(probably not up your alley, but I might as well get the point here!) I Suffer Not a Woman by the Clark Kroegers 4+ stars

[Karin]

This is my third time reading this book, but the first time I'm writing a review. I read it at least once before 2013 which is when I first joined an online book site.

Research = 5 stars
Necessity of this work = 5 stars
Hermeneutics = 4.5 stars
Readability outside of the Academic realm - 3 stars

This was a long overdue, deep study and analysis of a passage that has traditionally been used to suppress women despite over 100 instances of faithful women doing exactly the sorts of things they are told not to do here. However, to really understand this takes a long look at scripture, archaelogy as well as many primary source documents. As for me (view spoiler)[I have a long background in Biblical research and study, but don't go into that on GR since I discuss/debate neither religion nor politics online and generally avoid arguing either of those IRL as I have had far more than enough of all of that coming from a family with a very large range of beliefs and political slants. (hide spoiler)] Please note that

In a grossly oversimplified nutshell, the late Clark Kroegers (this has two authors--the name you can't see is Dr. Catherine Clark Kroeger who was a leading figure in the very vital Biblical egalitarian movement in the 20th C) this is saying that women can be saved/made whole even if they have one or more children, but that they aren't to claim that Eve was made first plus a few other things (note that the serpent was often worshipped or at least respected, plus more.)