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ABOUT ELIZABETH FLETCHER I
attended Catholic schools and then the University of Sydney, Australia.
My first degree was in History and Modern Languages, and I became a
schoolteacher. I agreed to teach Religious Studies, which can be taken
as a University entrance subject in Australia, but I had no real
qualifications and soon found I was out of my depth - attending church
regularly did not prepare me for teaching Religion to high school
students. So I went back to University and gained advanced
qualifications in this area. I then taught Religious Education and wrote textbooks for many years in Australian schools. Along the way I was surprised to find there was hardly anything on the subject of women in the Bible. The books that teachers used were either scholarly and out of the reach of a normal student, or cloyingly sentimental and sometimes quite inaccurate as well. I approached Harper Collins with a book proposal and they published 'Women in the Bible' in 1997. After my husband died, I moved out of teaching into full-time writing. I wrote and edited a variety of Religion textbooks, and was one of the team of three people who developed the Religious Education Curriculum now used extensively throughout Australia. But my chief interest was always Biblical Studies. When 'Women in the Bible' went out of print and the copyright reverted to me, I put the whole of the book on the Web as www.womeninthebible.net My website was able to reach far more people than my book ever did, so I decided to devote myself to writing full-time for the Web. I
am interviewed on national radio or talk-back programs whenever there is
a ruckus about something to do with the Bible and women, as there was
when 'The Da Vinci Code' was published. I
have two grown-up children and four rambunctious little grandsons. Let
me know if you have suggestions for the website. Elizabeth Fletcher
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