Over several decades of studying the Old Testament (and occasionally leading a short class on one of the books), I have developed a collection of favorite commentators, such as Derek Kidner and Robert Alter. Among my favorites are two women, more than half-a-century apart.
Joyce Baldwin has her own Wikipedia page. She is in my parents' generation and I first became aware of her while working through her commentary on Daniel. I have also used the commentary by Joyce Baldwin in Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi: An Introduction & Commentary (The Tyndale Old Testament Commentary Series) 1981. In reading another commentary on the minor prophets, I was impressed to discover that the author (I forget who) kept citing Baldwin for a lot of his claims about the text. So even if she was not the author of that commentary, her thoughts were channeled through it.
More recently I worked through an excellent online course by Carmen Imes. Imes in an engaging teacher and a scholar on Old Testament works. (I think Exodus was the subject of her doctoral dissertation.) I have since followed Dr. Imes on Facebook here. I have recently been working through her book Becoming God's Family, which, naturally enough, begins with the Old Testament families and covenants.
Whether reading about Joyce Baldwin or listening to Carmen Imes -- if one is alert -- one can pick up issues related to gifted women attempting to work out God's calling within the structures of the church.
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