Battered Love Karen A. Pomerinke Cross-national comparisons suggest that America's

Cross-national comparisons suggest that America's early reliance on women teachers quickened and extended the reach of schools across the nations social classes

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Boyd argues that we must take seriously the full range of Scripture as inspired

participatory budgeting involves spending real public money on the priorities that the community identifies

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Battered Love Karen A. Pomerinke Cross-national comparisons suggest that America'sWeems's pioneering study explores the puzzling ways in which the Hebrew prophets' portrayals of divine love, compassion, and conventional commitment often became associated with battery, infidelity, and the rape and mutilation of women. She wrestles with the prophets' rhetoric and sexual metaphors to uncover Israelite social structures, asking, "What is implied about women, men, and God by the language that the prophets use to describe the covenant