns the hard way that her quest for biblical womanhood requires more than a “gentle and quiet spirit” (1 Peter 3:4). It means growing out her hair, making her own clothes, covering her head, obeying her husband, rising before dawn, abstaining from gossip, remaining silent in church, and even camping out in the front yard during her period.

See what happens when a thoroughly modern woman starts referring to her husband as “master” and “praises him at the city gate” with a homemade sign. Learn the insights she receives from an ongoing correspondence with an Orthodox Jewish woman, and find out what she discovers from her exchanges with a polygamist wife.  Join her as she wrestles with difficult passages of scripture that portray misogyny and violence against women.