Reading Notes: Bible Women Reading A

I didn't grow up in a religious household, but I have always been interested in Bible stories, much like I am about mythologies around the world. Since I'm always down to learn about ladies in literature, for this week I read the Bible Women that's in our archives.

1. Characters

All the character's stories combined, and that's interesting to me because it would make it easier to combine the stories if I feel that I want to write about more than one in my retelling. However, the characters are sort of mansplained (yes, that is an actual word, and no, I am not correcting it). They are written in a male point of view and I think that I would make them more three dimensional, and give them more personality than they do in the stories.

2. Language

The language is quite old, and it really takes away from the story. By making the language more modern, the readers will be more involved in the story and it will really help to let the readers understand what is going on. Not only that, but it makes the text more relatable to the audience.

3. Scenery 

There is information provided for in the stories that allows readers to assume that the setting is in the Middle East, but there really isn't any description of where they are. I would like there to be a little bit more scenery described in the text in order to create a better picture of the story and to understand how the character interact within their environments.

4. Portrayal of characters

A lot of the women are seen as secondary, background characters in the Bible. I want to make them the key figures within their story, to make sure that the readers understand that they are just as important to the tale as their male counterparts.

Princess Bride Bible verse meme. Found on QuickMeme.

Women of the Bible, from the King James Bible; link to the online reading.