Female Voices From The Bible

By John Crawford

Female Voices from the Bible contains poems of rhyme and free verse about various women who proved themselves of courage and action to accomplish an act that others could not. In this volume, we see pictures of daring, faithful, prayerful women leading the way, often when a man would not. In a time when it was supposed to be a man's world, women proved that they had the motive, the strength, and the willingness to accomplish what needed to be done. Today's movement among women in leadership can be seen first in females of the Bible.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
• Release date: Sep 18, 2017
• ISBN: 9781640792319

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Female Voices

from the

Bible

John W. Crawford

ISBN 978-1-64079-230-2 (Paperback)

ISBN 978-1-64079-231-9 (Digital)

Copyright © 2017 by John W. Crawford

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John W. Crawford, Biography

John W. Crawford, professor emeritus of Henderson State University (Arkansas), is a retired educator, having taught high school classes in Greene County, Iowa, and having taught college classes in literature and writing at Clinton College (Iowa), Oklahoma State University, and Henderson State University (Arkansas). He has earned degrees in the arts and education from Texarkana College (Texas), AA, 1956; Ouachita Baptist University (Arkansas), BA, and BSE, 1959; Drake University (Iowa), MSE, 1962, and Oklahoma State University, EdD in Renaissance Studies, 1968.

Crawford has four academic books published in the field of literature: Romantic Criticism of Shakespearian Drama, University of Salzburg (Austria), 1968; Discourse: Essays in English and American Literature, Ropodi Press (Amsterdam), 1978; Early Shakespearean Actresses, Peter Lang (New York), and The Learning, Wit and Wisdom of Shakespeare’s Renaissance Women, Edwin Mellen Press (Lewiston, NY), 1997. He has three books of poetry published: Making the Connection, Mellen Press (New York), 1989; I Have Become Familiar with the Rain, Mellen Press (New York), 1995, and French Quarter at Eight, Publish Today (Maryland), 2008.

Crawford has read his essays and poetry at numerous academic venues regionally and nationally.

Dedication

I dedicate this volume of poetry to my late Irish grandmother, Effie Ada O’Neal Phillips, and to the late Mrs. Becky Sherman, a black domestic friend of the family, who both raised me in a rural community called Hicks, outside of our hometown of Ashdown, Arkansas. When my mom, Allie B. Phillips, passed on twelve hours after my birth on September 2, Becky came and helped my grandmother, who was still recuperating from her last birth of her last son. Both women were wise beyond their years, and both served as my mentors. Proverbs 31: "Who can find a virtuous woman, for