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Tuesday, October 16, 2012
Make your own clothes, don't touch your husband and sleep outside
A blogger who spent one year following all of the Bible’s instructions for women, from making her own clothes to 'submitting' to her husband, has now written a book about her experience.
Rachel Held Evans’ book, A Year of Biblical Womanhood, chronicles her 12 month attempt to obey the Bible's commandments for women.
The Bible gives hundreds of rules for women to follow, both explicit and implied, in the Old Testament and the New.
For example, women should dress modestly, submit to their husbands - passages of the Bible insist that husbands are the masters of their wives - and remove themselves from their communities while menstruating.
Leviticus Chapters 15 to 18 has a passage detailing rules for women to live by - with particularly stringent rules coming into play while the woman is menstruating, stemming from the theory that women on their periods are untouchable.
During the days she was menstruating over the course of the year, the Tennessee-based writer, 31, a Christian who describes herself as 'liberated', stayed home from church, carried around a seat cushion to avoid sitting on chairs outside her home, abstained from s**x and touching her husband, grew her hair out and slept in a tent.
Before embarking on the 12-month experiment Mrs Evans wrote on her blog: 'Starting this month, I will commit one year of my life to following all of the Bible’s instructions for women as literally as possible.
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