Articles by Karen Belin
Karen D. Belin, a lifelong resident of New York City, is a second year Master of Divinity student at New York Theological Seminary and a graduate from Herbert H. Lehman College of the City University of New York with a baccalaureate degree in English and Professional Writing. She has aspirations of becoming an author and composer of spiritual books, songs, and various publications.
Reviewed by Karen D. Belin
Prophets highlighted in scripture, exclusive of a few prophetesses, are primarily men, and in many instances, biblical prophecies and psalms by unknown authors are assumed to be men. However, can established writings in the canon be reassigned to prophetesses, who we know existed in ancient times, but allegedly have no record of? Are we mistakenly identifying scriptural prose and songs as being that of men? Nancy C. Lee, addresses ideas such as these and explores biblical language, poetry, and phonetics in order to distinguish female voices embedded within scripture in an attempt to discover unbeknown to us, female prophetic voices traditionally presumed to be predominantly male.
