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He challenges them, and Adam blames the woman, "whom thou gavest to me to
be with me, she gave me of the tree and I did eat" (Genesis 3:12). Yahweh turn^
to the woman, and she blames the serpent. Then Yahweh pronounces three ...
He challenges them, and Adam blames the woman, "whom thou gavest to me to
be with me, she gave me of the tree and I did eat" (Genesis 3:12). Yahweh turn^
to the woman, and she blames the serpent. Then Yahweh pronounces three ...
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In a sermon, he lashed out at the husbands in his congregation for their hypocrisy
: How wouldst thou have this thy wife? — I will have her an honest woman — and
thou art dishonest: that again is not well. ... I would have her temperate and ...
In a sermon, he lashed out at the husbands in his congregation for their hypocrisy
: How wouldst thou have this thy wife? — I will have her an honest woman — and
thou art dishonest: that again is not well. ... I would have her temperate and ...
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lullabies: "Since my son thou art, with my nursery rhymes will I soothe thee. . . . Lo
, thou art with me, and whole thou art hidden in thy father. All heights of heaven
are full of thy majesty, and yet my bosom is not too straitened for thee. . . ."8 Milk ...
lullabies: "Since my son thou art, with my nursery rhymes will I soothe thee. . . . Lo
, thou art with me, and whole thou art hidden in thy father. All heights of heaven
are full of thy majesty, and yet my bosom is not too straitened for thee. . . ."8 Milk ...
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Contents
MARY IN THE GOSPELS | 3 |
MARY IN THE APOCRYPHA | 25 |
VIRGIN BIRTH | 34 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Alone of All Her Sex: The Myth and the Cult of the Virgin Mary A Wallaby book |
| Author | Marina Warner |
| Publisher | Pocket Books, 1978 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 14 Nov 2009 |
| ISBN | 0671790110, 9780671790110 |
| Length | 400 pages |
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