Miriam Talks Back Book

Poetic imaginative monologues that invite the female characters in the Hebrew Scriptures to speak.

Have you ever wondered what the women of the Hebrew Scriptures really thought? Hang on—Lyons has spent a long time thinking about it.

She has been thinking about—almost living with—the female characters in the Hebrew Scriptures for more than twenty years. Her interest in them began as a summer project. She decided to read about them and noticed that many of them had no name. As a woman and a feminist, she found this patriarchal omission distressing. What emerged is 77 imaginative, poetic stories filling the gap.