Bad Girls of the Bible is a book devoted to ten women in the Bible. The chapter I read last night focused on the nameless Samaritan woman who met Jesus at the well. Each chapter begins with a vignette which modernizes the particular Bible story; this particular chapter depicts the Samaritan woman as Crystal, a bartender with five divorces and a live-in-lover named Mick, who meets a mysterious stranger in her bar. After the story, the chapter breaks down each verse of the woman's story and includes social commentary and applicable advice for readers to follow today.
I had heard about this book (and its sequels) several years ago, but I'd never pursued reading it until I went to Book Jungle a couple of days ago. (Instead of paying $16 for it at a Christian bookstore, I only had to pay $3 from this quaint used bookstore.) Once I purchased it, I decided I would start using it as my nightly devotional book. So far my discipline in reading its detailed chapters has only led me through Eve's and Lot's wife's chapters.
Making connections and tapping into my prior knowledge for the biblical study portion of the chapter, I had already known the Samaritan woman's story from Sunday School. More recently, I'd heard her story through an online biblically based addiction-breaking program. I visualized the vignette as Crystal moved through the bar and argued with the stranger. I reread certain verse portions of the text so I could experience more context (because the author tends to break up certain phrases within verses to provide commentary).
Higgs, L. (1999). Bad girls of the bible: And what we can learn from them. Colorado Springs, CO: Waterbook Press.
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